Explain This Away, Skeptics: Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than We Feared
April 28, 2008 · Print This Article
The conservation group WWF has found that arctic ice is melting even faster than previously thought. The recent acceleration of melting in the Greenland Ice Sheet wasn’t accurately predicted by experts, who are now shocked at the gravity of the situation.
From Reuters:
The Greenland Ice Sheet — with an ice volume of about 2.9 million cubic kilometers — is shrinking at a fast pace and “could contribute much more than previously estimated to global sea-level rise during the 21st century,” the WWF said.
It also said that Arctic warming has reduced both the area and thickness of the northern region’s multi-year sea ice, making it more prone to summer thaw.
Many climate change scientists have inadequately considered the drivers of such trends, such as interactions between sea ice thickness and water temperature, according to WWF.
What this means to us is simple: further heating of the Earth. The WWF has said that climate change in the arctic is already dramatically affecting ecology in the region and has called on arctic nations such as Russia, Norway and Canada to start working together for real change.
This is bad, bad news. But before we get all serious and mull over the weight of this situation and what it means for our planet’s future, I just want to say BAM! IN YOUR FACE, GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS!
Link [Reuters]
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Ok, I will try to explain it away.
You should google the following:
“basal meltwater Greenland”
And you may find articles like this and learn something new.
“High Geothermal Heat Flow, Basal Melt, and the Origin of Rapid Ice Flow in Central Greenland”
Unless you are too closed minded to do a little more research.
Taylor
Sure, that’s easy. The doomsday predictors are as good at prognostication as are economists who missed the collapse of the U.S. housing market, the rise of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil. Some people just never get it right.