Greenland shows troubling effect of global warming
Lewis DiuguidEveryone on the planet should be disturbed by the ice melt taking place on Greenland.
Satellite images from NASA show an unprecedented melting of the ice. The photos taken from space show the majority of the Greenland’s ground covered by ice on July 8.
On that date about 40 percent of the ice sheet had thawed at or near the surface, The Associated Press reported. But just four days later on July 12, the melting had rapidly increased so that 97 percent of the ice sheet on the surface had disappeared.
In Kansas City and throughout the United States’ bread basket, temperatures have stayed stuck above 100 degrees for the high. A heat wave also has done in the ice on Greenland. That’s not good because food and energy prices will soar like the mercury.
But it also isn’t good for the planet because that extra water will diminish the land mass of island nations and shorelines worldwide.
But the added water also will affect weather patterns. We’ve not seen the worst effects yet.
And heaven help us if human activity, which is heating up the planet, takes our fragile ecosystem beyond the point of no return.
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 4 weeks agoDRUM, DRUM, DRUM…..
We now have another “expert” on climate… You need to stick to writing about victimhood lewis….
JR Beillenhouser
10 months, 4 weeks ago“Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time,” says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data. “But if we continue to observe melting events like this in upcoming years, it will be worrisome.”
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html
Chicken Little Lewis is at it again. Several years ago the north polar ice was the cause for concern. It has returned to normal. The south pole ice is at record levels. England is having one of it’s coldest and wettest summers on record. In global terms we have had an increase in levels considered normal over the last 15 years.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/02/08/earths-polar-ice-melting-less-than-thought
Try an at least do some research.
Sybil Noble
10 months, 3 weeks agoI agree, Lewis…..
Mark Hastert
10 months, 3 weeks agoIt’s increasingly evident that it’s too late to avoid climate change. We’ll just have to adopt adaptive strategies. We have to resign ourselves to the fact that coastal areas will be flooded, Pacific island nations will disappear beneath the waves, and Venice will be lost unless it builds higher sea walls. Oklahoma and Kansas will be the new arid deserts.We’ll have more tornadoes.
But heck! It’ll generate construction jobs, we’ll be able to grow crops in Canada that we now can’t and the Northwest passage will be open year round. I’ll be able to play golf here in KC in January. The Royals can add another 50 games to their schedule (oops, that belongs in the down side category).
Steven Fetter
66223
10 months, 3 weeks agoAlternative predictions:
Kansas and Oklahoma will continue to be highly productive agricultural states, leading the world in the production of wheat. It will,however, be unlikely that KC will go anther 24 years until the next drought. The 2012 drought snapped the longest recorded streak of drought free years in the metro area.
Tornadoes will continue to be a threat, even though the numbers of tornadoes has actually diminished in the past 5 years.
Coastal areas will continue in their same dimensions as today and will continue to be the leading population growth areas in the country. Also, the real estate will continue to be the most valuable.
Venice and the Pacific islands will still be here after we are long gone.
And now, going way out on a limb, the Royals wii win the world series in the next 5 years. OK, I am entitled to the same fantasies as the “humans generating carbon causes runaway warming” crowd.
George Hunsucker
Northland
10 months, 3 weeks agoOh, oh…. looks like we have ANOTHER earth to lewis moment here, #26:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/26/skeptics-put-freeze-on-nasa-hot-air-about-greenland-ice/
JR Beillenhouser
10 months, 3 weeks agohttp://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/history-of-how-this-fraud-was-perpetrated/
James Hansen own model in 1988 showed what effect CO2 would have on the atmosphere and temperatures. He showed several possible scenarios. We are currently lining up with the “cut CO2 emissions drastically” curve even though we have increased dramatically the CO2 in the atmosphere. This simply means that increasing the CO2 has little or no affect on temperatures.
And Mark, you are correct. There is nothing we can do to change the climate. It is ever changing and CO2 has nothing to do with it. You can go to bed guilty free tonight knowing that driving your car will not lead to the end of Venice (or any other drivel you can come up with).
Mark Hastert
10 months, 3 weeks agoOh my, The Koch’s must be mad, the scientist they bought to deny climate change wouldn’t stay bought…. Richard A. Muller, professor of physics at UC Berkeley, MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature projectwrites: “Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause.”
Another one bites the dust.
Mark Hastert
10 months, 3 weeks ago“Wow Mark, I wonder how the earth warmed before humans showed up”
Nobody’s denying that we don’t have cyclical warm/cooling. What the science (now even the Koch scientist) are saying is that 150 years of man made emissions has made/is making it worse. Even the skeptics, the scientists you deniers always cite, acknowledge that now. You’re running out of fake science.
So far as the “extreme statement” goes it came from the Koch’s own (and formerly owned) guy. It’s hard to accept what you don’t want to believe but believe it or not it’s gonna happen.