Climategate

[threaded]

Two more contradictory snippets:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8387137.stm

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1225700046908

I'm going right off the BBC of late.

Quite. The reasons the sea doesn't freeze solid, and your fish live through the winter in wish ponds, is that water gets denser as it cools to a point and then starts to float back up as ice. So this thermal expansion they talk of, would have to be some pretty extreme rise in temperature.

Ice sheets float on water, if they melt the water level will most likely stay the same, it's Archimedes principle innit, and if anything else, drop as explained above. Unless of course we start getting Palm trees growing in the Antarctic like they did a few million years ago, but back then the whole world was wetter and lots more water was held in bio-mass and the sea-levels were lower...

[EternalOptimist]

if water behaved like other material, and kept on getting denser till it froze, the ice would sink.
There would soon be an ice sheet on the sea bed that would never melt. It would get thicker and thicker till the planet was a dead snowball.

This is a better argument for the existance of God than all the holy books and all the holy men in the world.

[RichardCranium]

if water behaved like other material, and kept on getting denser till it froze, the ice would sink.

This is a better argument for the existence of God than all the holy books and all the holy men in the world.

Why's that? Do you think He might have f**ked up the spec. for water?

[EternalOptimist]

Why's that? Do you think He might have f**ked up the spec. for water?

I think the old guy likes water, thats why he miraculously intervened in the process.
I dont know if science produces a reasonable explanation for this at all

[Bagpuss]

Two more contradictory snippets:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8387137.stm

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1225700046908

I'm going right off the BBC of late.

seems fairly balanced, from BBC article....

But the rest of the continent has remained largely immune from the global trend of rising temperatures.

Indeed, the continent's largest portion, East Antarctica, appears to have cooled, bringing a 10% increase in the sea ice extent since 1980.

[gingerjedi]

seems fairly balanced, from BBC article....

But the rest of the continent has remained largely immune from the global trend of rising temperatures.

Indeed, the continent's largest portion, East Antarctica, appears to have cooled, bringing a 10% increase in the sea ice extent since 1980.

So why didn't the article header read 'Some ice melts but not to worry as more ice forms'.