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Antartic ice not melting at amazing speed
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Originally posted by pjclarke View PostEO - your premise is just wrong. the Antarctic is a landmass surrounded by ocean, the Arctic is an ocean surrounded by land. The Arctic is losing sea ice at an alarming rate, the Antarctic is losing land ice at an alarming rate. see for example Velicogna 2009
The above is of course a crass simplification, but you started it.Comment
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostJust like it did in the 1950s.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostActually there are several ice shelves that have disappeared that had been there for quite a long time. I read an article in sciam about it the other day. So not really 'just like' at all.
Arguing about exactly which bits of ice is beside the point. For example, we had patches of open water at the north pole then. I don't know, have we gone that far this time?Last edited by Doggy Styles; 9 September 2012, 21:55.Comment
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostThe point was that a similar ice-melt also occurred in the 1950s, thus 'just like' today.
Arguing about exactly which bits of ice is beside the point.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Glaciers and ice sheets have been advancing and receding for thousands of years. Here is a report of evidence of Alpine glaciers having been further back.
Also investigations of researchers of the ETH Zurich on the apron of the Unteraargletschers in the upper Bernese country resulted in strongly varying temperatures in the Alps, into whose attendants the glaciers advanced at times and retreated at times. "Scientific and archaeological findings fit together outstandingly", says Suter. From climatic research, it is well-known that in Europe between the 3rd Millenium and 1750 BC, a mild climate prevailed. The average summer temperatures might have been at that time for 0.5 to two degrees than today.I'm alright JackComment
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I'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostReally? Which ice shelves completely disappeared in the 1950s? Cos the ones that I was reading about had been there for ~10,000 years.
Read again. I said that enough ice disappeared from the pole itself to leave areas of open water. At the pole itself.
The north pole is one of the coldest spots in the Arctic, so if it can happen there at any time, it can happen anywhere.Last edited by Doggy Styles; 10 September 2012, 08:28.Comment
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostThe north pole is one of the coldest spots in the Arctic, so if it can happen there at any time, it can happen anywhere.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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