Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Global warming anyone?





Much to the chagrin of global warming cultists the Antarctic ice sheets are growing, both in size and thickness. Of course the southern hemisphere is entering its summer phase so ice bergs will be calved, giving global warming alarmists more to be, well, alarmed about. However, this a natural process. And along with the ice bergs will be millions of tons of water... none of which will affect the depth of the world's oceans.
And in three months the ice sheets will start growing again, as they have been since the 1980s, however it is their rapid growth over the last 5 years that has gotten the attention of scientists.


Now lets go north... way, way north, to the Arctic ice cap. The summer of 2007 saw unprecedented melting of the ice cap. All media outlets showed pictures of polar bears on ice flows that were slowly melting and told of the way that man has doomed the arctic ice cap and all creatures living on it.


What the media has inconveniently not told the truth about is the equally unprecedented freezing of the ice cap to cover almost all of the surface of the cap lost to melting. The freeze occurred so quickly that on December 1st the ice cap was the size it normally does not attain until February 15. You see, what the alarmists in the cult of global warming do not want you to know, and their accomplices in the media won't tell you, is that the ice caps normally melt and refreeze every year. Certainly not the whole cap, and it is only fair to mention that a thaw on the magnitude of 2007 has never been recorded before, taking a fair amount of "old" ice with it. But the fact remains that the ice refroze at a record pace as well.
And now lets look at the other major northern ice cap, the Greenland ice cap. Like Antarctica this cap has several distinct ice fields or flows. In 1991 a flow of fresh glacier water began pouring out of the north east ice field where it had never been detected before. But it took until 2007 to identify the cause for the rapid decline on the size of this ice field... the earth! The crust is fairly thin in that area and the earth's magma is melting the glacier.


Now if there is a natural (not man made) explanation for Greenland, could there be a similar reason for the quick melt, followed by an even quicker freeze, such as a vent that belched out warm gasses for a few months, increased wind patterns, or maybe a slow moving lava flow such as seen in the Hawaiian islands? Chances are we'll never know because "the debate is over" and the facts are not important to the global warming cult!

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