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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:56 am Post subject: Those 'Scientists' Are Saying Global Warming Man Made And Wi
<b>Permanent link to <a href="http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2007/02/those_scientist.php">Those 'Scientists' Are Saying Global Warming Man Made And Will Continue: So What The Hell Am I Suppose To Do About It?</a></b>
<b>Excerpt:</b> ... the IPCC fails to provide any real support for its key conclusion: "It is very likely that anthropogenic greenhouse-gas increases caused most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century."
AMSTERDAM – The Netherlands will not be flooded, but the sea-level will be higher than in other parts of the world until 2100. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) and the Netherlands Meteorological Bureau (KNMI) said this on Friday after the publication of the UN’s climate report.
The UN’s climate panel (IPCC) said in the report presented in Paris that sea-level will rise 18 to 59 centimetres by 2100. That is a narrower margin than it reported in its last report in 2001. At that time the UN forecast a rise of 9 to 88 centimetres
The MNP and the KNMI report that the Netherlands is not in any great danger of being submerged. They say an increase of up to 1 metre per century or up to 5 metres in the very long term can be accommodated with the existing techniques and the current level of expenditure on coastal protection.
WASHINGTON (Feb. 15) - Beneath the snow, ice and bitter cold of Antarctica, scientists -- using space-based lasers -- have discovered a network of lakes that fill and empty with rapidly flowing water.
It's a finding that may improve understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting of Antarctic ice, which could contribute to a worldwide rise in ocean level.
Researchers studying data from satellites were able to measure rises and falls in the overlying ice as the lakes filled and emptied.
More than 100 lakes have been found in West Antarctica, according to research published Thursday in the online issue of the journal Science.
The ice above the lakes is moving as fast as two yards a day - "really ripping along" in the words of Robert Bindschadler of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, one of the study's co-authors.
It's the fast-moving ice that determines how the ice sheet responds to climate change on a short timescale," he said in a statement.
"We aren't yet able to predict what these ice streams are going to do. We're still learning about the controlling processes. Water is critical, because it's essentially the grease on the wheel. But we don't know the details yet," he said.
Lead author Helen Fricker of the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography said the researchers were surprised by how fast things were moving.
"We thought these changes took place over years and decades, but we are seeing large changes over months," she said.
"We need computer models to be faithful to the processes that are actually going on on the ice sheet," she said. At this point, computer models do not show how the subglacial water is moving around.
The researchers studied images from NASA's ICESat, or Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite collected from 2003 to 2006. The images gave a much larger view of ice movement.
Previously researchers had to drill deep holes in the ice to determine what was going on underneath, a process that limited then to studying only small areas at a time.
About 90 percent of the world's fresh water is locked in the thick ice cap that covers Antarctica.
Comment: Apparently, Antarctica has more secrets to reveal than our top-notched scientists have led themselves to believe.
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