Greenland glaciers shrinking... for 100 years now

[southsider2k5]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/21/0...6.o0mynclv.html

[Gene Honda Civic]

[mr_genius]

[jasonxctf]

The biggest reduction was observed between 1964 and 1985.

 

"A three-to-four degree increase of the temperature on Greenland from 1920 to 1930, and the increase recorded since 1995 has sped up the ice melt," he said.

 

The effect of the rising temperatures in the 1920s and 1930s was "visible dozens of years later, and that of the 1990s will be (visible) in 10 or 20 years," Yde said, adding that he expected Greenland's glaciers to melt even faster in the future.

 

The shrinking of the glaciers since the 19th century is "the result of the atmosphere's natural warming, following volcanic eruptions for example and greenhouse gases, created by human activities, which have aggravated the situation further," he said.

 

i love how the title of the article indicates that its not global warming, but later in the story the researchers themselves suggest that human activities have caused this. horrible journalism.

[WilliamTell]

Uh oh, that'd be crazy if there was something simular to The Day After Tomorrow. Even if that'd happen it wouldn't be for a few hundred years.

[Gene Honda Civic]

Does anyone else think it's odd that Greenland is mostly covered with ice, while Iceland is mostly green?

[Mplssoxfan]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Just a millenial bit of blatant false advertising.

[whitesoxfan101]

Does anyone else think it's odd that Greenland is mostly covered with ice, while Iceland is mostly green?

 

Some drunk Viking probably came up with the names, it's a bunch of crap just like the whole "Bluegrass State" thing in Kentucky, there isn't any damned blue grass in that state.

 

As for the article itself......even it is contradictory. I never know what to believe with global warming, nobody can agree on anything in regards to this subject.

[Balta1701]

Some drunk Viking probably came up with the names, it's a bunch of crap just like the whole "Bluegrass State" thing in Kentucky, there isn't any damned blue grass in that state.

 

As for the article itself......even it is contradictory. I never know what to believe with global warming, nobody can agree on anything in regards to this subject.

This is only really true if you pay attention to the media, which feels the need to balance the scientists with quotes from industry-funded sources or write articles in such a way as to make it seem like the jury is still out.

 

The "Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" or IPCC, which has thus far prepared 3 comprehensive reports with the assistance and agreement of over 1200 climatologists (Update and report #4 is due next year). Their current prediction is somewhere between 2-10 degrees of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming within the next 100 years, depending on how extreme of efforts humanity goes to to mitigate the problem.

[vandy125]

Some drunk Viking probably came up with the names, it's a bunch of crap just like the whole "Bluegrass State" thing in Kentucky, there isn't any damned blue grass in that state.

 

As for the article itself......even it is contradictory. I never know what to believe with global warming, nobody can agree on anything in regards to this subject.

 

I saw this just recently on the History Channel. Greenland gots its name to entice settlers to come out to it.

Greenland Wikipedia

 

The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Norse sagas, it is said that Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his extended family and thralls (slaves), set out in ships to find the land that was rumored to be to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grønland ("Greenland") in order to attract more people to settle there. Greenland was also called Gruntland ("Ground-land") on early maps. Whether Green is an erroneous transcription of Grunt ("Ground"), which refers to shallow bays, or vice versa, is not known. It should also be noted, however, that the southern portion of Greenland (not covered by glacier) is indeed very green, at least in summer - the coastal temperature doubtless tempered by the northern branch of the North Atlantic Drift (aka Gulf Stream), which flows between Greenland and Iceland. (The southern branch flows south of Iceland over to and down the west coast of Ireland, where it re-meets the north branch, after it passes down the coast of Norway, then veers westward past Scotland and over to Ireland.)