Global Warming Cont...

[saltydawg]

That ought to kick start the economy.

Exactly.

[saltydawg]

Antarctic glaciers moving more swiftly seaward.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009...iftly-seaward/

Antarctic glaciers are melting faster than previously thought, which could lead to an unprecedented rise in sea levels, scientists said Wednesday.
A report by thousands of scientists for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year concluded that the western part of the continent is warming up, not just the Antarctic Peninsula.
Previously most of the warming was thought to occur on the narrow stretch pointing toward South America, said Colin Summerhayes, executive director of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and a member of International Polar Year's steering committee.
Satellite data and automated weather stations indicate that "the warming we see in the peninsula also extends all the way down to what is called west Antarctica," he told The Associated Press. "That's unusual and unexpected."
During the International Polar Year, thousands of scientists from more than 60 countries engaged in intense Arctic and Antarctic research over the past two southern summer seasons _ on the ice, at sea, and via icebreaker, submarine and surveillance satellite.
The biggest western Antarctic glacier, the Pine Island Glacier, is moving 40 percent faster than it was in the 1970s, discharging water and ice more rapidly into the ocean, Summerhayes said.
The Smith Glacier, also in western Antarctica, is moving 83 percent faster than it did in 1992, he said.

[JuBru]

How does one make up their mind when there is so much contradicting material out there on this issue?

[Guisslapp]

Easy. Just trust these people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaH...eature=related

[saltydawg]

Rusla, notice how Guiss resorts to an appeal to emotions when answering your question. That means the deniers are intellectually bankrupt.

[Guisslapp]

I didn't appeal to emtions. The greenies in that video did. Are you saying greenies are intellectually bankrupt?

[JuBru]

Rusla, notice how Guiss resorts to an appeal to emotions when answering your question. That means the deniers are intellectually bankrupt.

That seems to be the approach no matter which side is speaking...


By-the-by, can't see the video...

[saltydawg]

That seems to be the approach no matter which side is speaking...


By-the-by, can't see the video...

The video is a bunch of hippies (environmental whackos) crying about some old-growth trees dying.

Guiss, since when has SCIENCE been intellectually bankrupt?

[saltydawg]

I didn't appeal to emtions. The greenies in that video did. Are you saying greenies are intellectually bankrupt?

Sure you appealed to emotions by referencing that video. Certainly was not to advance any sort of intellectual argument about whether AGW was NOT occurring.

Saying that AGW isn't occurring because some environmental whackos like to cry about trees dying isn't very logical, is it?

[Guisslapp]

Sure you appealed to emotions by referencing that video. Certainly was not to advance any sort of intellectual argument about whether AGW was NOT occurring.

Saying that AGW isn't occurring because some environmental whackos like to cry about trees dying isn't very logical, is it?

Is having fun not allowed?

[saltydawg]

Is having fun not allowed?

Sure it is, and that video was funny. What isn't funny is AGW.

[Guisslapp]

Sure it is, and that video was funny. What isn't funny is AGW.

It is also funny how serious you are about something that is so far from certain.

[saltydawg]

It is also funny how serious you are about something that is so far from certain.

You're cracking me up. AGW is science and the confidence level for it is very high. Just look at the latest report on Antarctica. A 3 to 5 foot rise in sea level by the end of this century is nothing to sneeze at. Of course, almost everybody on this message board will be dead by then.

[arkansasbob]

It is also funny how serious you are about something that is so far from certain.

you should never ever doubt what nobody is sure about -- willy wonka

[nadB]

Japs flip the birdie at U.N. and !!OBAMA!! on global warming:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02...t_translation/