Antarctica/Greenland growing thicker also:
Greenland icecap growing thicker - 20 Oct 2005 - Greenland 's ice-cap has thickened slightly in recent
years despite wide predictions of a thaw, scientists said today. Satellite measurements show that more snowfall is thickening the ice-cap, especially at high altitudes, according to the report in the journal Science.
"The overall ice thickness changes are ... approximately plus 5 cms
(1.9 inches) a year or 54 cms (21.26 inches) over 11 years," according
to the experts at Norwegian, Russian and U.S. institutes led by Ola
Johannessen at the Mohn Sverdrup center for Global Ocean Studies
and Operational Oceanography in Norway.
The article then blathers on about how this is consistent with global warming.
The deception continues.
See more of this article at
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=274166+20-Oct-2005+RTRS&srch=GREENLANDSee also:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/10/21/greenland.icecap.reut/index.htmlGreenland glaciers rate of advance doubles 3 Feb 06 - A report from the University of Swansea's School of the Environment and Society said that two major Greenland glaciers - the Kangerdlugssuaq and Helheim glaciers - have doubled their rate of flow to the ocean over the past two years after steady movement during the 1990s.
"It seems likely that other Greenland outlets will undergo similar changes, which would impact the mass balance of the ice sheet more rapidly than predicted," the study said.
“The fact that the two major outflow glaciers had shown the same sudden acceleration despite being more than 300 km apart suggested the cause was not local but more likely climatic or oceanic in origin.”
This article, published by Reuters News Service, goes on to wring its hands over global warming. Funny, isn’t it, how retreating glaciers were once attributed to global warming - now advancing glaciers are attributed to global warming. (Of course, you have to know to ignore that part)
See complete article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060203/sc_nm/environment_greenland_dcGreenland glacier advancing 7.2 miles per year ! The BBC recently ran a documentary, The Big Chill, saying that we could be on the verge of an ice age. Britain could be heading towards an Alaskan-type climate within a decade, say scientists, because the Gulf Stream is being gradually cut off. The Gulf Stream keeps temperatures unusually high for such a northerly latitude.
One of Greenland’s largest glaciers has already doubled its rate of advance, moving forward at the rate of 12 kilometers (7.2 miles) per year. To see a transcript of the documentary, go to
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/bigchilltrans.shtml Greenland growing colderStudies of historical meteorological data show that temperatures in this northern polar region have been falling. Over the last 40 or 50 years there has been "statistically significant cooling, particularly in south-western coastal Greenland. Sea-surface temperatures in the Labrador Sea also fell. The studies were made by Dr. Edward Hanna, from the University of Plymouth, UK, and Dr. John Cappelen, of the Danish Meteorological Institute, and presented in the Journal of Geophysical Review Letters. BBC News. 11 March 2003.
http://news.bbc.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2840137.stmIce and snow piling up over a large area of Antarctica - 19 May 2005 - According to a new study published in the online edition of Science, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet gained about 45 billion tons of ice between 1992 and 2003. The ice sheets are several kilometers thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice.
Using data from the European Space Agency's radar satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2, a research team from the University of Missouri, Columbia, measured changes in altitude over about 70% of Antarctica's interior. East Antarctica thickened at an average rate of about 1.8 centimeters per year over the time period studied, the researchers discovered.
The region comprises about 75% of Antarctica 's total land area and about 85% of the total ice volume. The area in question covers more than 2.75 million square miles - roughly the same size as the United States.
(This means that more than 90 percent of the world's glaciers are growing thicker … while the media keeps yelling about the ones that are melting.)
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050516/full/050516-10.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/science/20ICE.htmlAntarctic snow pack increasing 5 feet per year 18 Jul 05 – Here’s another case where the media seems to be trying to hide the fact that snow levels are increasing in Antarctica. The headline, about the Halley VI research station, reads “Base on skis wins polar contract.” The article then rambles on for ten paragraphs before almost mentioning that snow is accumulating in the area at the rate of five feet (1.5m) per year, and that “the previous four bases were all buried.”
Think about that. Snow is accumulating over an area bigger than the
continental United States. How in the world are sea levels supposed to rise, if so much moisture is getting locked up on land as ice? (They're not.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4693409.stmAccording to a report in Science (Jan 2002), new measurements show that the ice in parts of Antarctica is thickening. One week earlier, an article in Nature reported that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys - long considered a bellwether for global climate change - have grown noticeably cooler since the mid-1980s.
To put this in perspective, you must realize that the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Greenland Ice Sheets are almost twice as big as the contiguous United States. They're almost 100 times bigger than all of the rest of the world's glaciers put together. In other words, more than 99 percent of the world's glaciers are growing ... and all we hear about are the few that are melting.
And that's why sea levels are falling. That's where the water comes from to
build glaciers; from the seas.
Satellites show overall increases in Antarctic Sea Ice Cover Around Antarctica Claire Parkinson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center found that sea ice seasons have lengthened by at least one day per year over an area of 2.16 million square miles (about 3/4 of the size of the continental United States). This is roughly twice as large as the area where sea ice seasons have shortened by at least one day per year.
Sea ice now covers the area for three weeks longer per year than it did 21 years ago. Annals of Glaciology, Aug 22, 2002
See also
www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020820southseaice.htmlHere's a note from Michael Jenkins, CPA:
"I flew over southeastern Greenland in August, expecting to see lots of green coastline, with all the supposed melting we read about. Instead, it looked like the dead of winter to us, with ice everywhere, filling the valleys down to the seashore. Not a speck of green visible, on a clear day. No wonder the Vikings had to abandon their settlements."
Record snows crush historic Antarctic hut28 Nov 06 – "An Antarctic hut used by Captain Robert Falcon Scott is
being crushed under record snowdrifts."
Four conservators with the Antarctic Heritage Trust (AHT) spent a week
shoveling 85 tons of snow from around Cape Evans hut in a bid to prevent more damage from the snowdrifts, one-third bigger than any snowdrifts in 95 years.
"A quirk of global warming is that more snow is predicted to fall in Antarctica as temperatures rise, putting more strain on a fragile hut located in one of the planet's harshest environments." (That’s what the article says, but in fact, temperatures in Antarctica have been falling.)
"For the last two years rafters in the stables have partially collapsed under the weight of the snow," said AHT executive director Nigel Watson. "That's never happened before. "It's all been in the last three years with an unprecedented level of snow accumulation. There's been a significant change in terms of the
environment."
Amy Ng, a Wellington, New Zealand-based conservator, said snowfalls around the hut this winter were much higher than in previous years.
From an article in The Press by John Henzell
http://www.heritage-expeditions.com/travel/capeevans/Note Watson's words: "an unprecedented level of snow accumulation."
This, ladies and gentlemen, is how ice ages begin. Not because it may, or may not, be getting colder, but because of an "unprecedented level of snow accumulation."
Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing Thicker Here’s an e-mail from a geophysicist on Dec 13, 2004, who was stationed at the Byrd Station. He confirms that the ice is growing thicker in Antarctica.
"I spent much of the austral summer of 1969-70 as a geophysicist at Byrd Station and also about a month at the South Pole. I have not looked at my pictures in about a decade but I may have some with the towers in the background.
While at Byrd I made a trip to the original Byrd station site about 6 miles away.
By that time the station was totally buried but flagging marked an entry way. We had to dig down about 10 feet to a hatch and then go down a long ladder. It was an eerie sight - like something out of a science fiction film. The roof had been braced with 14"x14" timbers which were snapped like toothpicks and 55 gallon fuel cans, which were stacked and welded together were compressed to about 12 " in height. We had to crawl through much of the station. Equipment was still in place in the infirmary and there were still plates of food on the mess hall tables."
Dick Kuberry
Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing, Sea Levels Falling8 Nov 06 –– Research scientists D.J. Wingham et al. analyzed satellite
altimeter echoes to determine changes in volume of the Antarctic ice
sheet from 1992 to 2003. This survey, in their words, "covers 85% of
the East Antarctic ice sheet and 51% of the West Antarctic ice sheet,"
which together comprise "72% of the grounded ice sheet."
They found that the ice sheet is growing at 5 ± 1 mm year-." Not only
is the ice sheet growing thicker, its volume is increasing. The researchers
estimate that "72% of the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining 27 ± 29 Gt year,
sufficient to "lower [my' italics] global sea levels by 0.08 mm year."
This net extraction of water from the global ocean, according to Wingham
et al., occurs because "mass gains from accumulating snow, particularly on
the Antarctic Peninsula and within East Antarctica, exceed the ice dynamic
mass loss from West Antarctica."
Contrary to all the horror stories one hears about rising sea levels that
gobble up coastal lowlands worldwide, the real-world data suggests just
the opposite effect.
Reference
Wingham, D.J., Shepherd, A., Muir, A. and Marshall, G.J. 2006.
"Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet. Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society A, 364: 1627-1635.
http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V9/N45/C2.jspAntarctica growing colder (and here is one that clears up the entire Antarctica situation of cooling, increasing snowfall, and increasing ice thickness)
Measurements from NOAA show that the
vast preponderance of Antarctica cooled from 1982 to 2004
This image
http://www.iceagenow.com/Antarctica_Growing_Colder.htm shows trends in skin temperatures—from roughly the top millimeter of the land or sea surface—not air temperatures. The data were collected by the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors on several NOAA satellites. This image shows temperature trends from 1982 to 2004. Red indicates areas where temperatures generally increased during that period, and blue shows where temperatures predominantly decreased.
The area of strongest cooling appears at the South Pole, and the region of strongest warming lies along the Antarctic Peninsula. In some instances, bright red spots or streaks along the edge of the continent show where icebergs calved or ice shelves disintegrated, meaning the satellite began seeing warmer ocean water where there had previously been ice. One example of this is the bright red line along the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
(Please note that it’s the water that’s getting warmer, while the vast
preponderance of the continent is getting colder.)
Why is Antarctica getting colder in the middle when it’s warming up around the edge?
One possible explanation, says NOAA, is that the warmer temperatures in the
surrounding ocean have produced more precipitation in the continent’s interior, and this
increased snowfall has cooled the high-altitude region around the pole.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17257
