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Title: You Know What Else Melts Glaciers?
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on December 14, 2009, 10:46:28 PM
The sun!

Sounds crazy, right?

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GENEVA (AFP) – A surge in sunshine more than 60 years ago helped Swiss mountain glaciers melt faster than today, even though warmer average temperatures are being recorded now, Swiss researchers said Monday.

Their study into the impact of solar radiation on Alpine glaciers made the "surprising discovery" that in the 1940s, and especially summer 1947, the ice floes lost the most ice since measurements begin 95 years ago, according to Zurich's Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091214/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingswitzerlandglaciers_20091214171443

climatologist (KLY-ma-tol-oh-gist), noun - 1. a person surprised to discover the sun can melt ice
Title: Re: You Know What Else Melts Glaciers?
Post by: Chris on December 14, 2009, 10:48:07 PM
You know, a little blurb came up on the History Channel while I was watching one of their trashy reality shows.

Apparently, 90% of the world's ice is in the southern hemisphere.  If that's so, why does Allgor focus all of his attention on the northern polar ice caps?
Title: Re: You Know What Else Melts Glaciers?
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on December 14, 2009, 10:50:09 PM
Indeed.

Penguins are much cuter than polar bears.
Title: Re: You Know What Else Melts Glaciers?
Post by: bkg on December 15, 2009, 08:27:27 AM
The sun warms the earth?

I call BS.
Title: Re: You Know What Else Melts Glaciers?
Post by: Crazy Horse on December 15, 2009, 05:37:20 PM
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on December 14, 2009, 10:46:28 PM
The sun!

Sounds crazy, right?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091214/sc_afp/unclimatewarmingswitzerlandglaciers_20091214171443

climatologist (KLY-ma-tol-oh-gist), noun - 1. a person surprised to discover the sun can melt ice


This just in................water is wet
Title: Re: You Know What Else Melts Glaciers?
Post by: Oceander on December 15, 2009, 08:12:58 PM
Quote from: bkg on December 15, 2009, 08:27:27 AM
The sun warms the earth?

I call BS.

Absolutely!  Who do these bunnies think they are, trying to trick us into believing that the Sun melts ice, when we all know, thanks to the divine revelations of the Holey Prophet Gore, may His name be praised everywhere, that it's only carbon-emitters who warm the Earth! ;)