Where ice caps grow

[Chris_]

Where ice caps grow

You've probably heard the permanent ice cap in the Arctic has receded considerably, because the people who are worried about global warming talk about it all the time.

You may not know ice in Antarctica is growing. This is an awkward topic for global warming alarmists, because if global warming were, er, global, this shouldn't be happening.

So how could ice be melting at the north pole while it's building up at the south?

"Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea," Agence France Presse reported June 25.

"The eruptions, as big as the one that buried Pompei — took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking (1,100 miles) from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia," the AFP dispatch said.

A team of scientists led by Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachussetts have gotten a look at the ocean floor 13,000 feet beneath the Arctic pack ice.

"What they saw was unmistakable evidence of explosive eruptions rather than the gradual secretion of lava bubbling up from the earth's mantle," AFP reported.

Magma is molten rock. Most magmas have temperatures ranging from 700 degrees Celsius to 1,300 degrees Celsius. That's hot enough to melt ice.

According to the data gathered by scientists in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, noted the Web logger "Sweetness & Light," the precipitous decline in the ice pack began in 1999, when the eruptions occurred. If this is a coincidence, it's a remarkable one.

But it's a coincidence that went unremarked upon in the AFP story. There is a tendency in contemporary journalism to attribute any adverse development in nature to anthropogenic global warming, no matter how strained the connection, and to downplay other, more plausible explanations for the phenomena.

*snip*

CBS and MSNBC posted on their Web sites June 17 a story linking global warming to earthquakes.

"New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on earth is now five times more energetic than it was 20 years ago," the story said.

"The research proves that destructive ability of earthquakes on Earth increases alarmingly fast and that this trend is set to continue, unless the problem of 'global warming' is comprehensively and urgently addressed."

If the Earth warms too much, it could explode, "Dr." Chalko said.

Mr. Chalko has never studied the earth sciences. But he practices meditation, telepathy and astral travel, his Web site says.

Teh algoricle ain't gonna like this. 

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[Jim]

the Goracle will ignoricle it as he does all other discouraging words....

prepare for the new ice age !

[franksolich]

Oh my.

One wonders if the nocturnally foul one has a "take" on this, what it means.

[Jim]

Oh my.

One wonders if the nocturnally foul one has a "take" on this, what it means.

the SUV's jiggle the earth so with their hulking weight and belching engines causing volcanos in a harmonic convergence sort of deal.   Dubya figured all this out on his Etch-a-Sketch and coordinated all the SUV owners to operate their world killers to cause it.

[Bondai]

Oh my.

One wonders if the nocturnally foul one has a "take" on this, what it means.

Where is that walking hunk of dick cheese, I haven't seen him lately...DU perhaps.

[JohnnyReb]

I say we point all the SUV's in this country eastward once a week and at exactly high noon est. we gun'em. This will speed the rotation of the earth thereby shortening the day and hurrying night fall which will cause a general cooling and therefore reversing the effects of gloow-ball warming. We can do it if we all pull together.

...and....and....and...... if we do it often enough and get the earth spinning fast enough, who knows, maybe we can seed the clouds with cream and sugar it'll snow homemade icecream.

[Chris_]

Oh my.

One wonders if the nocturnally foul one has a "take" on this, what it means.

I think I know how the foulest looks (except a.b. at 14 years old):



"Uh, global warming.  Hybrid Cars.."

[jinxmchue]

Where is that walking hunk of dick cheese

"How colorful."  (Line from Die Hard With a Vengeance.)