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Thursday, May 19, 2005
What Happened to Global Warming?
The environmental Chicken Littles have been yelling their own version of "the sky is falling" ("the temp is rising!!!") for quite a while now. Wonder how they'll explain this:
Increased snowfall over a large area of Antarctica is thickening the ice sheet and slowing the rise in sea level caused by melting ice.So... global warming has caused... snow?
A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice - enough to reduce the oceans' rise by 0.12 millimetres per year. The ice sheets that cover Antarctica's bedrock are several kilometres thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that sea level is currently rising at about 1.8 millimetres per year, largely through melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets as a result of global warming. But the panel also expected that climate change would trigger an increase in snowfall over the Antarctic continent, as increased evaporation from the oceans puts more moisture into the air.Do these people have any idea what they're talking about? If it's warm enough to melt ice, how can it snow? Wouldn't the increased moisture in the air cause rain instead?
