Wednesday, July 25, 2012

James Hansen says Greenland is Melting. Yawn.

GREEN CRAP

GREENLAND IS MELTING!


On average in the summer, about half of the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet naturally melts. At high elevations, most of that melt water quickly refreezes in place. Near the coast, some of the melt water is retained by the ice sheet and the rest is lost to the ocean. But this year the extent of ice melting at or near the surface jumped dramatically. According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July.

Researchers have not yet determined whether this extensive melt event will affect the overall volume of ice loss this summer and contribute to sea level rise. [Dvorak Uncensored]

The wise blogger will aways check in with James Watt in these matters; in this case Greenland Ice Melt every 150 years is ‘right on time’   In addition, blithely reporting Algore inspired (and often subsidized)  climate-crap, using NASA's James Hansen as a source, doubles the recklessness and trebles the damage to ones reputation.  Ahem.

Not for the first time, actual scientists at NASA have bitch slapped Mr. Hansen. The crux of their letter is this:

As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA’s advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject.

Will he be fired this time?  When hell freezes over, it seems. 


8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Before the cold snap starting in 1300, Greenland supported a population of farmers. Its population plunged in the mini-ice age that ended around 1850, which coincidentally is which the Warm Mongers used as a starting point to keep track of the rising temperature.

Freddie Sykes

Anonymous said...

Met a couple Eurocrats from Brussells last week. They were aghast, that I did not grasp the seriousness of AGW. I teased them for their Poly Sci PhD's.

Casca

Anonymous said...

All the Greenies constantly bitch about the weather, but none of them seem to actually do anything about it. Fascinating.

Sir H da Comet

Kristophr said...

Greenland is becoming green?

Horrors!

Anonymous said...

"The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it." - P.J. O'Rourke
I have never taken any science courses about it and I still know a lot more on the subject than most of those environmental-cases.
GrinfilledCelt

Anonymous said...

Ice melting in Greenland? Those darn Scandi's will move back again and start an irrigation district.

Jess said...

This proves the people that originally named Greenland weren't totally zonked on magic mushrooms.

Anonymous said...

Hasn't the sun been blowing off a lot of huge swirlies? I thought I remember that it was doin' more stuff than it normally does, not abnormal, but higher than usual. Wouldn't that melt some more ice?
Yannow, just as the Eurps didn't give a fig about WJC's oval office antics, with just a cigar..., and didn't care about the French pols mistress, they don't seem to give a fig about their scientists making stuff up and throwing away real collected data. No wonder they still think Global Warming is happening.

You can lead a horse to water
But you can't make them drink
You can show a lib the facts
But you can't make them think

tomw

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