There is a new long article at BBC Online about variations in warming, melting, and thickening across Antartica and Arctica.
There is also info on glaciers, I was impressed by this graph:
The graph was accompanied by the following text:
"The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep), collates records from across the globe and issues regular bulletins of area and volume changes.
Two years ago, they concluded that 30 major glaciers - assessed as being a representative global sample - had thinned by an average 6m between 1980 and 2001.
"It will have a major impact," says Professor Hambrey, "mainly through reductions in the fresh water supply.
Will iconic mountains like the Matterhorn become ice-free?
"Cities like La Paz in Bolivia and Lima in Peru rely heavily on glacial meltwater from the high Andes brought down into dry arid areas.
"Switzerland, by contrast, uses meltwater for hydroelectric power generation. If the glaciers disappear, their generating capacity will be very much reduced."
In the last month in the Antarctic as summer approaches ice has advanced across the Weddell sea to an extent almost as far as it did in December 1914 when Shakleton's ship the Endurance was trapped
in it.Did Global Warming cause that ?
So if 30 sites randomly sampled out of 600 possible sites show diamonds Louis would move on ... mmmm... yup ...
20 out of 600 is a valid sample. Another case of geologists who never were trained in statistics. Kriging indeed...
Anyway the evidence for a worldwide meltdown is overwhelming. According to the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, of the 88 glaciers surveyed in 2002 and 2003, only four were growing and at least 79 were receding.
Oerlemans's study of 169 glaciers reveals glacial retreat has accelerated in recent years. In Patagonia, the pace of retreat has doubled in the past three decades.
It really is utterly incredible isn't it ... so we're sailing through the Arctic soon - glaciers are melting world-wide, the troposhere is now warming by satellites ... and I have John telling me the world isn't warming - it's actually cooling 1998-2003.
The worldwide temperature network according to Hughes and John is a major league con... which is consistent with the world cooling ?*(^(*&@^@!!?? huh ... but isn't it ... is it. ARe we seriously saying the world is cooling. If so please someone step up to the plate.
But these people will believe in little ice bubbles in ice cores - why would you selectively believe that science. I mean we threw out peer review as a method of assessment in previous threads did we not ?
You guys had better come up a serious story soon.... of we'll have to suspect that you're pulling our legs ...
Cripes my tea leaves are predicting a bad day too.