NASA’s updated data appears to suggest the annual rate
of global polar ice loss has actually decreased Greenland’s Riviera - their green southwest. Will
another Maunder minimum
grip the region in cages of ice again, or will bells ring
in the portside squares,
as they did in the 1300’s before that cooling came, and
ships sailed the fiords? (Source: NASA) Excerpt:
Washington Post correspondant Juliet Eilperin, in her
12-26-08 report entitled “New
climate change estimates more pessimistic,” dutifully
surveys the latest bleak findings of the climate change
community. Her primary source is a recently released survey
comissioned by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
- expanding on the findings of the 2007 4th IPPC Report
on Climate Change. Apparently this “new assessment
suggests that earlier projections may have underestimated
the climatic shifts that could take place by 2100.” One
of Eilperin’s primary examples of alarming new data is
reported as follows:
“In one of the reports most worrisome findings, the
agency estimates that in light of recent ice sheet melting,
global sea level rise could be as much as 4 feet by 2100.
The IPCC had projected a sea level rise of no more than
1.5 feet by that time, but satellite data over the past
two years show the world’s major ice sheets are melting
much more rapidly than previously thought. The Antarctic
and Greenland ice sheets are now losing an average of
48 cubic miles of ice a year, equivalent to twice the
amount of ice that exists in the Alps.”
Three years ago what NASA quantified as an alarming loss
of annual ice loss from Greenland was easily demonstrated
at that time to be an insignificant loss, and today NASA’s
updated data appears to suggest the annual rate of global
polar ice loss has actually decreased since then.
