Comments on: Sea Levels to Rise a Meter this Century http://www.natural-environment.com/blog/2008/10/27/sea-levels-to-rise-a-meter-this-century/ Blogging for the Natural Environment Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: harbinger http://www.natural-environment.com/blog/2008/10/27/sea-levels-to-rise-a-meter-this-century/comment-page-1/#comment-4371 harbinger Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:26:12 +0000 http://www.natural-environment.com/blog/?p=493#comment-4371 Himalayan glaciers are not melting unless ice has suddenly started melting below zero C. Ablation because of reduced precipitation due to local changes is the reason . In any event, glaciers have been receding for the last 18000 years. The mass balance of Greenland is in equilibrium, so although glaciers on the SW coast have been receding, snow fall inland has increased, according to Zwally of NASA just 5 years ago. That means more ice for the glaciers as it finds its way down. The Arctic had a severe winter last year and is into another one now. Northern Hemisphere climate is getting colder as we enter another cooling cyle similar to 1960-90, when CO2 levels were rising rapidly. In the Mediaeval Warm Period, a thousand years ago, that same SW coast of Greenland had an agricultural economy. History disproves the AGW proposition every time, it has all happened before without current fossil fuel levels. The NorthWest passage was navigated a hundred years ago and many times since in spite of current claims. Four thousand years ago, eskimos sailed in kayaks, (not ice breakers), from North West Canada to Greenland, at least 3000 miles distant. Schellnhuber's whole treatise is model based and full of could be's, might be's, if's, but's and downright deception. He has to raise the bar because the financial crisis is pushing AGW onto the back burner and the funding might get cut. Himalayan glaciers are not melting unless ice has suddenly started melting below zero C. Ablation because of reduced precipitation due to local changes is the reason . In any event, glaciers have been receding for the last 18000 years. The mass balance of Greenland is in equilibrium, so although glaciers on the SW coast have been receding, snow fall inland has increased, according to Zwally of NASA just 5 years ago. That means more ice for the glaciers as it finds its way down. The Arctic had a severe winter last year and is into another one now. Northern Hemisphere climate is getting colder as we enter another cooling cyle similar to 1960-90, when CO2 levels were rising rapidly.

In the Mediaeval Warm Period, a thousand years ago, that same SW coast of Greenland had an agricultural economy. History disproves the AGW proposition every time, it has all happened before without current fossil fuel levels. The NorthWest passage was navigated a hundred years ago and many times since in spite of current claims. Four thousand years ago, eskimos sailed in kayaks, (not ice breakers), from North West Canada to Greenland, at least 3000 miles distant.

Schellnhuber’s whole treatise is model based and full of could be’s, might be’s, if’s, but’s and downright deception. He has to raise the bar because the financial crisis is pushing AGW onto the back burner and the funding might get cut.

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