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From: usenet on 3 Mar 2010 23:34
Arctic Ocean warming, icebergs growing scarce, Washington Post reports

By Kirk Myers
Seminole County Environmental News Examiner
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

[Caption] The resilient planet earth has been warming and cooling
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"The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in
some places the seals are finding the water too hot," according to a
Commerce Department report published by the Washington Post.

Writes the Post: "Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers.
. all point to a radical change in climate conditions and . . .
unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone . . . Great masses of ice
have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones . . . while at
many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared."

More evidence of human-caused global warming? Hardly.

The above report of runaway Arctic warming is from a Washington Post
story [2] published Nov. 2, 1922 and bears an uncanny resemblance to
the tales of global warming splattered across the front pages of
today's newspapers. It is one of many historical accounts published
during the past 140 years describing climate changes and often
predicting catastrophic cooling or warming.

Here are excerpts from a few of those accounts, appearing as early as
1870:

"The climate of New-York and the contiguous Atlantic seaboard has
long been a study of great interest. We have just experienced a
remarkable instance of its peculiarity. The Hudson River, by a
singular freak of temperature, has thrown off its icy mantle and
opened its waters to navigation."
- New York Times, Jan. 2, 1870

"Is our climate changing? The succession of temperate summers and
open winters through several years, culminating last winter in the
almost total failure of the ice crop throughout the valley of the
Hudson, makes the question pertinent. The older inhabitants tell us
that the winters are not as cold now as when they were young, and we
have all observed a marked diminution of the average cold even in
this last decade."
- New York Times, June 23, 1890

"The question is again being discussed whether recent and long-
continued observations do not point to the advent of a second glacial
period, when the countries now basking in the fostering warmth of a
tropical sun will ultimately give way to the perennial frost and snow
of the polar regions."
- New York Times, Feb. 24, 1895

Professor Gregory of Yale University stated that "another world ice-
epoch is due." He was the American representative to the Pan-Pacific
Science Congress and warned that North America would disappear as far
south as the Great Lakes, and huge parts of Asia and Europe would be
"wiped out."
- Chicago Tribune, Aug. 9, 1923

"The discoveries of changes in the sun's heat and southward advance
of glaciers in recent years have given rise to the conjectures of the
possible advent of a new ice age
- Time Magazine, Sept. 10, 1923

Headline: "America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line
Records a 25-year Rise"
- New York Times, March 27, 1933 [3]

"America is believed by Weather Bureau scientists to be on the verge
of a change of climate, with a return to increasing rains and deeper
snows and the colder winters of grandfather's day."
- Associated Press, Dec. 15, 1934

Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level,
Scientist Says -- "A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly
manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a "serious
international problem," Dr. Hans Ahlmann, noted Swedish geophysicist,
said today.
- New York Times, May 30, 1937

"Greenland's polar climate has moderated so consistntly that
communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea
mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish
and other fish species in the area's southern waters."
- New York Times, Aug. 29, 1954

"An analysis of weather records from Little America shows a steady
warming of climate over the last half century. The rise in average
temperature at the Antarctic outpost has been about five degrees
Fahrenheit."
- New York Times, May 31, 1958

"Several thousand scientists of many nations have recently been
climbing mountains, digging tunnels in glaciers, journeying to the
Antarctic, camping on floating Arctic ice. Their object has been to
solve a fascinating riddle: what is happening to the world's ice?
- New York Times, Dec. 7, 1958

"After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an
assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached
unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder."
- New York Times, Jan. 30, 1961

"Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with
its inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic
wave that is plunging us toward another Ice Age."
- Los Angeles Times, Dec. 23, 1962

"Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper
among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is
thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea
within a decade or two."
- New York Times, Feb. 20, 1969

"By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight
reaching earth by one half . . . ."
- Life magazine, January 1970

"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct.
Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the
stench of dead fish."
- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day, 1970

"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action
is taken against problems facing mankind. We are in an environmental
crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world
as a suitable place of human habitation."
- Barry Commoner (Washington University), Earth Day, 1970

Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor, "the planet
will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age
will be born."
- Newsweek magazine, Jan. 26, 1970

"The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale
investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more
frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become
ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover
contributes to the onset of ice ages."
- New York Times, July 18, 1970

"In the next 50 years, fine dust that humans discharge into the
atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the
sun's rays that the Earth's average temperature could fall by six
degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be
sufficient to trigger an ice age."
- Washington Post, July 9, 1971

"It's already getting colder. Some midsummer day, perhaps not too far
in the future, a hard, killing frost will sweep down on the wheat
fields of Saskatchewan, the Dakotas and the Russian steppes. . . ."
- Los Angles Times, Oct. 24, 1971

"An international team of specialists has concluded from eight
indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend
of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere."
- New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978

"A poll of climate specialists in seven countries has found a
consensus that there will be no catastrophic changes in the climate
by the end of the century. But the specialists were almost equally
divided on whether there would be a warming, a cooling or no change
at all."
- New York Times, Feb. 18, 1978

"A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and
disease, the experts said... Under this scenario, the resort town of
Ocean City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total
of 85 feet within the next 25 years."
- San Jose Mercury News, June 11, 1986

"Global warming could force Americans to build 86 more power plants -
- at a cost of $110 billion -- to keep all their air conditioners
running 20 years from now, a new study says...Using computer models,
researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual
temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010, and the drain on power
would require the building of 86 new midsize power plants
- Associated Press, May 15, 1989

"New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 17, 1989

"[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands
of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop
failures and food riots . . . [By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska
would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie
topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and
shut down computers . . . The Mexican police will round up illegal
American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands."
- "Dead Heat: The Race Against the Greenhouse Effect," Michael
Oppenheimer and Robert H. Boyle, 1990.

"It appears that we have a very good case for suggesting that the El
Ninos are going to become more frequent, and they're going to become
more intense and in a few years, or a decade or so, we'll go into a
permanent El Nino. So instead of having cool water periods for a year
or two, we'll have El Nino upon El Nino, and that will become the
norm. And you'll have an El Nino, that instead of lasting 18 months,
lasts 18 years," according to Dr. Russ Schnell, a scientist doing
atmospheric research at Mauna Loa Observatory.
- BBC, Nov. 7, 1997

"Scientists are warning that some of the Himalayan glaciers could
vanish within ten years because of global warming. A build-up of
greenhouse gases is blamed for the meltdown, which could lead to
drought and flooding in the region affecting millions of people."
- The Birmingham Post in England, July 26, 1999

"This year (2007) is likely to be the warmest year on record
globally, beating the current record set in 1998."
- Science Daily, Jan. 5, 2007

Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt
this summer (2008), report scientists studying the effects of climate
change in the field. "We're actually projecting this year that the
North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history]," David
Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News
aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker.
- National Geographic News, June 20, 2008

"So the climate will continue to change, even if we make maximum
effort to slow the growth of carbon dioxide. Arctic sea ice will melt
away in the summer season within the next few decades. Mountain
glaciers, providing fresh water for rivers that supply hundreds of
millions of people, will disappear -- practically all of the glaciers
could be gone within 50 years. . . Clearly, if we burn all fossil
fuels, we will destroy the planet we know . . . We would set the
planet on a course to the ice-free state, with sea level 75 metres
higher. Climatic disasters would occur continually." Dr. James Hansen
(NASA GISS), The Observer, Feb. 15, 2009. [4]

* * *

Climate change? Yes, there has been plenty of that during the past
140 years. Despite warnings by "experts of the day" of approaching
climate disasters, mankind somehow managed to survive. A decade or so
from now, after earth's climate changes once again, those who are old
enough will recall with amusement the time, early in the 21st
century, when the world went crazy over an imaginary threat called
"global warming."

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[1] http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID32936/images/resized_climate20changing2.jpg
[2] http://www.wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/16/you-ask-i-provide-november-2nd-1922-arctic-ocean-getting-warm-seals-vanish-and-icebergs-melt/
[3] http://www.epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?id=264616&party=rep
[4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/15/james-hansen-power-plants-coal

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From: enigma on 4 Mar 2010 00:01

You forgot:

NASA: Increasing Rate of Ice Melt in Greenland (2005.05.20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SoBF4vFArg

Must see video of Greenland melting (2009.02.20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9FbdqGRsg

Why?
From: Catoni on 4 Mar 2010 12:30
On Mar 4, 12:01 am, enigma <enigma_...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> You forgot:
>
> NASA: Increasing Rate of Ice Melt in Greenland (2005.05.20)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SoBF4vFArg
>
> Must see video of Greenland melting (2009.02.20)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9FbdqGRsg
>
> Why?


The ice around the edge of Greenland melts every summer. It's very
easy to get video of it melting... so what.? ? ?

You want it to stop melting and just keep growing ? ? ?

You're a nut case.
From: Sam Wormley on 4 Mar 2010 12:53
On 3/4/10 11:30 AM, Catoni wrote:

> The ice around the edge of Greenland melts every summer. It's very
> easy to get video of it melting... so what.? ? ?

Something very different is happening now with the ice flow
rates, but I'll bet you have no interest in what or why.

From: Sam Wormley on 4 Mar 2010 13:03
On 3/4/10 2:41 AM, Peter Muehlbauer wrote:
> Greenland ice has been advanced and retreated since aeons.
> Nothing new here.
>

Betcha don't have a clue, Peter.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Greenland+ice


Drastic Climate Change Affects Germany
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1726287,00.html

Germany in Top Five Countries Fighting Climate Change
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Climate Change in Germany
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Germany Climate Change Profile
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