Its getting colder! Alaskan Glaciers grow for first time in 250 Years!!!
 

But everyone will tell you that Al Gore said there is global warming happening, so this can't be true! :D

http://www.dailytech.com/Alaskan+Gla...ticle13215.htm

-S

PS. Besides, we haven't had a thread like this in ages!

The earth goes through natural heating and cooling periods. I learned that in the 6th grade. Having said that, I am all for people being good stewards of this planet. But Al and his cronies are hyping people up with fear tactics, which is a good motivator for them.

Well said man. Being a good steward and using FUD to make you buy product they have large stakes in ($1.8 Bil for Al Gore in green techs) are two very different things.

-S

That's because Palin and her hot air isn't in Alaska to melt them :lol:

(note, this note is by no means a statement on my political views, but merely an opportunity taken.)

I would take this to mean you have a crush on her by calling her hot.

-S

No it's getting warmer. Oil price is dropping!

OUCH!:D

No, that just can't be.

Several people on this forum have very clearly said that we are in the midst of a severe human caused global warming epidemic and that we should give all our money to developing nations and start living in grass huts, using only non polluting body heat to stay warm.

Many of these same people have claimed that we are nearly out of oil and that the price would continue to go ever up until only the rich can afford to buy it.

Just wait, you'll see...

Holy crap it's Michael Asher.

*surprise*

Me probably amongst them:). Perhaps on the developing nations issue we can can share a laugh about the Sierra Club's take that as people in the 3rd world use 1/6th the energy we use, we should ban immigration to the west as it increases their carbon footprint. 'Lefties with a 'right wing' stance:D

LMAO :rotfl:

I thought it was 'cause I stopped driving my truck !

Yeah, and the Al Gore crowd will squeal that we need to drop coal dust on the glaciers if they get too big. As they will say if we don't, we'll all have to live in igloos and eat raw fish and seals, and whales.

Yes, wait and see it rise again after this recession. :know:

The usual suspects with the usual hooey, for the 1001st time. What a surprise! I must not even read it to know what it is about: hooey.

Pedersen glacier, Alaska
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/3...glacierac1.jpg

Muir glacier, Alaska
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2...glaciereo9.jpg

Northwestern glacier, Alaska
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5...nglaciera6.jpg

Bear glacier, alaska
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8...glacierpe6.jpg

McCarty glacier, Alaska
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9...glacierta4.jpg

From NOAA (subordinate to the US ministry of commerce):
http://www.noaa.gov/
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories...ticreport.html
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/index.html

Atmosphere Changes:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/atmosphere.html

Sea Ice reduction:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/seaice.html

Ocean Salinity and temperature:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/ocean.html

Land Effects (Permafrost, snow, glaciers, etc)
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/land.html

changes in animal populations:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/biology.html

Greenland-specific
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/greenland.html

Time-wise limited paradoxical effects due to climate warming have been described, forseen and explained since years. Why the ice in parts of the antarctic for some years will increase in thickness and why this is an evidence for air and sea warming up, has been explained since years. It also has been forseen. Why in some regions of the world glaciers eventually for a short while will give the impression to increase in size, has been explained since years. But feel free to ignore all that for another couple of years: that is called the right of free opionion. but having a right of free opinion does not mean that the question wether or not 2 plus 2 makes 4 is open for discussion, and is a question of opinion. You can be of the very precious and very important opinion that 2+2=4 is wrong - but who cares.

Having an opinion and having a reasonable argument - are two totally different things. Just be loud enough: and people will mistake volume for argument.

Skybird - Yawn!

No it hasn't been explained. The NOAA know this better than anybody - that we are still low for the average Earth temp over 3000 years.

There are rogue scientists in both the NOAA and NASA. Including that whacked carbon NASA employee that testified to get vandals off in the UK recently by making everyone think they were justified in destroying property.

Tired of this nonsense. Where is the real long term data? Let me guess, the NOAA has suppressed it! Duh! You only have 100 years there. This is simply climbing out of our last Ice Age which was at its height at about the time George Washington was taking on the British - the American Revolution!

Why is your head so buried up your you no what that you can't see this?

-S