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all fifty states hit FREEZING mark

*deadpans* ..so much for global warming... :whistle:
 
i love it when florida's sunshine and the cool air mixes together... :cool:
 
Jazzy said:
This is definitely the coldest Novemember in a very long time where I live.

Novemember?

Also sorry to hear that. :( You USA guys should remain optimistic :tup:
 
the florida keys and the hawaii islands are in the same area when it comes to being close to the equator...

they are both almost on the tropic of cancer line...
 
Another winter like last year for Americans and the hoax called global warming will finely be dead and buried except for the few who believe in it like a radical terrorists religion.


141 year old cold weather record falls in Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

Thursday morning not only broke an "ancient" record from 1873, but we also dropped to the second coldest temperature ever recorded in the month of November in Jacksonville.

According to the National Weather Service, for the second morning in a row, Jacksonville set a new cold weather record. Thursday mornings temperature dropped to a bone chilling 24 degrees breaking the old record of 30 degrees set in 1873.

If that wasn't cold enough for you, Thursday's 24 degrees also marks the second lowest temperature ever recorded in the month of November, beaten out only by the year 1970 when the mercury dropped to 21 degrees in Jacksonville in November.
http://www.news4jax.com/weather/coldest-november-morning-in-38-years-across-usa/29817030
 
TRUE LIBERTY said:
Another winter like last year for Americans and the hoax called global warming will finely be dead and buried except for the few who believe in it like a radical terrorists religion.

Somewhere Scare Gore is crying in his luxury beer, while his environmentally-correct mansion burns gads' of electricity every hour of the day...what a hypocrite.
 
What scares me for the north last winter is they came very close to a power grid failure because of so many coal plants forced to close. If we get that kind of winter again I think it will happen and many will die. You want to start a revolution in this country stop providing people power to there homes. I think if anything would put both sides of the political spectrum physically taking to the streets is something like this happening.
 
“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,” Obama said, responding to a question about his cap-and-trade plan. He later added, “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

Barack Obama, 2008

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74892.html
 
TRUE LIBERTY said:
Another winter like last year for Americans and the hoax called global warming will finely be dead and buried except for the few who believe in it like a radical terrorists religion.








141 year old cold weather record falls in Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

Thursday morning not only broke an "ancient" record from 1873, but we also dropped to the second coldest temperature ever recorded in the month of November in Jacksonville.

According to the National Weather Service, for the second morning in a row, Jacksonville set a new cold weather record. Thursday mornings temperature dropped to a bone chilling 24 degrees breaking the old record of 30 degrees set in 1873.

If that wasn't cold enough for you, Thursday's 24 degrees also marks the second lowest temperature ever recorded in the month of November, beaten out only by the year 1970 when the mercury dropped to 21 degrees in Jacksonville in November.
http://www.news4jax.com/weather/coldest-november-morning-in-38-years-across-usa/29817030

there goes liberty, saying any crazy untrue thing he can think up again... :lol:

how very sad...

just because it gets cold in the winter, like it supposed to, doesn't mean climate change and global warming isn't true... jesus christ, liberty are you mad or just severely brainwashed? wait, yes, yes you are...

the proof is in the pudding, ice glaciers are melting and been melting... a fact that you can't comprehend or just simply ignore... or maybe you're stuck in denial mode?

and saying that people that believe in global warming are terrorists?

i think you're a fraud...
 
Glaciers are growing across the globe not melting.



Here's a (partial) list of the
specific glaciers that are growing

(There are many more)






   India - Record snowfall revives 2,000 glaciers  
   17 Feb 11 - Already more snowfall this month than
   1998 record for the entire month. Think you'll see
   this in the mainstream media?
   See India - Record snowfall revives 2,000 glaciers  

   
   NORWAY
         Ålfotbreen Glacier
         Briksdalsbreen Glacier
         Nigardsbreen Glacier
         Hardangerjøkulen Glacier
         Hansebreen Glacier
         Jostefonn Glacier
         Engabreen glacier (The Engabreen glacier
           is the second largest glacier in Norway. It is a
           part (a glacial tongue) of the Svartisen glacier,
           which has steadily increased in mass since the
           1960s when heavier winter precipitation set in.)

   Norway's glaciers growing at record pace.  The face of the Briksdal glacier,
   an off-shoot of the largest glacier in Norway and mainland Europe, is growing by an
   average 7.2 inches (18 cm) per day. (From the Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende.)


   Click here to see mass balance of Norwegian glaciers:
   http://www.nve.no/

         Choose "English" (at top of the page), choose "Water,"
         then "Hydrology," then "Glaciers and Snow" from the menu.
         You'll see a list of all significant glaciers in Norway.
                             (Thanks to Leif-K. Hansen for this info.)
   CANADA
         Helm Glacier
         Place Glacier

         Glaciers growing on Canada’s tallest mountain
         17 Nov 08 – The ice-covered peak of Yukon's soaring Mount Logan
         may be due for an official re-measurement after readings that suggest
         this country's superlative summit has experienced a growth spurt.
         See Glaciers growing on Canada’s tallest mountain

   FRANCE
        Mt. Blanc - See Mont Blanc Glacier almost doubles in size
   ECUADOR
         Antizana 15 Alpha Glacier
   
   Italy
        Winter snows did not all melt on Italy’s Presena Glacier this summer
        10 Nov 09 - 'Their massive base depth last season meant it didn’t all melt
        over the summer so they have nearly a metre and a half of snow on the glacier
        ski area already." (The second story of this kind in two years.)
        See Winter snows did not all melt on Italy’s Presena Glacier this summer

   
   Glaciers growing in Italy
   8 Feb 11 - Glaciers are growing on two different mountains in Italy - Mount Canin and Mount Montasio. Will you see this in the main-stream media?
   Glaciers growing in Italy

   SWITZERLAND
         Silvretta Glacier

   KIRGHIZTAN
        Abramov

   RUSSIA
        Maali Glacier (This glacier is surging. See below)
   
       GREENLAND See Greenland Icecap Growing Thicker  
       Greenland glacier advancing 7.2 miles per year! The BBC recently ran
       a documentary, The Big Chill, saying that we could be on the verge of an ice
       age. Britain could be heading towards an Alaskan-type climate within a decade,
       say scientists, because the Gulf Stream is being gradually cut off. The Gulf
       Stream keeps temperatures unusually high for such a northerly latitude.

       One of Greenland’s largest glaciers has already doubled its rate of advance,
       moving forward at the rate of 12 kilometers (7.2 miles) per year. To see a
       transcript of the documentary,
       go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/bigchilltrans.shtml


       Greenland Ice Sheet Growing Thicker
       4 Nov 05 - After gathering data for more than ten years, a team of
       Norwegian-led scientists has found that the Greenland Ice Sheet is
       actually growing thicker at its interior.
       See Greenland Ice Sheet Growing Thicker


       Rebellious Greenland Glacier Keeps Growing
       26 July 10 - Berlingske Glacier has steadily grown for the past
       100 years. And yet, it's not counted in the glacier inventory. Why
       haven't we heard about this growing glacier?
       See Rebellious Greenland Glacier Keeps Growing
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       CHILE
       Pio XI, the largest glacier in South America, grows
       50 meters in height, length and density every day.
       See Pio XI - Largest glacier in Chile - Growing every day
       
       NEW ZEALAND
       All 48 glaciers in the Southern Alps have grown during the past year.
       The growth is at the head of the glaciers, high in the mountains, where they
       gained more ice than they lost. Noticeable growth should be seen at the
       foot of the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers within two to three years.(27 May 2003)
       See New Zealand Glaciers Growing

             Fox, Franz Josef glaciers defy trend - New Zealand's
             two best-known glaciers are still on the march  
             31 Jan 07 - See Franz Josef Glacier still on the march

       See also Pesky New Zealand Glaciers Growing

       See also: Contrarian New Zealand Glaciers Keep Growing


       ARGENTINA
       Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier, the largest glacier in Patagonia,
       is advancing at the rate of 7 feet per day. The 250 km² ice formation,
       30 km long, is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice
       Field. This ice field, located in the Andes system shared with Chile,
       is the world's third largest reserve of fresh water.
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perito_Moreno_Glacier

       UNITED STATES
             - Colorado (scroll down to see AP article)
             - Washington (Mount St. Helens, Mt. Rainier* and Mt. Shuksan
             - California (Mount Shasta - scroll down for info)
             - Montana (scroll down for info)
             - Glacier Peak, WA (scroll down for info
             - Alaska (Mt. McKinley and Hubbard).
                     

       SPAIN
       Glaciers growing in Spain (Pyrinees)
       10 Jan 11 - El glaciar del Infierno (glacier of Hell) has advanced.
       The mainstream media seems to have somehow missed this.
       See Glaciers growing in Spain (Pyrinees)

       

       Antarctica growing colder - Ice expanding
       18 Apr 09 - "Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica," says this
       article. In addition, the South Pole has shown "significant cooling
       in recent decades".
       See Antarctica growing colder - Ice expanding

       

       Antarctic ice grows to record levels
       13 Sep 07 - While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed
       in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern
       Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder
       and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting,
       See Antarctic ice grows to record levels

       
       Oops - West Antarctic Ice Sheet
       not losing ice as fast as we thought
       20 Oct 09 — New measurements by
       GPS Network suggest the rate of ice
       loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet
       has been slightly overestimated.
       See Oops - West Antarctic Ice Sheet not losing ice as fast as we thought

       .

       Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf is growing
       7 Dec 05 – Scientists Joughin and Bamber re-evaluated the mass balances
       of the ice in Antarctica. "It is clear from the results of this study that the
       Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf is not rapidly, or even slowly, wasting away.
       Quite to the contrary, it is growing."
       See Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf growing

       

       Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advancing 7 feet per day!
       10 May 09 – This from climatologist Cliff Harris of the Coeur d’Alene Press.
       It's possible that the glacier could close the fjord by later this summer if the
       current rate speeds up, says Harris.
       See Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advancing 7 feet per day!

       

       Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back
       19 Feb 08 - A Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly
       a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and
        buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming.
       See Most snow cover since 1966
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       Mount St. Helens’ Crater Glacier Advancing Three Feet Per Day
       25 Jun 07 - See Crater Glacier
       

       Against odds, glacier grows in cauldron of Mt. St. Helens
       15 May 08 – See Glacier grows in cauldron of Mt. St. Helens
       

       Mount St. Helens glacier (Crater Glacier) growing 50 feet per year
       September 20, 2004 - See Mount St. Helens
       Glaciers growing on California's Mount Shasta!  
       12 Oct 03 - See Mount Shasta Glaciers Growing
       9 Jul 08 - See also California Glaciers Growing
       28 Mar 11 - See also Glaciers growing on Mt. Shasta
       

       Geologists Unexpectedly Find 100 Glaciers in Colorado  
       7 Oct 01 See Colorado Glaciers Growing  
       
       Washington's Nisqually Glacier Advancing
       But headline says "State's shrinking glaciers: Going ... going ... gone?"
       1 Nov 06 - As far as I’m concerned, this Seattle Times article is another
       case of misleading - if not downright dishonest - reporting.
       See Nisqually Glacier Advancing
       See also Nisqually Glacier

       Glaciers in Montana's Glacier Park on the verge of growing
       5 Oct 2002. See Glacier Park
       
       Antarctic Ice Sheet is growing thicker
       See  Antarctic Icecap Growing Thicker
       See Construction crane buried in the Antarctic Ice Sheet

       

   Largest glacier in Argentina advancing
   15 Jun 09 – "Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is (supposedly) one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.”
   See Largest glacier in Argentina advancing
   


   Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advancing 7 feet per day!
   10 May 09 – This from climatologist Cliff Harris of the Coeur d’Alene Press.
   It's possible that the glacier could close the fjord by later this summer if the
   current rate speeds up, says Harris.
   See Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advancing 7 feet per day!


   Glaciers growing on Glacier Peak, WA
   16 Oct 08 – Email from reader
   Before I moved to CO in 2005 it was obvious that the glaciers and snow
   had receded and rock was visible in areas all the way to the peak. The glaciers
   and snow are back now ... completely covered in white from top to bottom,
   and this is after the "warm" summer months here in the PNW.
   See Glaciers growing on Glacier Peak, WA
   .

   Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
   Scandinavian nation reverses trend, mirrors
   results in Alaska, elsewhere, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate.
   See Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
   


   Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding  
   Arctic ice cover above it’s 30-year average
   23 Nov 08 - A study published by the American Meteorological Society
   found that glaciers are only shrinking in the eastern Himalayas. Further
   west, in the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram, glaciers are "thickening
   and expanding".
   See Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding
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   Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years
   16 Oct 08 - High snowfall and cold weather to blame leading
   to the increase in glacial mass.
   See Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years
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   Growing Alaskan glaciers the start of a new Little Ice Age?
   14 Oct 08 – “Never before in the history of a research project dating back
   to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that
   came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.
   See Growing Alaskan glaciers the start of a new Little Ice Age?
   .
   .
   Himalayan Glaciers Not Shrinking
   Glacial Experts Question Theory of Global Warming
   15 Feb 07 - See Himalayan Glaciers Not Shrinking
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   .
   Many people have asked why some glaciers in South America are melting.
   I think it is perfectly understandable. Remember, we have had two of the
   strongest El Ninos on record during the past 21 years. During an El Nino,
   a narrow band of the Pacific Ocean warms by as much as 14 degrees. This
   band of warm water travels east essentially along the equator until it slams
   into South America.

   It seems logical that the increased rainfall caused by El Nino, plus the
   warmer winds blowing across the warmer water, could hasten glacial melt.
   But let me say it again. I do not believe that this is caused by humans, I think
   it is caused by the El Nino phenomenon, which is caused by underwater
   volcanism, which is increasing due to the ice-age cycle.

   With this said, let me point out many glaciers in South America remain
   stable, and some - including the Pio XI Glacier and the Perito Moreno
   Glacier - are growing. The Pio XI Glacier is the largest glacier in the
   southern hemisphere. The Moreno Glacier is the largest glacier in Patagonia.

   I find it curious that news reports do not mention these two glaciers.

   * * *

   Contrary to previous reports, Arctic ice did not thin during the 1990s, say
   researchers at the Department of Oceanography at Göteborg University in
   Göteborg, Sweden. http://www.envirotruth.org/images/ice-in-90s.pdf

   .
   .
   Alaska Glacier Surges -17 Mar 06
   See McGinnis Glacier  
   .
   .
   Look at what's happening on Mt. Baker, in Washington State.
   (Mt. Baker is near Mt. Shukson, where glaciers are now growing.)

   This is a photo of my friend Jim Terrell taken on
   Mt. Baker, Washington. Jim is more than six feet
   tall. See the black line about six feet above his head?
   That's where the snow from the winter of 1998/99
   stopped melting. Above that, is snow that never
   melted from the winter of 1999/2000. Why isn't
   the media reporting this sort of thing?
   
   

   Photo by Mazz Terrell
   19 July 2000

   ..
   Fast forward 11 years and we find...
   Snow still five stories deep on Mt. Baker road
   13 Jul 11 - “Deepest snow I’ve seen since the world-record year 1999, when the highway didn’t open for the summer,” says maintenance supervisor.
   See Snow still five stories deep on Mount Baker road


    Greenland Ice Cap Growing Thicker

So let's blame global warming

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20 Oct 2005 - Greenland 's ice-cap has thickened slightly in recent
years despite wide predictions of a thaw, scientists said today. Satellite
measurements show that more snowfall is thickening the ice-cap,
especially at high altitudes, according to the report in the journal Science.

"The overall ice thickness changes are ... approximately plus 5 cms
(1.9 inches) a year or 54 cms (21.26 inches) over 11 years," according
to the experts at Norwegian, Russian and U.S. institutes led by Ola
Johannessen at the Mohn Sverdrup center for Global Ocean Studies
and Operational Oceanography in Norway.

The article then blathers on about how this is consistent with global warming.

See more of this article at
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=274166+20-Oct-2005+RTRS&srch=GREENLAND
See also: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/10/21/greenland.icecap.reut/index.html
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Deep freeze in western Greenland
15 Feb 08 - The ice between Canada and southwestern
Greenland has reached its highest level in 15 years.
See Most Ice in 15 Years


Rate of discharge at two of Greenland’s largest glaciers slows
13 Feb 07 - Glacial Discharge Slows


Greenland glacier advancing 7.2 miles per year! The BBC recently ran a documentary, The Big Chill, saying that we could be on the verge of an ice age. Britain could be heading towards an Alaskan-type climate within a decade, say scientists, because the Gulf Stream is being gradually cut off. The Gulf Stream keeps temperatures unusually high for such a northerly latitude.

One of Greenland’s largest glaciers has already doubled its rate of advance, moving forward at the rate of 12 kilometers (7.2 miles) per year. To see a transcript of the documentary, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/bigchilltrans.shtml

Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
By Greg Roberts
18 Apr 09 - "Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the
widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap."
See Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
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No Global Warming in Antarctica
15 Sep 07 - "It's hard to see a global-warming signal from the
mainland of Antarctica right now," says head of Polar Meteorology
Group at the Byrd Polar Research Center
See No Global Warming in Antarctica
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Record snows crush historic Antarctic hut - 28 Nov 06
See Record Snows Crush Antarctic Hut
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Ice and snow piling up over a large area of Antarctica  
- 19 May 2005 - According to a new study published in the online edition of Science, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet gained about 45 billion tons of ice between 1992 and 2003. The ice sheets are several kilometers thick in places, and contain about 90% of the world's ice.

Using data from the European Space Agency's radar satellites ERS-1 and ERS-2, a research team from the University of Missouri, Columbia, measured changes in altitude over about 70% of Antarctica's interior. East Antarctica thickened at an average rate of about 1.8 centimeters per year over the time period studied, the researchers discovered.

The region comprises about 75% of Antarctica 's total land area and about 85% of the total ice volume. The area in question covers more than 2.75 million square miles - roughly the same size as the United States.

(This means that more than 90 percent of the world's glaciers are growing thicker … while the media keeps yelling about the ones that are melting.)

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050516/full/050516-10.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/20/science/20ICE.html

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Antarctic snow pack increasing 5 feet per year  
18 Jul 05 – Here’s another case where the media seems to be trying to hide the fact that snow levels are increasing in Antarctica. The headline, about the Halley VI research station, reads “Base on skis wins polar contract.”  The article then rambles on for ten paragraphs before almost mentioning that snow is accumulating in the area at the rate of five feet (1.5m) per year, and that “the previous four bases were all buried.”

Think about that. Snow is accumulating over an area bigger than the
continental United States. How in the world are sea levels supposed to rise, if so much moisture is getting locked up on land as ice? (They're not.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4693409.stm

Experts question theory on global warming
(Himalayan glaciers not shrinking)



New Delhi - 11 Feb 07 - Some glacial experts have questioned the alarmists theory on global warming leading to shrinkage of Himalayan glaciers. VK Raina, a leading glaciologist and former ADG of GSI is one among them.

He feels that the research on Indian glaciers is negligible. Nothing but the remote sensing data forms the basis of these alarmists observations and not on-the-spot research.

Raina told the Hindustan Times that out of 9,575 glaciers in India, research has been conducted only on about 50. Nearly 200 years data has shown that nothing abnormal has occurred in any of these glaciers.

The issue of glacial retreat is being sensationalised by a few individuals, the septuagenarian Raina claimed.

However, Dr RK Pachouri, Chairman, Inter-Governmental Panel of Climatic Change said it’s recently released fourth assessment report has recorded increased glacier retreat since the 1980s.

But Raina, who has been associated with the research and data collection in over 25 glaciers in India and abroad, debunked the theory that Gangotri glacier is retreating alarmingly.

Maintaining that the glaciers are undergoing natural changes witnessed periodically, he said recent studies in the Gangotri and Zanskar areas (Drung- Drung, Kagriz glaciers) have not shown any evidence of major retreat.

"Claims of global warming causing glacial melt in the Himalayas are based on wrong assumptions," said Raina, a trained mountaineer and skiing expert.

There are only about a dozen scientists working on glaciers in India under the aegis of the Geological Society of India. How can one talk about the state of glaciers when not much research is being done on the ground, he wondered.

In fact, it is difficult to ascertain the exact state of Himalayan glaciers as these are very dusty as compared to the ones in Alaska and the Alps. The present presumptions are based on the cosmatic study of the glacier surfaces.

Nobody knows what is happening. Whatever is being flaunted about the under surface activity of the glaciers is merely presumptions, he claimed.

His views were echoed by Dr RK Ganjoo, Director, Regional Centre for Field Operations and Research on Himalayan Glaciology, who is supervising study of glaciers in Ladakh region including one in the Siachen area. He also maintained that nothing abnormal has been found in any of the Himalyan glaciers studied so far by him.

Another leading geologist MN Koul of Jammu University, who is actively engaged in studying glacier dynamics in J&K and Himachal holds similar views. Referring to his research on Kol glacier ( Paddar, J&K) and Naradu (HP), he said both the glaciers have not changed much in the past two decades.

See full article by Anil Anand at:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1925164,0008.htm

   
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Click here to see list of specific glaciers that are growing
List of Expanding Glaciers


Glaciers growing on Mt. Shasta - Record snowfall to spur even more growth
28 Mar 11 - The media has done a great job of covering this up, but the fact is that all seven glaciers on California’s Mount Shasta are growing. See Glaciers growing on Mt. Shasta

Glaciers growing in Italy
8 Feb 11 - Glaciers are growing on two different mountains in Italy - Mount Canin and Mount Montasio. Will you see this in the main-stream media?
Glaciers growing in Italy


India - Record snowfall revives 2,000 glaciers
17 Feb 11 - Already more snowfall this month than
1998 record for the entire month. Think you'll see
this in the mainstream media?
See India - Record snowfall revives 2,000 glaciers

Area Of Thick Arctic Ice Doubled In Last Two Years
31 Dec 10 - It has doubled since 2008.



Antarctica - Highest September snowfall on record -
Third largest sea-ice extent
17 Oct 10 - September 2010 was the third largest sea ice extent on record, behind 2006 (largest) and 2007 (second largest).
See Antarctica - Highest September snowfall on record


Arctic Ice Thickening
2010 Ice Gain vs. 2008
27 Sep 10 - Don't let them scare
those global warming bucks right
out of your wallet.
See Arctic Ice Thickening


Giant Iceberg Breaks off Growing – Growing! - Greenland Glacier
12 Aug 10 – You’ve probably seen those articles about a huge ice island breaking off a Greenland glacier. Many of those articles are trying to blame global warming. But before you buy into that, please be aware that Petermann Glacier has been advancing for years.
Giant Iceberg Breaks off Growing – Growing! - Greenland Glacier



Glacier Accused of Global Warming Denies Allegation
Among other things, this article talks about "Gerry Mander, a spokesman for global warming guru Albert Arnold Bore, who won awards for his bullshit propaganda film ‘A Convenient Pack of Lies.’"
See Glacier Accused of Global Warming Denies Allegation


Ice-loss estimates double - even triple - the truth
8 Sep 10 - The rate at which ice is disappearing from Greenland
and Western Antarctica has been seriously overestimated, scientists
now admit. Antarctica as a whole is gaining ice.
See Ice-loss estimates double - even triple - the truth

Antarctic sea ice peaks at
third highest in satellite record
1 Jul 10 - But no mention in the
mainstream media
See Antarctic sea ice peaks at
third highest in satellite record

Melting of Greenland ice mimics 1920s-1940s event
Researchers see this as a cause for alarm, rather than proof that it's
simply part of a natural cycle and not driven by humans.
See Melting of Greenland ice mimics 1920s-1940s event


Bare-faced lies - glacier advances but headline
screams "global warming"
31 Jul 09 - Today the Daily Mail Reporter ran a series of
photos showing the rapid advance of the Breidamerkurjokull
glacier. But their headline shouted "How global warming is
changing the face of the northern hemisphere."
See Bare-faced lies - glacier advances but headline screams global warming


Antarctica growing colder - Ice expanding
18 Apr 09 - "Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica," says this
article. In addition, the South Pole has shown "significant cooling
in recent decades".
See Antarctica growing colder - Ice expanding


Contrarian New Zealand Glaciers Keep Growing
3 May 09 - We keep hearing that the world's glaciers are retreating, but
this article admits that some, including glaciers south of the equator in South
America and New Zealand, are still growing.
See Contrarian New Zealand Glaciers Keep Growing


Glacier scientist knew data hadn't been verified
2035 melting date plucked from thin air
Himalayan glaciers in Karakoram range actually growing rapidly
24 Jan 10 - "The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning
UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted
it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders."
See Glacier scientist knew data not verified


Largest glacier in Argentina advancing
15 Jun 09 – "Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is (supposedly) one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.”
See Largest glacier in Argentina advancing



Melting Himalayan glaciers - Not an iota of scientific evidence
20 Jan 10 - "The health of the glaciers is a cause of grave concern,
but the IPCC's alarmist position that they would melt by 2035 was
not based on an iota of scientific evidence," says India's Environment
Minister Jairam Ramesh.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/globalwarming/2010-01-20-
un-panel-himalayan-glaciers_N.htm


Glaciers Growing in
Western Himalayas
24 May 09 – In a defiant act
of political incorrectness, some
230 glaciers in the western
Himalayas - including Mount Everest, K2 and Nanga
Parbat - are actually growing. See Glaciers Growing in Western Himalayas



Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding
23 Nov 08 - A study published by the American Meteorological Society
found that glaciers are only shrinking in the eastern Himalayas. Further
west, in the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram, glaciers are "thickening
and expanding".
See Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding


Ice not paying attention to warm-mongers
Arctic sea ice thickening
12 Oct 09 – “As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists
report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest
in three decades. Clearly, Arctic sea ice is not following the consensus touted
by Gore and the warm-mongers.”
See Arctic sea ice thickening


Arctic sea-ice 500,000 square kilometers (190,000 sq miles)
more than at this time last year
By Christopher Booker
05 Sep 09 – "The extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq miles)
greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more
than in September 2007."
See Arctic sea-ice 500,000 sq km more than last year


Chacaltaya glacier - unfortunate symbol for the IPCC
26 Jan 10 - Bolivia’s rapidly diminishing Chacaltaya glacier is a widely used symbol of human-caused global warming. However, this glacier's retreat is demonstrably not due to increasing temperatures caused by CO2 emissions.
See Chacaltaya glacier - an unfortunate symbol for the IPCC



Extra ice time fattens up polar bears
19 Aug 09 - "The cooler-than-usual summer produced thicker ice on
Hudson Bay, giving the area's polar bear population several extra days
to feed on tasty ringed seals."
See Extra ice time fattens up polar bears

Oops - West Antarctic Ice Sheet
not losing ice as fast as we thought
20 Oct 09 — New measurements by
GPS Network suggest the rate of ice
loss of the West Antarctic ice sheet
has been slightly overestimated.
See Oops - West Antarctic Ice Sheet not losing ice as fast as we thought


Greenland icecap thickens slightly "despite warming"
20 Oct 05 - Greenland's ice-cap has thickened slightly in recent years
despite wide predictions of a thaw triggered by global warming, a team
of scientists said on Thursday.
See Greenland icecap thickens slightly


Indian Scientists Debunk UN Glacier Retreat Claim
28 Aug 09 – Disputing the forecast made by the IPCC that the
glaciers in the world's highest mountain range could vanish within
three decades, V. K. Raina, a leading glaciologist and former
Additional Director-General of Geological Survey of India (GSI),
claimed recently that the glaciers are undergoing natural changes
which are witnessed periodically.
See Indian Scientists Debunk UN Glacier Retreat Claim


Hubbard Glacier refuses
to fade away
18 Jul 09 - A few weeks ago I ran an article about Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advancing seven feet per day. Here's a lot more info on Hubbard Glacier, including a link where you can track its progress. See
Hubbard Glacier refuses to fade away


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Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier still advancing, but at a slower pace
By Climatologist Cliff Harris
30 Jun 09 – It appears to be continuing its advance into the fjord and
should eventually (maybe as early as next year, but almost certainly
within the next thirty or forty years) wrap itself around Gilbert Point
and turn the fjord into a glacier formed lake.
See Alaska’s Hubbard Glacier still advancing


Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advancing 7 feet per day!
10 May 09 – This from climatologist Cliff Harris of the Coeur d’Alene Press.
It's possible that the glacier could close the fjord by later this summer if the
current rate speeds up, says Harris.
See Alaska's Hubbard Glacier advancing 7 feet per day!


New Zealand Glaciers Growing "Despite Global Warming"
15 May 09 –Today the New Zealand Herald (page A12) announced that
"The Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers are still growing, despite global warming, ..."
See New Zealand Glaciers Growing Despite Global Warming
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Alaska’s ice thickens over unusual summer
By Climatologist Cliff Harris
9 Jun 09 – “Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came
the winter and summer of 2007-2008. "In mid-June, I was surprised to see
snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said USGS glaciologist Bruce
Molnia. Bering Glacier did not become snow free until early August.
See Alaska’s ice thickens over unusual summer


Arctic ice twice as thick as expected
By Christopher Booker
9 May 09 - "As the clock ticks down towards December's historic
UN Copenhagen conference on climate change, the frenzied efforts of the
warmists to panic us over all that vanishing Arctic and Antarctic ice are
degenerating into farce."
See Arctic ice twice as thick as expected ..
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Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
By Greg Roberts
18 Apr 09 - "Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the
widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap."
See Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
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Antarctic sea ice up 4.7% since 1980 - where is the media?
5 Apr 09 – Yes, you read that right. The amount of sea ice around Antarctic has increased 4.7% since 1980. Yet all we hear about are the comparatively tiny areas where the ice is melting. Where is the media? See
Antarctic sea ice up 4.7% since 1980




Arctic Sea-Ice Extent:
Updated Daily
7 Apr 09 – Here’s a website
that shows the daily extent of
Arctic Sea Ice from 2002
until the present.
See
Arctic Sea-Ice Extent:
Updated Daily


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Oops. We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice
19 Feb 09 – Today, the National Snow and Ice
Data Center (NSIDC) admitted that they’ve underreported Arctic ice extent by 193,000 square miles (500,000 sq km). That's the size of 10 states!
See We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice

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Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
Scandinavian nation reverses trend, mirrors
results in Alaska, elsewhere, reports the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate.
See Glaciers in Norway Growing Again


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Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding
Arctic ice cover above it’s 30-year average
23 Nov 08 - A study published by the American Meteorological Society
found that glaciers are only shrinking in the eastern Himalayas. Further
west, in the Hindu Kush and the Karakoram, glaciers are "thickening
and expanding".
See Glaciers in western Himalayas thickening and expanding
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New Study Finds Greenland Ice Melt not changing
3 Jul 08 - A new Dutch study of 17 years of satellite measurements of ice
movement in western Greenland concludes that the speedup of the ice is a
transient summertime phenomenon.
See New Study Finds Greenland Ice Melt not changing
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Glaciers growing on Canada’s tallest mountain
17 Nov 08 – The ice-covered peak of Yukon's soaring Mount Logan
may be due for an official re-measurement after readings that suggest
this country's superlative summit has experienced a growth spurt.
See Glaciers growing on Canada’s tallest mountain
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Arctic Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Rate in Recorded History
7 Nov 08 - An abnormally cool Arctic is seeing dramatic changes to
ice levels. The total amount of ice, which set a record low last year,
grew in October at the fastest pace since record-keeping began in 1979.
See Arctic Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Rate in Recorded History
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Antarctic Ice Sheet growing
enough to lower sea levels
This paper, published in 2006, shows
that the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining
enough ice to lower – lower! - global
sea levels by 0.08 mm year.
See Antarctic Ice Sheet growing
enough to lower sea levels


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Alaska's Glaciers Are Growing
By Dennis T. Avery - 28 Oct 08 – “Alaska’s glaciers grew this year, after
shrinking for most of the last 200 years. The reason? Global temperatures
dropped over the past 18 months. The global mean annual temperature has
been declining recently because the solar wind thrown out by the sun has
retreated to its smallest extent in at least 50 years.
See Alaska's Glaciers Are Growing
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Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years
16 Oct 08 - High snowfall and cold weather to blame leading
to the increase in glacial mass.
See Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years
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Much of Antarctica has been cooling for the last 35 years
Thirteen researchers found that temperatures dropped an average of
1.23 degrees Fahrenheit per decade from 1986 to 2000.
See Much of Antarctica has been cooling for the last 35 years
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Climate change chicanery
Less ice in the Arctic in 1893 than today
14 Sep 08 – Lewis Gordon Pugh tried to paddle a kayak to the Pole
to demonstrate the vanishing Arctic ice. While still 600 miles short of
his goal, he met with ice so thick that he had to turn back. Conveniently
forgotten, is that in 1893 the Arctic was so ice-free that a Norwegian
explorer was able to kayak above 82 degrees north, 100 miles nearer
he Pole.
See Climate change chicanery
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Alaskan glaciers advance one-third mile in less than a year
17 Jul 07 - "At least three glaciers in the same bay have advanced
in one year," says scientist at the Geophysical Institute at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alaskan Glaciers Advance One-Third Mile


Arctic ice INCREASES by nearly a half million square miles
over same time period in 2007
18 Jul 08 - Excerpt: the latest information on Arctic ice conditions is
just in from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
See Arctic ice INCREASES by nearly a half million square miles
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California Glaciers Growing …
so let’s rhapsodize about global warming
9 Jul 08 – An AP article today admits that all seven
glaciers on California’s Mount Shasta are growing,
then goes on to rhapsodize about global warming.
See California Glaciers Growing


Against odds, glacier grows in cauldron of Mt. St. Helens
15 May 08 – Inside the Mount St. Helens volcano "an unexpected
phenomenon is taking place: a glacier is growing." “It may be the only
growing glacier in America - or maybe the world. What a lie!
See Glacier grows in cauldron of Mt. St. Helens


Antarctic glaciers surge due to volcanic activity?
24 Feb 08 - Much higher up the glacier there is evidence of a volcano that erupted
through the ice about 2,000 years ago. "The whole region could be volcanically active,
releasing geothermal heat to melt the base of the ice and help its slide towards the sea."
See Antarctic glaciers surge to ocean


Magma May Be Melting Greenland Ice
18 Dec 07 - I added another article to this posting
13 Dec 07 - Scientists have found at least one natural-magma hotspot under
the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth’s insides could seep through,
See Magma May Be Melting Greenland Ice


Did earthquake trigger Antarctic ice collapse?
27 Mar 08 - There's been little or no publicity about an earthquake
on the Pacific-Antarctic ridge 3930 km (2440 miles) SE of Wellington,
New Zealand on 17 March 08.
See Did earthquake trigger Antarctic ice collapse?
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Antarctic Ice Disappearing? Don’t you believe it
27 Mar 08 - "It’s a naturally occurring event," says Hans Schreuder,
"a MINOR event in world or Antarctic terms.
Here’s a map showing just how small an area it is."
http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/Antarctic.html
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It appears that Arctic ice isn't vanishing after all
4 Feb 08 - The latest satellite findings of northern hemisphere
sea ice area show it almost back to 13 million sq km.
See Arctic ice isn't vanishing after all
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Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back
19 Feb 08 - A Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express
showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than
usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing
arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing
global warming.
See Most snow cover since 1966
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Deep freeze in western Greenland
15 Feb 08 - The ice between Canada and southwestern
Greenland has reached its highest level in 15 years.
See Most Ice in 15 Years
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Too Much Ice: Polar Bears Starving
16 Feb 08 - Al Gore says the polar bear need more ice to survive...
Now we have a lot of ice, but the polar bear is starving and find
their food at the garbage dumps in towns.
See Too Much Ice
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Ice returns as Greenland temperatures plummet
16 Jan 08 - A brutal cold snap is raging across Greenland.
See Greenland Temperatures Plummet
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Arctic Ice Freezing at Record Rate
12 Dec 07 - Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day for
10 days in late October and early November, a new record.
See Arctic Ice Freezing at Record Rate


Glaciers Growing in France and Switzerland
28 Jun 07 – This news comes from a recent article in
the Journal of Geophysical Research.
See Glaciers Growing in France and Switzerland
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Mount St. Helens’ Crater Glacier Advancing Three Feet Per Day
25 Jun 07 - See Crater Glacier
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Fox, Franz Josef glaciers defy trend
New Zealand's two best-known glaciers
still on the march - 31 Jan 07
See Franz Josef Glacier
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Manipulation of public perceptions
4 Dec 07 - While the media raised alarms over Arctic ice melt, they did
not report that Antarctic winter sea ice extent was the greatest on record.
See Manipulation of public perceptions
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Reports of Record Arctic Ice Melt Disgracefully Ignore History - 9 Sep 07
See Reports of Record Arctic Ice Melt Disgracefully Ignore History
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Mt. Blanc Glaciers Refuse to Shrink
"Geodetic measurements carried out in 1905 and 2005 on the highest ice fields of the Mont Blanc range indicate small thickness changes and show that these very high-elevation glaciated areas have not been significantly affected by climate change over the last 100 years."
See Mt Blanc Glaciers Refuse to Shrink


Himalayan Glaciers Not Shrinking
Glacial Experts Question Theory of Global Warming
15 Feb 07 - See Himalayan Glaciers Not Shrinking
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Re-freeze begins in Arctic seas
22 Sep 07 - Arctic ice now covers 1.61 million
square miles, up from 1.59 million on September 16.
See Re-freeze Begins
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No Global Warming in Antarctica
See No Global Warming in Antarctica
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See also Greenland Icecap Growing Thicker
and Antarctic Icecap Growing Thicker
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Rate of discharge at two of Greenland’s largest glaciers slows
13 Feb 07 - Glacial Discharge Slows
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Record snows crush historic Antarctic hut - 28 Nov 06
See Record Snows Crush Antarctic Hut
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing – Sea Levels Falling
8 Nov 06 - Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing – Sea Levels Falling
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Another iceberg sighting -12 Nov 06
See Another New Zealand Iceberg
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Large icebergs headed toward New Zealand coast
See Icebergs Spotted off New Zealand
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Greenland losing about 100 billion tons of ice a year
That’s what the headline says. But when you get into the article
you learn that the rate of loss is much lower than other research
has suggested. (Less than half.)
See A hundred years for sea levels to rise half-an-inch
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Antarctica growing colder - Measurements from NOAA show that
the vast preponderance of Antarctica cooled from 1982 to 2004.
See Antarctica Growing Colder
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Himalayan glaciers not melting the way we’re being told - 17 Oct 06
Glaciers in the Himalayas have not drastically shrunk and are unlikely
to melt away in coming decades, said Chinese scientists Zhang Wenjing.
See Himalayan glaciers not melting
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Antarctic Cooling Five Times Faster Than in Past 150 Years
See Antarctic Cooling Picks Up Speed
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Yet More Glaciers Growing Due to "Global Warming" - 11 Sep 06
See More Glaciers Growing
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Glaciers growing because of "global warming," new study claims
24 Aug 06 - See Glaciers growing because of global warming
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Ice and snow piling up over a large area of Antarctica - 19 May 2005 -
See Antarctic Icecap Growing Thicker
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Antarctic snow pack increasing 5 feet per year - 18 Jul 05 –
See Antarctic Icecap Growing Thicker
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See also Greenland Icecap Growing Thicker
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Glaciers growing because of global warming, new study claims
24 Aug 06 - See Glaciers growing because of global warming
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Fifty of New Zealand's glaciers are growing -12 Jan 06
Two are advancing about three feet (one meter) a week.
Rare Icebergs Spotted off New Zealand - 6 Jan 05
See New Zealand Glaciers Growing
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Greenland glaciers double their rate of advance - 3 Feb 06 -
See Rate_of_Advance_Doubles
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Snow Job -
The truth about the great overhyped glacier melt
June 5, 2006 - The total worldwide ice loss is equivalent
to a sea-level rise of 0.05 mm per year. “At that rate, it
would take a full 20,000 years to rise by a meter.
See excerpts from Snow Job
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Icebreakers can’t keep up - 5 Jul 06
Icebreakers are having trouble getting through unusual ice build-up in McMurdo Sound.
See Ice Breakers Can't Keep Up.
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Glaciers Skating Away Fast!

That's what the headline says. But when you read the article you find that the Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier southeast of Greenland is advancing at the rate of more than seven miles (12 km) per year!

See Glaciers Skating Away


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Some glaciers in South America, including the Pio XI and Moreno Glaciers, are growing.
Chile's Pio XI Glacier is the largest glacier in the southern hemisphere.
The Moreno Glacier is the largest glacier in Argentina. I
find it curious that news reports do not mention these two huge glaciers.
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Click here to read this page in Spanish
http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/Calen2/Glaciares.html
(Thanks to Eduardo Ferreyra, of the Argentinean
Foundation for a Scientific Ecology, for the translation)

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Antarctic glaciers surging - Masses of Antarctic ice have been moving twice as fast as usual, say researchers in a recent article in Science. Five of the six glacial tributaries that fed the Larsen Ice Shelf have entered "active surging phases." It is clear, they said, that the Boydell, Sjogren, Edgeworth, Bombardier and Drygalski glaciers are all surging. Mar 9, 2003. The Seattle Times.

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Russian glaciers surging - On September 20, 2002, a huge 22-million ton piece of the gigantic Maili Glacier broke loose and crashed down a steep gorge into the village of Kami killing more than 150 people and injuring hundreds more.

The 500-foot wall of ice had been growing for six years. The Maili Glacier is just one of several glaciers in the North Caucasus Mountains that have been EXPANDING at an alarming rate. Other towns in the region have been partially buried by these advancing walls of ice. One local scientist in southern Russia said, "we may be seeing the beginning of a new great ice age!!!" (Thanks to climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann for this info.)

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Antarctic growing colder. Although the Antarctic Peninsula-a thin sliver of land that juts above the Antarctic Circle-has been warming, temperatures in the vast empty spaces of East Antarctica have been falling for decades. (Time, "Cracking the Ice, 3 Feb 2003)
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030203-411420.00.html

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Greenland growing colder. Studies of historical meteorological data show that temperatures in this northern polar region have been falling. Over the last 40 or 50 years there has been "statistically significant cooling, particularly in south-western coastal Greenland. Sea-surface temperatures in the Labrador Sea also fell. The studies were made by Dr. Edward Hanna, from the University of Plymouth, UK, and Dr. John Cappelen, of the Danish Meteorological Institute, and presented in the Journal of Geophysical Review Letters. BBC News. 11 March 2003. http://news.bbc.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2840137.stm

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Russia abandons Ice Station Vostok. Mar 4, 2003. For the first time ever, Russia is forced to abandon its base at Vostok. Due to heavier than usual pack ice, supply ships have been unable to reach their usual docking berths, leaving them unable to deliver fuel and supplies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2818025.stm

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Alaska's Hubbard Glacier surging. Yakutat, Alaska. July 15, 2002. Bulldozing a gravel moraine in front of it, the Hubbard Glacier is advancing so rapidly that has nearly cut off Russell Fiord from Disenchantment Bay. The resulting ice and gravel dam is cutting off the supply of salt water, turning Russell Fiord into Russell Lake, endangering the small fishing village of Yakutat.

Russell "Lake" is now rising at the rate of six inches a day as freshwater from snowmelt and rainfall continues pouring in. Once the lake level rises to about 130 feet, it will begin spilling over into the nearby Situk River basin, flooding the usually tranquil stream. This would all but destroy the world-class salmon and steelhead fishing in the area, and devastate Yakutat's economy.

The Hubbard Glacier, 73 miles long and 6 miles wide at the face, is the largest tidewater glacier in North America.

See http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public_affairs/press_releases/pr1597m.html

For real time water level readings at Russell Lake, see
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ak/nwis/uv?site_no=15130000&agency_cd=USGS

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Ice dam collapses, creating second largest glacial flood in historic times. http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public_affairs/press_releases/pr1638m.htm

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Melting glacier 'false alarm.' Aug 22, 2002. News Telegraph. Pictures claiming to show how man-made global warming has caused Arctic glaciers to retreat are at best misleading, says leading glaciologist.

The pictures, which compared the size of a glacier on Svalbard in 1918 with its size in 2002, included the warning that global warming caused by man-made greenhouse gases was causing Arctic glaciers to melt.

Those assertions are misleading at best, says Professor Ole Humlum, a leading Norwegian glaciologist. "That glacier had already disappeared in the early 1920s," says Humlum. "[It disappeared] as a result of a perfectly natural rise in temperature that had nothing to do with man-made global warming." See http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/17/wglac17.xml

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Extreme cold over South Pole reveals global warming models are wrong. Auckland (AFP) Sep 10, 2002. A discovery that it is much colder over the South Pole than believed has exposed a major flaw in the computer models used to predict global warming.

Scientists based at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have found that it is 36 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit (20 to 30 degrees C) colder than computer models showed.

The findings, by Chester Gardner, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Weilin Pan, a doctoral student at Illinois, and Ray Roble of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, published their findings in the American Geophysical Union Letters. See spacedaily.com/news/020910020829.wq287cho.html
http://www.iceagenow.com/List_of_Expanding_Glaciers.htm

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Grand Rapids breaks century-old record for snowfall

This week's stretch of seemingly never-ending snowfall earned Grand Rapids residents some bragging rights.

Snowfall totals for Grand Rapids so far this month have made for the snowiest November on record, with 28.4 inches that accumulated as of 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, according to the National Weather Service. The previous record of 28.2 inches was set in 1895.

The city has been hit with 23.5 inches of lake-effect snow since Monday, and this week's winter storm currently ranks fifth among the top-10 all-time snowfall totals in a four-day span. A stretch at the end of December in 2001 holds the top spot with 32.4 inches.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/11/snowiest_november_grand_rapids.html

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um, are you sure about that?


Are glaciers growing or retreating?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/himalayan-glaciers-growing-basic.htm

Although Glaciologists measure year-to-year changes in glacier activity, it is the long term changes which provide the basis for statements such as "Global Glacier Recession Continues". Some Skeptics confuse these issues by cherry picking individual glaciers or by ignoring long term trends. Diversions such as these do not address the most important question of what is the real state of glaciers globally?

The answer is not only clear but it is definitive and based on the scientific literature. Globally glaciers are losing ice at an extensive rate (Figure 1). There are still situations in which glaciers gain or lose ice more than typical for one region or another but the long term trends are all the same, and about 90% of glaciers are shrinking worldwide (Figure 2).

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Figure 1: Long-term changes in glacier volume adapted from Cogley 2009.


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Figure 2: Percentage of shrinking and growing glaciers in 2008–2009, from the 2011 WGMS report

It is also very important to understand that glacier changes are not only dictated by air temperature changes but also by precipitation. Therefore, there are scenarios in which warming can lead to increases in precipitation (and thus glacier ice accumulation) such as displayed in part of southwestern Norway during the 1990s (Nesje et al 2008).

The bottom line is that glacier variations can be dependent on localized conditions but that these variations are superimposed on a clear and evident long term global reduction in glacier volume which has accelerated rapidly since the 1970s.

also see: http://www.skepticalscience.com/himalayan-glaciers-growing-intermediate.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850


Signs From Earth: The Big Thaw


The Consequences of Global Warming On Glaciers and Sea Levels


Melting Glaciers:
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Switzerland’s Trift glacier retreated by more than 600 feet between 2004, left, and 2005.


Why Asia's Glaciers Are Mysteriously Expanding, Not Melting


Recent Glacial Melt Mostly Caused By Man-Made Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Study Finds


Melting glaciers are caused by man-made global warming, study shows


Melt of Key Antarctic Glaciers ‘Unstoppable,’ Studies Find
 
TRUE LIBERTY said:
Grand Rapids breaks century-old record for snowfall

This week's stretch of seemingly never-ending snowfall earned Grand Rapids residents some bragging rights.

Snowfall totals for Grand Rapids so far this month have made for the snowiest November on record, with 28.4 inches that accumulated as of 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, according to the National Weather Service. The previous record of 28.2 inches was set in 1895.

The city has been hit with 23.5 inches of lake-effect snow since Monday, and this week's winter storm currently ranks fifth among the top-10 all-time snowfall totals in a four-day span. A stretch at the end of December in 2001 holds the top spot with 32.4 inches.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/11/snowiest_november_grand_rapids.html

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...somehow I can just see Scare Gore doing just that... :lol: :lol: :s :s
 
@Webster, i've been noticing, instead of being your old freethinker you, you've been blindly ignoring truth and band-waging on liberty and his crazy political theories and lies...

the proof is in the pudding, facts don't lie... climate change and global warming is very real...

and it's 100% not a laughing or joking matter...

it's a very serious matter and issue that all humans face...
 
*looks over towards Justice* Oh, I'm still my free-thinking self, thank you very much....but its' now w/a more decidedly conservative bent. Scary, I know but still...
 
not scary, just a little sad...

but good for you... :tup:
 
+Justice said:
um, are you sure about that?

As shown above yes I am very sure they are growing on every part of the world that has glaciers. This winter is looking to be pretty cold and will be the jump the shark moment for man made global warming worshipers.

New paper finds the majority of East Antarctic glaciers have advanced in size since 1990

A new paper published in Nature finds that a majority of the outlet glaciers along the East Antarctic ice sheet have advanced in size over the past 20 years from 1990 to 2010. According to the paper, “Despite large fluctuations between glaciers—linked to their size—three [significant] patterns emerged: 63 per cent of glaciers retreated from 1974 to 1990, 72 per cent advanced from 1990 to 2000, and 58 per cent advanced from 2000 to 2010.” According to the authors, “In the 1970s and 80s, temperatures were rising and most glaciers retreated. During the 1990s, temperatures decreased and most glaciers advanced. And the 2000s saw temperatures increase and then decrease, leading to a more even mix of retreat and advance.” “When it was warm and the sea-ice decreased, most glaciers retreated, but when it was cooler and the sea ice increased, the glaciers advanced.” [Note: Antarctic sea ice is currently near record-high levels]
Excerpt from the paper:

http://www.climatedepot.com/2013/08/30/new-paper-finds-the-majority-of-east-antarctic-glaciers-have-advanced-in-size-since-1990/

Our glaciers are growing, not melting - More falsehoods from Al Gore

“Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising,” said Al Gore -in an op-ed piece in the New York Times on February 27.

Both parts of Gore’s statement are false.

8 Mar 10 - “Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting—and seas are rising,” said Al Gore -in an op-ed piece in the New York Times on February 27.

Both parts of Gore’s statement are false.

Never mind that Mr. Gore makes only passing reference to the IPCC’s fraudulent claims that the Himalayan glaciers will all melt by 2035. (“A flawed overestimate,” he explains.)

Never mind that Mr. Gore dismisses the IPCC’s fraudulent claims that the oceans are rising precipitously. (“Partly inaccurate,” he huffs.)

Never mind that Mr. Gore completely ignores the admission by the CRU’s disgraced former director Phil Jones that global temperatures have essentially remained unchanged for the past 15 years.

I’ll let someone else dissect Gore’s lawyering comments, and concentrate on just the one sentence about melting ice, because neither part of that sentence is true.

Contrary to Gore’s assertions, almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are growing, not melting—and the seas are not rising.

Let’s look at the facts.

If you click on the words “are melting” in Gore’s article, you’re taken to a paper by Michael Zemp at the University of Zurich. Mr. Zemp begins his paper by warning that “glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates.”

However, if you bother to actually read the paper, you learn that Zemp’s conclusion is based on measurements of “more than 80 glaciers.”

Considering that the Himalayas boast more than 15,000 glaciers, a study of “more than 80 glaciers” hardly seems sufficient to warrant such a catastrophic pronouncement.

Especially when you learn that of those 80 glaciers, several are growing.

Growing. Not melting.

“In Norway, many maritime glaciers were able to gain mass,” Zemp concedes. (“Able to gain mass” means growing.)

In North America, Zemp also concedes, “some positive values were reported from the North Cascade Mountains and the Juneau Ice Field.” (“Displaying positive values” means growing.)

Remember, we’re still coming out of the last ice age. Ice is supposed to melt as we come out of an ice age. The ice has been melting for 11,000 years. Why should today be any different? I’m guessing that most Canadians and Northern Europeans are very happy that the ice has been melting.

Unfortunately, that millenniums-long melting trend now appears to be changing. No matter how assiduously Mr. Gore tries to ignore it, almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are now gaining mass. (Or, displaying positive values, if you will.)http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/our-glaciers-are-growing-not-melting-more-falsehoods-from-al-gore/


Ice caps and glaciers growing around the world, penguins looking for warmth!

30 years later, Arctic and Antarctic ice has actually increased, and is growing at fastest rate in recorded history.

Next time you see the news reports of "catastrophic" ice loss at the poles, try to remember you're watching a ratings-oriented entertainment program driven by hysteria and propaganda. Ditto for the Greenpeace rallies chock full of 'climate change' propaganda to secure their funding. Ditto for Al Gore's un-scientific Star Trek film, now proven to be bursting with junk science. Now, check the facts for yourself. Why do we continue to hear the scare stories about Antarctic ice vanishing when it is, in fact, breaking records for ice growth? Well, it's simple. Your local media outlet always shows you seemingly amazing images of massive melting and chunks of ice breaking away -- but always neglect to mention that it is normal, and happens every single year during the spring/summer melt. Oh, and it's been happening since forever began, by the way.

Be aware when they show the "before" and "after" pictures on your 6 o'clock news. The "before" pictures are always from the winter season and the "after" are summer images. So, to properly educate you, take a look at actual images of ice concentrations from the same time of year in comparison, spread out over three decades. Not only is the interior growing but so is the sea ice. Sea ice levels are higher now than when satellite records began.

Antarctic Ice Extent and Concentration for October 1979 and October 2008


From the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado
http://www.iloveco2.com/2009/01/ice-caps-and-glaciers-growing-around.html

Study Finds Most East Antarctica Glaciers Are Growing


By Paul Homewood



Research by scientists at Durham University has found that the majority of glaciers in East Antarctica have been advancing since 1990.


Rapid, climate-driven changes in outlet glaciers on the Pacific coast of East Antarctica

ABSTRACT

Observations of ocean-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland and West Antarctica indicate that their contribution to sea level is accelerating as a result of increased velocity, thinning and retreat. Thinning has also been reported along the margin of the much larger East Antarctic ice sheet, but whether glaciers are advancing or retreating there is largely unknown, and there has been no attempt to place such changes in the context of localized mass loss or climatic or oceanic forcing. Here we present multidecadal trends in the terminus position of 175 ocean-terminating outlet glaciers along 5,400 kilometres of the margin of the East Antarctic ice sheet, and reveal widespread and synchronous changes. Despite large fluctuations between glaciers—linked to their size—three epochal patterns emerged: 63 per cent of glaciers retreated from 1974 to 1990, 72 per cent advanced from 1990 to 2000, and 58 per cent advanced from 2000 to 2010.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/study-finds-most-east-antarctica-glaciers-are-growing/


http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/study-finds-most-east-antarctica-glaciers-are-growing/
 

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