There Is A Lava-Spewing Volcano Under Ice Sheets Of Antarctica

Volcano Eruption Under Antarctica Ice Sheet Confirmed

Under Ice Volcano Found In Antarctica

Massive Volcano Beneath Antarctic Ice

Ancient Global Dimming Linked To Volcanic Eruption

Scientists Seek Climate Clues On Antarctic Voyage

King Penguins At Risk

Do You Think The Threat Of Global Warming Will Breathe Life Into The Post-Apocalyptic Genre?

536 AD And All That

No ‘Consensus’ On Climate

Climate Meltdown Isn’t Happening…

***Scientists set off on a voyage to Antarctica to see if the icesheets at the edge of the vast continent are melting faster and whether the Southern Ocean is soaking up less climate-warming carbon dioxide. I dont think cold turkey on fossil fuel is even remotely feasible within a 30-50 year span, but Gore wasnt advocating that - rather a whole series of small measures which together bring down CO2. You can use your votes to live in a pretend-world where global warming isnt happening but that wont stop temperatures rising. Can we put your country down for say 2 million refugees? You think anti-CO2 measures will cause instability but that nothing on what climate change will bring. Oh, and every natural cycle is still working bringing ups and downs with it. Will you scream global warming has stopped with cycle or look at the long term trend? Note also the prediction that 2007, 2008 would be steady (and thats without the La Nina).  Those in disbelief of mankind caused global warming do NOT want pollution and would love to some day have an alternate means of energy. However, we are not Chicken Little that goes around panicking because a glacier is melting or the climate is naturally changing in certain areas. We hate smog as much as the hippies, but would rather a reasonable and practical solution to problems be given, not something that removes our freedoms or ruins our economy. We also believe until that solution is found, we should make the best efforts to continue scientific research to improve and clean up OIL use, AND for God’s sake drill for oil that sits in abundance right under our feet! We can then be free, and frankly, strong enough, financially, to Did you ever wonder why “Greenland” was named that? It’s a hunk of snow and ice right now. Yet, it used to be a warmer place that was green and fully capable of crop growing and supporting life, hence its name. There are so many aspects of the earths weather that can change situations and climate. The most powerful being the sun itself. The sun goes through periods of higher output and lower output. Water vapor, volcanoes, axis tilt, clouds, Earth’s magnetic field, ocean salinity, etc. etc. all contribute to climate, not just CO2 or methane. Real scientific study has found out that CO2 and methane levels change AFTER climate change and not before. You can’t just pick one or two variables out of a complex equation and plug them into a “Thanks for the reminders on the importance of skepticism. I hope you approach AGW with healthy skepticism, as I do. I did not come to accept AGW lightly. I first became aware of the issue in the late 80s and early 90s. At the time, the best science could do was predict warming with a 50% probability. I remained a skeptic, fence sitter, and data watcher for the next 12 years. It is only in the last 3 or so years that I have come to find the evidence compelling. I do still ask with every piece of data that comes if we are seeing a streak that will end soon or the beginning of a long term trend. I still ask what would I expect the data to look like if AGW is in effect and what would I expect the data to look like if it is not. Observational data seems to indicate warming over the last century. The correlation with with ghg is striking, but insufficient without a mechanism. The mechanism has been known since Arrhenius at the turn of the last century and has been replicated in the lab. The models seem to reasonably reconstruct past climate and so might provide reasonable predictions going forward. Still, I sat on the fence. It was the predictions that began to win me over. The patterns of temperature rise - not so much an increase in daytime highs, but higher nighttime lows. The patterns of precipitation - for our region snowfall starting later in the fall and melting earlier in the spring***

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