 Poster: A snowHead
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| The small ice caps of Mont Blanc and the Dôme du Goûter are not melting, or at least, not yet. This is what CNRS researchers have announced in the Journal of Geophysical Research. At very high altitudes (above 4200 meters), the accumulation of snow and ice has varied very little since the beginning of the 20th century. But if summer temperatures increase by a few degrees during the 21st century, the melt could become more marked, and could affect the "permanent" ice fields. |
http://www.physorg.com/news98538735.html
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So if we call a glacier an ice field then there will be no global warming problem to worry about. Brilliant!
I can then proceed to book my next season's skiing holiday while the going is good.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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presumably at that elevation the size of an ice cap/field/glacier is determined more by precipitation levels than small variations in temperature
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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its climate change not global warming
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The world has been heating up for the past 15k years. Since the end of the Ice Age. It is going to get warmer.
Those ice fields will eventually melt, probably some time before the 23rd century.
Then they will return during the next Ice Age.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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CANV CANVINGTON, it's called climate change but the central premise is still global warming
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Whitegold, I totally agree
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...after the gulf stream gets f**ked up because of global warming and we're plunged into the next ice age
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Whitegold, prove it - you weren't around 15k years ago, nor was there accurate temperature measurement then, all you are basing your theory on is extrapolation of data based on models. Models are not facts. Temperature change in the last 30 years is greater than it has been in the last 300 (notice I have chosen time spans during which thermometric measurements have actually been recorded, not guessed at). If a glacier has melted at a considerably faster rate in the last 20 years than in the previous 20, does that tell us something, or is "Mother Nature"  just keeping on going, with no change brought about by human influence?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You still don't know how to construct a paragraph Whitegold . 
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You know it makes sense.
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Wear The Fox Hat,
Presumably you can support your statement
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| a glacier has melted at a considerably faster rate in the last 20 years than in the previous 20 |
with with the recorded cubic metres of water melted each year, so that there is no extrapolation involved.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Also, as the volume of ice gets smaller, the rate of melting increases anyway...
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Poster: A snowHead
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bh1, qui? You aren't talking about me are you? 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Whitegold wrote: |
The world has been heating up for the past 15k years. Since the end of the Ice Age. It is going to get warmer.
Those ice fields will eventually melt, probably some time before the 23rd century.
Then they will return during the next Ice Age. |
Agree 100%
| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| If a glacier has melted at a considerably faster rate in the last 20 years than in the previous 20, does that tell us something, or is "Mother Nature" just keeping on going, with no change brought about by human influence? |
The last remains of a glacier will allways appear to melt alot quicker. Its like watching the last water go down drain.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| Whitegold, prove it - you weren't around 15k years ago, nor was there accurate temperature measurement then, all you are basing your theory on is extrapolation of data based on models. Models are not facts. Temperature change in the last 30 years is greater than it has been in the last 300 (notice I have chosen time spans during which thermometric measurements have actually been recorded, not guessed at). If a glacier has melted at a considerably faster rate in the last 20 years than in the previous 20, does that tell us something, or is "Mother Nature" just keeping on going, with no change brought about by human influence? |
Could be that an imperceptible part of climate change, that is going on anyway, is attributable to man? Seems a bit steep to go from saying that the small percentage of CO2 increase attributable to man so far is responsible for the major changes that have occurred.
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