May 20, 2005

THAT S.O.B. GEORGE BUSH FROZE ANARCTICA:

As Climate Shifts, Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Growing: Increased snowfall on the central icecap partly offsets effects of melting glaciers, researchers say. (Robert Lee Hotz, May 20, 2005, LA Times)

As glaciers from Greenland to Kilimanjaro recede at record rates, the central icecap of Antarctica has been steadily growing for 11 years, partially offsetting the rise in seas from the melt waters of global warming, researchers said Thursday.

The vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a 2-mile-thick wasteland larger than Australia, drier than the Sahara and as cold as a Martian spring — increased in mass every year from 1992 to 2003 because of additional annual snowfall, an analysis of satellite radar measurements showed.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 20, 2005 2:41 PM
Comments

"Ha HA! You said there was no such thing as global warming. So how do you explain this, huh? It's apocalypse now, baby! First Bush destroys the Kyoto Treaty, and then comes global warming, and now the ice in Antarctica is . . . getting . . . thicker?

"Never mind."

Posted by: Mike Morley at May 20, 2005 3:02 PM

As seen in the recent movie The Day After Tomorrow, global warming can actually trigger an ice age, by reducing the salinity of the oceans, and slowing the circulation of warm currents.

Just ignore all of the silliness in the movie that happens after the currents grow colder.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at May 20, 2005 3:10 PM

So, temperatures going up and temperatures going down both prove global warming? Stasis, the natural order of things.

Posted by: David Cohen at May 20, 2005 3:43 PM

That seals it. A movie says that Global warming causes ice ages. It must be.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 20, 2005 5:25 PM

Oceans rising at a rate of 3 mm a year! I'm putting in a boat dock and a coal burning boiler.

Posted by: Genecis at May 20, 2005 5:35 PM

But, wasn't it just a couple of years ago that the Ross Ice Shelf was breaking apart into massive icebergs that would threaten shipping lanes and raise the sea levels as they drifted north and melted, thereby proving the apocolyptic threat of Global Warming?

Posted by: John at May 20, 2005 7:29 PM

Robert Schwartz:

That was the one science bit of the movie that they got right.
Not only "must it be", it in fact is.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at May 20, 2005 8:09 PM

John --

It is true that in our enthusiasm for the new Global Warming theology, we occasional become a bit, shall we say, apocalyptic.

Don't let a few silly details blind you to the purity of the vision.

Posted by: curt at May 20, 2005 8:38 PM

Have any of you noticed how many people will now comment (with furrowed brows and solemn voices) how global warming is behind any unseasonably hot or cold or wet or dry weather? Like the popularizations of evolution, the popularizations of global warming are a hoot.

Posted by: Peter B at May 22, 2005 7:54 AM

Stasis: It's the natural order.

Posted by: David Cohen at May 22, 2005 3:22 PM

"That was the one science bit of the movie that they got right."

Lay out 2 hours of nonsense and you will ante on the 15 seconds that confirms your prejudices.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 22, 2005 9:36 PM
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