1952 Shock News : Greenland Was Melting Before The SUV Was Invented

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Tony Heller

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4 Responses to 1952 Shock News : Greenland Was Melting Before The SUV Was Invented

  1. Grumpy Grampy ;) says:
    August 6, 2011 at 1:50 am

    I am still waiting for the sea level rise!

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  2. Blade says:
    August 6, 2011 at 11:03 am

    “Scientists have calculated that if the entire icecap eventually melted, the seal level throughout the world would rise 17ft., flooding every port, and thousands of square miles of land.”

    Note the extremely sloppy ‘science’ involved. No parallel calculation of water that would remain landbound in freshwater lakes (see the Great Lakes in the USA for example). They assume the island is convex, as opposed to a concave container. If that were true, water and ice would have had a difficult time accumulating there in the first place!

    The question is how much would sea level rise were Greenland to melt completely? It would be a fraction of the total they calculate. The remainder could easily be managed by building damns and generating their wonderful green energy.

    Since it would take thousands of years to melt, they can take their time too.

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  3. gator69 says:
    August 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    I thought ice only started melting after 1979. Before that everything was permafrost.

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  4. gator69 says:
    August 6, 2011 at 3:38 pm

    “Massive Ice Island Located 10 Miles From Newfoundland Coast”

    PII-A is a remnant of a much larger ice island that calved off the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland almost exactly one year before MODIS acquired this image. The ice island broke free from the glacier on August 5, 2010. That ice island was roughly 97 square miles (251 square kilometres).

    As of July 27, 2011, PII-A had a surface area of about 50 square kilometres (19 square miles), according to the Canadian Ice Service. Another remnant of the original ice island, PII-B-a, had a surface area of about 21 square kilometres (8 square miles) and was located in Lancaster Sound.

    http://www.irishweatheronline.com/news/marine/massive-ice-island-located-10-miles-from-newfoundland-coast/29956.html

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