New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears

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Link 33. I crack up now... if there IS a natural cycle actually cooling us, then we must be in it already. So why are Greenland's glaciers shrinking if tis getting cooler?

The antarctic is gaining ice BTW. I don't know if we are cooling or not but I would assume that if the trend is the other way the glaciers in Greenland would lag that change. It will be interesting to see what they are doing 20 years from now.

I am at work now and we look pretty busy. Please keep commenting and when I get the chance I will come back.

Greenland is north of the Arctic Circle. Antarctica is losing ice. And so is the Artic Ice Shelf....

Anyway... work is work...

There seems to be some disagreement on that. And I meant Antartica ice.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/7/192721/175

Got ya... this is from the source:

This is not actually a big surprise.

In fact, it is completely in line with model expectations that CO2-dominated forcing will have a disproportionately large effect in the north. The reasons lie in the much larger amount of land in the northern hemisphere and the fact that the ocean's thermal inertia and ability to mix delay any temperature signal from the ongoing absorption of heat. The local geography also plays a dominating role. The circumpolar current acts as a buffer preventing warm water from the tropics from transporting heat to the South Pole, a buffer that does not exist in the north. You can read some more details about that here.

Does it "balance out" in the end? Not really. Sea ice in the Arctic is reaching dramatic record lows. There are other components of the cryosphere that we can look at as well, permafrost, the Greenland ice sheet, global glacier mass, and these all carry the Global Warming signal.

One must look at the balance of evidence, not just those bits one likes. And this balance is clearly in agreement with all other indicators that warming is real and rapid.

Watch it now, Gary... this is actually evidence that supports GW!

Here's the rest of the site...

To be clear about something, I have never said our planet isn't getting warmer. Clearly it is. But what I do take issue with is the idea that it's caused by us. Like I said in my last post I feel that we are experiencing a natural climate fluxuation. That change may go on for the next 100 years or it may have already stopped. The latest data indicates that the rise in tempuratures have stopped.

No Gary, the data suggests those conclusions based on the flawed mathematical assumptions used to define the model to begin with... Glaciers continue to shrink and desertification continues its course. Natural or not, our footprint IS a significant aspect up til now.

Speaking of flawed I'm gonna have to cut it short here for the moment before I suffer a flawed evening. 3 more hours with my lady and then its off to a 16 hour shift with HPLC run after run.