Rod,
No you have not imagined that you read of an increase in ice mass.
If you have time, you may wish to read a note I sent to a reporter in our local paper who was banging on about global warming causing ice to melt. He had clearly not done his homework. I also sent him actual temperature measurements from Antarctica's Halley Bay but the chart won't reproduce here. They have been falling for decades and the current annual mean is minus 21 deg. Celsius.
Letter reads.............
Dear Mr Williams,
Your article on the ?melting ice-caps which could cause catastrophic flooding? puzzled me. It could also needlessly worry people who have not bothered to learn the truth. First of all, tide gauges world-wide show no rising sea level trend.
The recent break-off of the Larsen B ice in Antarctica had been predicted for years and is nothing to do with the global warming myth. This ice shelf, which projected into the sea, pushing further and further from land, eventually broke off due to tidal stresses. There can be no catastrophic rise in sea levels as the ice had already displaced it?s own weight in water and levels will not change. The Peninsula from which Larsen B detached itself juts out into the Southern Ocean and has been warming for some time but this is nothing to do with human activities.
A recent report in Nature magazine by thirteen scientists confirms that 98% of Antarctica has been cooling for the last 35 years. The overall mass of ice has been increasing by 26.8 Gigatons per year. (Joughin & Tulaczyk, vol.295 p.476, 18th January 2002) It is difficult to see how a warming planet can produce more ice. With temperatures at present 21 degrees below freezing, how can an ice cap melt?
Your article mentions the accuracy of satellite measurements so why not mention that NOAA satellites have been measuring the global temperatures for the last 23 years and show no warming trend. Radio sonde weather balloons confirm the figures.
?Global warming? is a myth promoted by tax-hungry politicians playing Canute and of course some government funded scientists make a very good living involving themselves in research to find a solution to a non-existent problem.
To expose the melting ice-cap myth, check temperature records in Halley Bay , Antarctica (below) as published by the British Antarctic Survey. Should you need any more information please let me know; I will be happy to help.
Best regards
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Thanks for the reply. I find the whole climate thing interesting but more from my liking for science, and astronomy in particular. I do have my own theories on this which begin with the premise that science and politics don't mix!
Anyway, this is all way off-topic for a motoring forum.
Rod.
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I think it is relevant to motoring because, on the basis of the biggest scam ever perpetrated on mankind, we are being taxed and harried off the road
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