Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Meteorology / July 2009

# Ice Sheet Behavior Much More Volatile And Dynamic
# Than Previously Thought, Tahiti Corals Show
#
# ScienceDaily (Apr. 30, 2009) —
# Fossilised corals from tropical Tahiti show that the
# behaviour of ice sheets is much more volatile and
# dynamic than previously thought, a team led by
# Oxford University scientists has found.
#
# Analysis of the corals suggests that ice sheets can
# change rapidly over just hundreds of years – events
# associated with sea level rises of several metres
# over the same period. It also shows that a natural
# warming mechanism thought to be responsible for
# ending ice ages does not fit the timing of the end of
# the penultimate ice age, around 137,000 years ago.
#
# A report of the research appears online in the journal
# Science on April 23.
#
# http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423205104.htm
#

Another nail in the Human-caused global warming claim...

    At first I thought "Just wait 'til they melt. Then there will
be no regulation to the climate and we'll have runaway global
warming".
    Now I'm thinking "Maybe the climate will regulate anyway, but
weather shifts will be ridiculously fast".
    Just take a look at what's happening in Greenland. While the
polar ice cap has lost some mass, the one in Greenland has grown.
    It might get pretty crazy.