Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2008 8:13:44 GMT 10
Speaking of animals coming in from the cold, there's this unfortunate critter ... 
Thursday June 5, 07:01 PM
Wandering polar bear shot in Iceland
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Icelandic authorities said they were forced to shoot a polar bear found wandering on the island in order to protect the public after a plan to anaesthetize the animal was abandoned.
The bear, an adult male weighing around 250 kg (500 lbs), was presumed to have swum to shore from drifting ice. The last time a polar bear came ashore in Iceland was in 1988.
....SNIP ...
When bears have come to Iceland they have usually travelled most of the way on icebergs from the east coast of Greenland. The animals are excellent swimmers.
Last month, polar bears were listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act because their sea ice habitat is melting away.
The U.S. Geological Survey says two-thirds of the world's polar bears -- 16,000 -- could be gone by 2050 if predictions about melting Arctic sea ice hold true.
Seems like the icebergs in the northern hemisphere may be increasing? Ice cover in Antarctica is increasing, contrary to what the GW bandwagon tells us ....
ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET: NOT SHRINKING, GROWING
CO2 Science Magazine, 8 November 2006
www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V9/N45/C2.jsp
Wingham, D.J., Shepherd, A., Muir, A. and Marshall, G.J. 2006. Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 364: 1627-1635.
The authors "analyzed 1.2 x 108 European remote sensing satellite altimeter echoes to determine the changes in volume of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2003." This survey, in their words, "covers 85% of the East Antarctic ice sheet and 51% of the West Antarctic ice sheet," which together comprise "72% of the grounded ice sheet.""
..... SNIP ..... the researchers' best estimates of regional differences in this parameter are used, they find that "72% of the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining 27 ± 29 Gt year^-1, a sink of ocean mass sufficient to lower global sea levels by 0.08 mm year^-1." This net extraction of water from the global ocean, according to Wingham et al., occurs because "mass gains from accumulating snow, particularly on the Antarctic Peninsula and within East Antarctica, exceed the ice dynamic mass loss from West Antarctica."
What it means
Contrary to all the horror stories one hears about global warming-induced mass wastage of the Antarctic ice sheet leading to rising sea levels that gobble up coastal lowlands worldwide, the most recent decade of pertinent real-world data suggest that forces leading to just the opposite effect are apparently prevailing, even in the face of what climate alarmists typically describe as the greatest warming of the world in the past two millennia or more.
Copyright 2006, CO2 Science Magazine
Thursday June 5, 07:01 PM
Wandering polar bear shot in Iceland
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Icelandic authorities said they were forced to shoot a polar bear found wandering on the island in order to protect the public after a plan to anaesthetize the animal was abandoned.
The bear, an adult male weighing around 250 kg (500 lbs), was presumed to have swum to shore from drifting ice. The last time a polar bear came ashore in Iceland was in 1988.
....SNIP ...
When bears have come to Iceland they have usually travelled most of the way on icebergs from the east coast of Greenland. The animals are excellent swimmers.
Last month, polar bears were listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act because their sea ice habitat is melting away.
The U.S. Geological Survey says two-thirds of the world's polar bears -- 16,000 -- could be gone by 2050 if predictions about melting Arctic sea ice hold true.
Seems like the icebergs in the northern hemisphere may be increasing? Ice cover in Antarctica is increasing, contrary to what the GW bandwagon tells us ....
ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET: NOT SHRINKING, GROWING
CO2 Science Magazine, 8 November 2006
www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V9/N45/C2.jsp
Wingham, D.J., Shepherd, A., Muir, A. and Marshall, G.J. 2006. Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 364: 1627-1635.
The authors "analyzed 1.2 x 108 European remote sensing satellite altimeter echoes to determine the changes in volume of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2003." This survey, in their words, "covers 85% of the East Antarctic ice sheet and 51% of the West Antarctic ice sheet," which together comprise "72% of the grounded ice sheet.""
..... SNIP ..... the researchers' best estimates of regional differences in this parameter are used, they find that "72% of the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining 27 ± 29 Gt year^-1, a sink of ocean mass sufficient to lower global sea levels by 0.08 mm year^-1." This net extraction of water from the global ocean, according to Wingham et al., occurs because "mass gains from accumulating snow, particularly on the Antarctic Peninsula and within East Antarctica, exceed the ice dynamic mass loss from West Antarctica."
What it means
Contrary to all the horror stories one hears about global warming-induced mass wastage of the Antarctic ice sheet leading to rising sea levels that gobble up coastal lowlands worldwide, the most recent decade of pertinent real-world data suggest that forces leading to just the opposite effect are apparently prevailing, even in the face of what climate alarmists typically describe as the greatest warming of the world in the past two millennia or more.
Copyright 2006, CO2 Science Magazine