Japan: Global Warming Is NOT Caused By Humans

[jesuitsdidit]

A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has now stopped.
Unsurprisingly the report, which was released last month, has been completely ignored by the Western corporate media.

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/35420
03/04/2009

Top Japanese Scientists: Global Warming Is NOT Caused By Human Activity


Western media completely ignores major report from Japan’s Energy Commission

A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has now stopped.
Unsurprisingly the report, which was released last month, has been completely ignored by the Western corporate media.

The report was undertaken by Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER), the academic society representing scientists from the energy and resource fields.
The JSER acts as a government advisory panel, much like the International Panel on Climate Change did for the UN.

The JSER’s findings provide a stark contrast to the IPCC’s, however, with only one out of five top researchers agreeing with the claim that recent warming has been accelerated by man-made carbon emissions.
The government commissioned report criticizes computer climate modeling and also says that the US ground temperature data set, used to back up the man-made warming claims, is too myopic.

In the last month, no major Western media outlet has covered the report, which prompted British based sci-tech website The Register to commission a translation of the document.

Section one highlights the fact that Global Warming has ceased, noting that since 2001, the increase in global temperatures has halted, despite a continuing increase in CO2 emissions.

The report then states that the recent warming the planet has experienced is primarily a recovery from the so called “Little Ice Age” that occurred from around 1400 through to 1800, and is part of a natural cycle.
The researchers also conclude that global warming and the halting of the temperature rise are related to solar activity, a notion previously dismissed by the IPCC.

“The hypothesis that the majority of global warming can be ascribed to the Greenhouse Effect is mistaken.” the report’s introduction states.

Kanya Kusano, Program Director and Group Leader for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC) reiterates this point:
“[The IPCC's] conclusion that from now on atmospheric temperatures are likely to show a continuous, monotonic increase, should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis,”
Shunichi Akasofu, head of the International Arctic Research Center in Alaska, cites historical data to challenge the claim that very recent temperatures represent an anomaly:

“We should be cautious, IPCC’s theory that atmospheric temperature has risen since 2000 in correspondence with CO2 is nothing but a hypothesis. ”
“Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis has been substituted for truth… The opinion that great disaster will really happen must be broken.” Akasofu concludes.

The conclusions within the report dovetail with those of hundreds of Western scientists, who have been derided and even compared with holocaust deniers for challenging the so called “consensus” on global warming.
The total lack of exposure that this major report has received is another example of how skewed coverage of climate change is toward one set of hypotheses.

This serves the agenda to deliberately whip up mass hysteria on behalf of governments who are all too eager to introduce draconian taxation and control measures that won’t do anything to combat any form of warming, whether you believe it to be natural or man-made.

[jesuitsdidit]

typically CO2 levels rise 800 years after warming starts - naturally

[drhemp]

Thanks; great find, I have forwarded it on.

[anthony65]

Do you reckon Al Gore will lose his Nobel Prize? :rolleyes:

[jesuitsdidit]

An extra billion people will face water shortage, cereal production in developing countries will drop and coastal regions will
face more damage from floods and storms because of delay in combating climate change, says a leading expert.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Earth/Warming_impacts_to_get_worse/articleshow/3835935.cms


Get ready for worse climate change impacts: Expert
14 Dec 2008,

POZNAN (POLAND): An extra billion people will face water shortage, cereal production in developing countries will drop and coastal regions will
face more damage from floods and storms because of delay in combating climate change, says a leading expert.

The world should be prepared to face far worse effects of global warming than it is facing now, Martin Parry, a professor at the Imperial College in London, said in the backdrop of little substantial progress at the Dec 1-12 climate summit here.

Parry is also former co-chair of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group and lead author of its seminal 2007 report.

In the report, the IPCC had said worldwide greenhouse gas emissions had to peak by 2015 and then decrease if global warming was to be kept within two degrees Celsius. Starting with the European Union, governments around the world have talked of this as a desirable target.

Parry has put together from his own research and from studies around the world the effect of delay on this goal in areas such as water supply, food, health, coastal areas and other ecosystems.

Even if the world manages to reach an emission peak at 2015 and then cuts 80 percent of its emissions by 2050 compared to 1990 - a very ambitious target, since it will mean an annual six percent emission reduction - 0.4 to 1.7 billion people will face water shortage due to the climate change already taking place, something that Parry calls "inevitable damage".

But if the world cuts its emissions after 2015 by three percent per year instead of six percent - reaching 50 percent reduction by 2050 instead of 80 percent - one to two billion people will face water shortage, Parry has calculated.

If the year of greenhouse gas emissions peak is pushed back to 2035, and then cut at three percent per year, the number of people facing water shortages will go up to 1.1-3.2 billion.

Crop productivity is already being affected by climate change, largely through more frequent and more severe droughts and also through more floods and storms.

Parry said that with a 2035 emissions peak year and three percent per year cut after that, "all cereal production will decrease" and the worst would be faced in Africa.

Climate change is already leading to increased healthcare costs in developing countries like India, as more people fall ill from water-borne diseases and mosquitoes carrying malaria and dengue germs spread their range in a warmer world.

[atticus_finch]

Do you reckon Al Gore will lose his Nobel Prize? :rolleyes:

..in 800 years time maybe

[jesuitsdidit]

http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/497174


Climate scientist: 'We told you so'

March 04, 2009
Greg Mercer
RECORD STAFF

WATERLOO

If the Arctic is the canary in climate change's mine shaft, it's chirping loudly.

It's issuing a warning, says American scientist Mark Serreze, that the expected melting of Arctic sea ice is about 30 years ahead of schedule.

"We hate to say we told you so, but we told you so," said Serreze, who's speaking on the subject today at 7 p.m. at the University of Waterloo's Federation Hall. His research at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., indicates everything scientists predicted about climate change -- that the biggest warming would be in the arctic -- is coming true.

The problem is that it's happening faster than expected. And that's bad news, considering Arctic sea ice acts as an insulator for the earth, slowing global warming.

"It's ahead of schedule . . . it's already here," Serreze said. "We're losing ice a lot faster than we have any right to be losing it, according to our climate models."

Sea ice levels in the Arctic reached a record low in September 2007. There's now about a third less ice there since satellite measurements began 30 years ago.

Serreze, who said greenhouse gases are the primary culprit, thinks the Arctic could lose all of its ice by 2030. "Climate change is not something that is 50 years out ahead of us, that someone else will have to worry about," he said. "It's real, and it's here, and we have to deal with it."

Those interested in Serreze's talk can register online at www.ic3.uwaterloo.ca/seminars/rsvp.html. His lecture, Cranking up the Arctic Heat, is from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. An expert panel will follow.

gmercer@therecord.com

[the worm that turned]

A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has now stopped.
Unsurprisingly the report, which was released last month, has been completely ignored by the Western corporate media.

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/35420
03/04/2009

Top Japanese Scientists: Global Warming Is NOT Caused By Human Activity


Western media completely ignores major report from Japan’s Energy Commission

A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has now stopped.
Unsurprisingly the report, which was released last month, has been completely ignored by the Western corporate media.

The report was undertaken by Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER), the academic society representing scientists from the energy and resource fields.
The JSER acts as a government advisory panel, much like the International Panel on Climate Change did for the UN.

The JSER’s findings provide a stark contrast to the IPCC’s, however, with only one out of five top researchers agreeing with the claim that recent warming has been accelerated by man-made carbon emissions.
The government commissioned report criticizes computer climate modeling and also says that the US ground temperature data set, used to back up the man-made warming claims, is too myopic.

In the last month, no major Western media outlet has covered the report, which prompted British based sci-tech website The Register to commission a translation of the document.

Section one highlights the fact that Global Warming has ceased, noting that since 2001, the increase in global temperatures has halted, despite a continuing increase in CO2 emissions.

The report then states that the recent warming the planet has experienced is primarily a recovery from the so called “Little Ice Age” that occurred from around 1400 through to 1800, and is part of a natural cycle.
The researchers also conclude that global warming and the halting of the temperature rise are related to solar activity, a notion previously dismissed by the IPCC.

“The hypothesis that the majority of global warming can be ascribed to the Greenhouse Effect is mistaken.” the report’s introduction states.

Kanya Kusano, Program Director and Group Leader for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC) reiterates this point:
“[The IPCC's] conclusion that from now on atmospheric temperatures are likely to show a continuous, monotonic increase, should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis,”
Shunichi Akasofu, head of the International Arctic Research Center in Alaska, cites historical data to challenge the claim that very recent temperatures represent an anomaly:

“We should be cautious, IPCC’s theory that atmospheric temperature has risen since 2000 in correspondence with CO2 is nothing but a hypothesis. ”
“Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis has been substituted for truth… The opinion that great disaster will really happen must be broken.” Akasofu concludes.

The conclusions within the report dovetail with those of hundreds of Western scientists, who have been derided and even compared with holocaust deniers for challenging the so called “consensus” on global warming.
The total lack of exposure that this major report has received is another example of how skewed coverage of climate change is toward one set of hypotheses.

This serves the agenda to deliberately whip up mass hysteria on behalf of governments who are all too eager to introduce draconian taxation and control measures that won’t do anything to combat any form of warming, whether you believe it to be natural or man-made.

Write (NOT EMAIL) to your MP and demand answers about this. If we all do it they have to listen.

[jesuitsdidit]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/63177.html

Antarctica is heating up fast, researcher, other scientists warn

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By Scott Canon | Kansas City Star
Mon, Mar. 02, 2009

No longer is David Braaten constantly cocooned in his red super parka. He left the insta-freeze winds of the Antarctic interior in January.

But as cold as the trip was for the University of Kansas scientist, he recognizes what one discovery after the next has demonstrated this year: It’s getting remarkably warm down there, and it’s heating up incredibly fast.

“We’re trying to find out what’s happening to the ice,” said Braaten, the deputy director of the KU-based Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets.

Even as the changing climate brings more moisture, and ice, to Antarctica’s center, on its edges the frozen continent is becoming less so. Melting skyscrapers of ice crash into the ocean at ever-faster rates.

That’s raising sea levels, disrupting ocean food chains and reducing the region’s ability to moderate the planet’s climate.

Climate scientists once were befuddled about why Antarctica seemed to be cooling while the rest of the world got toastier. It turns out the bottom of the world has been warming after all.

“More is happening than we thought, and it’s happening faster,” said Douglas Martinson of Columbia University, who studies the impact of polar oceans on global climate.

Average winter temperatures on the Antarctica peninsula — changing more than the rest of the continent — have risen 11 degrees since 1950. That’s five times the global warmup and disastrous to the ice shelves that hang over water and act as corks to bottle up glaciers on land.

In 1950, the Wilkins Ice Shelf was bonded to Antarctica with a 62-mile-wide block of ice. Now it clings by an hourglass-shaped link that narrows to just a third of a mile. The Jamaica-size shelf could tumble into the ocean any time.

Last week, the World Meteorological Organization said northern Arctic sea ice shrunk to its lowest in the summers of 2007 and 2008 since satellites began watching 30 years ago.

The Antarctic Ocean, meanwhile, is warming at rates faster than the rest of Earth.

“We are basically looking now at a future climate that’s beyond anything we’ve considered seriously,” Chris Field of Stanford University told a meeting in Chicago.

In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won a Nobel Prize for its scientific consensus on the reality of global warming from human activity. Fresh research suggests the vaunted report underestimated the pace of the problem.

The changes seen now are much faster and parallel the increase in greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in January that although 2008 was one of the world’s coolest years this decade, it still was the ninth warmest on record. Since 1880, 10 of the warmest years are since 1997.

A recent column by conservative George Will, in which he argued that concerns about global warming are overwrought and unfounded, was condemned by mainstream climate scientists both for its conclusion and its specifics.

For instance, Will wrote that “global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.” But the very authority he cited, the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, said the amount of sea ice in the world decreased about 8 percent over the last three decades, or the equivalent of “Texas, California and Oklahoma combined.”

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers a third of the continent and great expanses of the Weddell and Ross seas.

Fortunately, no one foresees its collapse for centuries, as it could be more catastrophic than previously understood. A recent paper in the journal Science predicted it would shift the planet’s axis by a third of a mile and send rising waters sloshing northward.

“It’s the difference between spinning a ball with a lump of something on the side, or taking that material and distributing it more evenly around the surface,” said Peter Clark, a geosciences professor at Oregon State University.

Scientists had believed such an ice dump would universally raise ocean levels 16.5 feet worldwide, but new computer models suggest the shores of North America could face five more feet of water.

Braaten and his colleagues try to determine how much ice still exists. They experiment with high-tech flights to decipher how deep the snow and ice is.

“When you’re there, you just see that it looks flat,” Braaten said. “Flatter than Nebraska.”

But beneath — the glaciers average 1.5 miles thick in Eastern Antarctica — sit undulating mountain ranges for Braaten and his colleagues to chart.

Understanding that terrain below and the glaciers piled on top will offer a better idea of how much ice may be accumulating in Antarctica’s middle — a consequence of climate change bringing more moisture to the region — and how much is calving away at the edges.

The rapid retreat of sea ice has profound consequences for penguins and other wildlife.

“Penguins and seals and whales need that sea ice,” said Hugh Ducklow, who returned from Antarctica to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. “All these ice-loving species are contracting their ranges to the south,” chasing after the ice.

The average time per year the ocean around the peninsula is covered by sea ice has fallen by 90 days since 1978. Whaling records suggest the ice began to withdraw as early as the 1930s.

That has meant tiny invertebrates such as krill — which hide from predators and feed on plant matter that grows in the ice — decline when the ice declines. So do the fish that feed on them, and so on.

“The Arctic was the canary in the coal mine, and we didn’t pay much attention when it got sick,” Martinson said. “Now the penguins are the canaries down there, and they’re not looking too good.”

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9qtIShoetXpa8eaJFaU5LCp2UEA


India offers hand to US on climate change

19 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Confident about a warming relationship with the United States, India hopes to work closely with Washington in the fight against climate change, its ambassador said Wednesday.

Ambassador Ronen Sen, who is leaving his post after four and a half years in Washington, said New Delhi was looking for new areas of cooperation after a breakthrough nuclear energy deal with former US president George W. Bush.

'We have a vested interest in working as partners in tackling this problem of climate change," Sen told a luncheon with business leaders.

"I would like to say that you will find us cooperative in this joint endeavor," he said.

He said India and the United States shared concerns in climate policy, including reducing the environmental damage caused by rising temperatures and finding ways to reduce dependence on energy imports.

"This is one area where I think our interests converge more than any two countries that I can think of," Sen said.

US President Barack Obama has vowed to take a leadership role in drafting a new treaty on global warming, marking a drastic change in policy.

Bush was a sworn opponent of the Kyoto Protocol, arguing that it was unfair by forcing only rich nations to cut emissions blamed for global warming while making no demands of growing developing countries such as India and China.

While Sen did not go into detail on ways to cooperate, he stood by New Delhi's position that poorer nations should have different obligations than rich countries bearing greater historic responsibility for global warming.

"We can't tell an electorate when you are going into elections that when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this," he said.

A December conference in Copenhagen is scheduled to approve a new treaty on fighting global warming for the period after 2012, when Kyoto's obligations expire.

[jiffy]

http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/497174


Climate scientist: 'We told you so'

March 04, 2009
Greg Mercer
RECORD STAFF

WATERLOO

If the Arctic is the canary in climate change's mine shaft, it's chirping loudly.

It's issuing a warning, says American scientist Mark Serreze, that the expected melting of Arctic sea ice is about 30 years ahead of schedule.

"We hate to say we told you so, but we told you so," said Serreze, who's speaking on the subject today at 7 p.m. at the University of Waterloo's Federation Hall. His research at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., indicates everything scientists predicted about climate change -- that the biggest warming would be in the arctic -- is coming true.

The problem is that it's happening faster than expected. And that's bad news, considering Arctic sea ice acts as an insulator for the earth, slowing global warming.

"It's ahead of schedule . . . it's already here," Serreze said. "We're losing ice a lot faster than we have any right to be losing it, according to our climate models."

Sea ice levels in the Arctic reached a record low in September 2007. There's now about a third less ice there since satellite measurements began 30 years ago.

Serreze, who said greenhouse gases are the primary culprit, thinks the Arctic could lose all of its ice by 2030. "Climate change is not something that is 50 years out ahead of us, that someone else will have to worry about," he said. "It's real, and it's here, and we have to deal with it."

Those interested in Serreze's talk can register online at www.ic3.uwaterloo.ca/seminars/rsvp.html. His lecture, Cranking up the Arctic Heat, is from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. An expert panel will follow.

gmercer@therecord.com

How interesting he uses data to fit his hypothesis, why use 2007 figures?......could it possibly be be 2009 (latest) figures don't tally with his point?........given the global temp was at a 30-50 year low for 2008.

[dreamweaver]

Do you reckon Al Gore will lose his Nobel Prize? :rolleyes:

Henry Kissinger still has his Nobel Peace Prize. Great sense of irony, these guys...

[endlessvista]

How interesting he uses data to fit his hypothesis, why use 2007 figures?......could it possibly be be 2009 (latest) figures don't tally with his point?........given the global temp was at a 30-50 year low for 2008.

Got it in one. I have seen some of the data for the 2008 global temps and it is a huge drop. Sorry I can't find it now, but basically destroys the whold notion of a warming trend.

[jiffy]

Got it in one. I have seen some of the data for the 2008 global temps and it is a huge drop. Sorry I can't find it now, but basically destroys the whold notion of a warming trend.

Just one of many

http://www.disclose.tv/frameset.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytech.com%2F Sea%2BIce%2BEnds%2BYear%2Bat%2BSame%2BLevel%2Bas%2 B1979%2Farticle13834.htm

[dreamweaver]

Got it in one. I have seen some of the data for the 2008 global temps and it is a huge drop. Sorry I can't find it now, but basically destroys the whold notion of a warming trend.

The drop in 2008 was more than the whole of the 0.6C supposedly caused by a century of "man-made global warming"!

As it happens, I think human-caused emissions of CO2 probably do have a (very small) effect on overall temperatures - but there are clearly more important factors such as solar flares activity. This whole notion that global temperatures are all down to how much driving and recycling you do is such an obvious scam that I'm amazed so many still haven't seen through it.

[endlessvista]

from the Discovery Channel no less!

Global Warming: On Hold?
Michael Reilly, Discovery News

March 2, 2009 -- For those who have endured this winter's frigid temperatures
and today's heavy snowstorm in the Northeast, the concept of global warming may
seem, well, almost wishful.

But climate is known to be variable -- a cold winter, or a few strung together
doesn't mean the planet is cooling. Still, according to a new study in
Geophysical Research Letters, global warming may have hit a speed bump and could
go into hiding for decades.

Earth's climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of
warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse
gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary
thermostat.

"This is nothing like anything we've seen since 1950," Kyle Swanson of the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee said. "Cooling events since then had firm
causes, like eruptions or large-magnitude La Ninas. This current cooling doesn't
have one."

Instead, Swanson and colleague Anastasios Tsonis think a series of climate
processes have aligned, conspiring to chill the climate. In 1997 and 1998, the
tropical Pacific Ocean warmed rapidly in what Swanson called a "super El Nino
event." It sent a shock wave through the oceans and atmosphere, jarring their
circulation patterns into unison.

How does this square with temperature records from 2005-2007, by some
measurements among the warmest years on record? When added up with the other
four years since 2001, Swanson said the overall trend is flat, even though
temperatures should have gone up by 0.2 degrees Centigrade (0.36 degrees
Fahrenheit) during that time.

The discrepancy gets to the heart of one of the toughest problems in climate
science -- identifying the difference between natural variability (like the
occasional March snowstorm) from human-induced change.

But just what's causing the cooling is a mystery. Sinking water currents in the
north Atlantic Ocean could be sucking heat down into the depths. Or an
overabundance of tropical clouds may be reflecting more of the sun's energy than
usual back out into space.

"It is possible that a fraction of the most recent rapid warming since the 1970s
was due to a free variation in climate," Isaac Held of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration in Princeton, New Jersey wrote in an email to
Discovery News. "Suggesting that the warming might possibly slow down or even
stagnate for a few years before rapid warming commences again."

Swanson thinks the trend could continue for up to 30 years. But he warned that
it's just a hiccup, and that humans' penchant for spewing greenhouse gases will
certainly come back to haunt us.

"When the climate kicks back out of this state, we'll have explosive warming,"
Swanson said. "Thirty years of greenhouse gas radiative forcing will still be
there and then bang, the warming will return and be very aggressive."

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/02/global-warming-pause.html

[endlessvista]

As it happens, I think human-caused emissions of CO2 probably do have a (very small) effect on overall temperatures - but there are clearly more important factors such as solar flares activity. This whole notion that global temperatures are all down to how much driving and recycling you do is such an obvious scam that I'm amazed so many still haven't seen through it.


I actually agree with this 100%.

The great tragedy of the Al Gore Religion is that it took people's minds and media attention off the really serious environmental issues. Which I beleive is why he was sent out on this crusade in the first place.

[jesuitsdidit]

Just one of many

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here it is

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Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
Michael Asher (Blog) - January 1, 2009

Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago.

Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close.

Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards.

The data is being reported by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions.

Each year, millions of square kilometers of sea ice melt and refreeze. However, the mean ice anomaly -- defined as the seasonally-adjusted difference between the current value and the average from 1979-2000, varies much more slowly. That anomaly now stands at just under zero, a value identical to one recorded at the end of 1979, the year satellite record-keeping began.

Sea ice is floating and, unlike the massive ice sheets anchored to bedrock in Greenland and Antarctica, doesn't affect ocean levels. However, due to its transient nature, sea ice responds much faster to changes in temperature or precipitation and is therefore a useful barometer of changing conditions.

Earlier this year, predictions were rife that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008. Instead, the Arctic ice saw a substantial recovery. Bill Chapman, a researcher with the UIUC's Arctic Center, tells DailyTech this was due in part to colder temperatures in the region. Chapman says wind patterns have also been weaker this year. Strong winds can slow ice formation as well as forcing ice into warmer waters where it will melt.

Why were predictions so wrong? Researchers had expected the newer sea ice, which is thinner, to be less resilient and melt easier. Instead, the thinner ice had less snow cover to insulate it from the bitterly cold air, and therefore grew much faster than expected, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

In May, concerns over disappearing sea ice led the U.S. to officially list the polar bear a threatened species, over objections from experts who claimed the animal's numbers were increasing.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gCiXb1C_JnTZ19kwVF0k4Ld9b-FAD96J6H700


Ice in east Antarctica a bigger threat long term

By CHARLES J. HANLEY – Feb 26, 2009

TROLL RESEARCH STATION, Antarctica (AP) — Antarctica's western ice sheet is pushing ever faster into the sea, but scientists know an even greater long-term threat lies here in the vast, little-explored whiteness of east Antarctica.

An "absolutely titanic" store of ice that sits atop the east Antarctic plateau should be more closely monitored by glaciologists, the world's thinly spread corps of ice specialists, says Ted Scambos, a leading U.S. expert whose team last weekend finished a two-month scientific expedition across the forbidding plateau.

Scambos and Tom Neumann, leader of that joint U.S.-Norwegian "traverse" from the South Pole to this Norwegian outpost, commented Wednesday after the release in Geneva of a report summarizing initial findings from the 2007-2009 International Polar Year (IPY), a program of intensified research in the polar regions.

That report said west Antarctica has been warming, ice shelves floating on the sea fringing the west coast are weakening, and the glaciers they hold back are pouring ice faster into the sea.

The report doesn't forecast immediate Antarctic disasters because of global warming. Scientists point out, however, that if the western ice sheet ever collapsed completely, it would add some 7 meters to sea levels worldwide.

East Antarctica's ice appears more stable than the west's — "I wouldn't say it's stable, but more stable," said Neumann — but it has the theoretical potential to add some 200 feet (60 meters) to sea levels in centuries to come, scientists say. Even a small, more immediate shift here could raise oceans significantly.

Concerned Norwegian researchers plan to investigate the state of the Fimbul Ice Shelf, a gigantic table of thick ice reaching 120 miles into the sea at the coast 100 miles north of this research station, which sits in a stony mountain valley hemmed in by glaciers rumbling in slow motion toward the far-off southern Atlantic.

Kim Holmen, research director for the Norwegian Polar Institute, which operates Troll, took note of the melting ice shelves of the west.

"This is something we think is happening to the ice shelves in Dronning Maud Land," he said, referring to this Norwegian-claimed sector of east Antarctica. "The water coming in under the shelves is 1-degree (Celsius) warmer" — almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit.

Scambos, lead scientist at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, pointed out that a recently published research paper in the journal Nature indicated that east Antarctica, contrary to earlier scientific belief, has been warming in recent decades.

"Our preliminary results support that," he said of the traverse expedition's research. "The temperature measurements we were able to make looks like there was a very slight warming."

The 12-member U.S.-Norwegian team drilled deep cores into the eastern ice sheet to assess recent and historical climate trends, checked ice thickness with radar, and made other measurements. They drove the 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) in a caravan of snow tractors pulling research, kitchen and sleeping modules on giant skis.

The interior of east Antarctica is almost entirely unexplored. "The area we traveled through had not been visited by a scientific traverse since the 1960s," said NASA glaciologist Neumann.

"This part of Antarctica is approximately the same size as Greenland and we don't know very much about it," he said. "But I hope our data on the ground will allow us to make a much better assessment of how this area is changing."

That will take months of follow-up analysis. Meantime, Scambos said, Wednesday's IPY report "gives us an idea of what sort of trouble we are getting ourselves into if we don't begin to turn around the impact of greenhouse gases on climate."

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press.

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http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/02/24/Study_finds_new_dangers_of_global_warming/UPI-53451235505275/


Study finds new dangers of global warming
Published: Feb. 24, 2009

STANFORD, Calif., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they have discovered even slight increases in global temperatures could lead to greater calamities than previously thought.

The study finds that even a lower level of increase in global warming
due to greenhouse gas emissions could cause significant problems in five key areas of global concern.

The researchers said the five areas are:

--Risk to unique and threatened systems, such as the potential for increased damage to, or irreversible loss of, unique and threatened systems such as coral reefs, tropical glaciers and endangered species.

--Risk of extreme weather events, including increases in the frequency, intensity or consequences of heat waves, floods, droughts, wildfires or tropical cyclones.

--Distribution of impacts, with some regions, countries and populations facing greater harm from climate change, while other areas would be much less harmed -- and some may benefit.

--Aggregate damages, which covers comprehensive measures of impacts from climate change, with global warming likely adversely impacting hundreds of millions of people.

--Risks of large-scale discontinuities, with the likelihood that certain phenomena would occur, any of which might be accompanied by very large impacts, such as the melting of major ice sheets.

The research that included scientists from Stanford, Princeton and Wesleyan Universities and Stratus Consulting in Boulder Colo., is detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

© 2009 United Press International, Inc.

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http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/497174


Climate scientist: 'We told you so'

March 04, 2009
Greg Mercer
RECORD STAFF

WATERLOO

If the Arctic is the canary in climate change's mine shaft, it's chirping loudly.

It's issuing a warning, says American scientist Mark Serreze, that the expected melting of Arctic sea ice is about 30 years ahead of schedule.
"We hate to say we told you so, but we told you so," said Serreze, who's speaking on the subject today at 7 p.m. at the University of Waterloo's Federation Hall. His research at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., indicates everything scientists predicted about climate change -- that the biggest warming would be in the arctic -- is coming true.

The problem is that it's happening faster than expected. And that's bad news, considering Arctic sea ice acts as an insulator for the earth, slowing global warming.

"It's ahead of schedule . . . it's already here," Serreze said. "We're losing ice a lot faster than we have any right to be losing it, according to our climate models."

Sea ice levels in the Arctic reached a record low in September 2007. There's now about a third less ice there since satellite measurements began 30 years ago.

Serreze, who said greenhouse gases are the primary culprit, thinks the Arctic could lose all of its ice by 2030. "Climate change is not something that is 50 years out ahead of us, that someone else will have to worry about," he said. "It's real, and it's here, and we have to deal with it."

Those interested in Serreze's talk can register online at www.ic3.uwaterloo.ca/seminars/rsvp.html. His lecture, Cranking up the Arctic Heat, is from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. An expert panel will follow.

gmercer@therecord.com


think this has anything to do with exploding 9 nukes in 18 hours in the arctic?

source
http://educate-yourself.org/zsl/arcticnukes18nov08.shtml

[anthony65]

Henry Kissinger still has his Nobel Peace Prize. Great sense of irony, these guys...

Yes, I think I've sussed out the logic of the Nobel prizes... :cool:

You do the opposite of the official title while pretending to do what it says.

Whoever pulls off this con trick most effectively wins the prize...

Simple!

[largejack]

A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has now stopped.
Unsurprisingly the report, which was released last month, has been completely ignored by the Western corporate media.

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/35420
03/04/2009

Top Japanese Scientists: Global Warming Is NOT Caused By Human Activity


Western media completely ignores major report from Japan’s Energy Commission

A major scientific report by leading Japanese academics concludes that global warming is not man-made and that the overall warming trend from the mid-part of the 20th Century onwards has now stopped.
Unsurprisingly the report, which was released last month, has been completely ignored by the Western corporate media.

The report was undertaken by Japan Society of Energy and Resources (JSER), the academic society representing scientists from the energy and resource fields.
The JSER acts as a government advisory panel, much like the International Panel on Climate Change did for the UN.

The JSER’s findings provide a stark contrast to the IPCC’s, however, with only one out of five top researchers agreeing with the claim that recent warming has been accelerated by man-made carbon emissions.
The government commissioned report criticizes computer climate modeling and also says that the US ground temperature data set, used to back up the man-made warming claims, is too myopic.

In the last month, no major Western media outlet has covered the report, which prompted British based sci-tech website The Register to commission a translation of the document.

Section one highlights the fact that Global Warming has ceased, noting that since 2001, the increase in global temperatures has halted, despite a continuing increase in CO2 emissions.

The report then states that the recent warming the planet has experienced is primarily a recovery from the so called “Little Ice Age” that occurred from around 1400 through to 1800, and is part of a natural cycle.
The researchers also conclude that global warming and the halting of the temperature rise are related to solar activity, a notion previously dismissed by the IPCC.

“The hypothesis that the majority of global warming can be ascribed to the Greenhouse Effect is mistaken.” the report’s introduction states.

Kanya Kusano, Program Director and Group Leader for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology (JAMSTEC) reiterates this point:
“[The IPCC's] conclusion that from now on atmospheric temperatures are likely to show a continuous, monotonic increase, should be perceived as an unprovable hypothesis,”
Shunichi Akasofu, head of the International Arctic Research Center in Alaska, cites historical data to challenge the claim that very recent temperatures represent an anomaly:

“We should be cautious, IPCC’s theory that atmospheric temperature has risen since 2000 in correspondence with CO2 is nothing but a hypothesis. ”
“Before anyone noticed, this hypothesis has been substituted for truth… The opinion that great disaster will really happen must be broken.” Akasofu concludes.

The conclusions within the report dovetail with those of hundreds of Western scientists, who have been derided and even compared with holocaust deniers for challenging the so called “consensus” on global warming.
The total lack of exposure that this major report has received is another example of how skewed coverage of climate change is toward one set of hypotheses.

This serves the agenda to deliberately whip up mass hysteria on behalf of governments who are all too eager to introduce draconian taxation and control measures that won’t do anything to combat any form of warming, whether you believe it to be natural or man-made.

Excellent article, I've sent it to these ignorant people:

http://www.planestupid.com/