Further proof: global warming is a hoax

[hoosier]

Baby, It's Cold Outside
"An attempt by two men from northern Minnesota to cross the Arctic Ocean to call attention to global warming ended this morning because of poor weather conditions," reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Lonnie Dupre, 43, and Eric Larsen, 33, were forced to abandon their planned 100-day, 1,200-mile trek after encountering unexpectedly heavy snow storms, strong winds and unusual ice conditions, according to Jane Kochersperger, a media officer with the environmental group Greenpeace, which co-sponsored the trip.

Al Gore, call your office!

- Opinion Journal

[RACooper]

One isolated case does not an arguement make...

If you doubt the veracity of global warming I'd suggest taking a look at the far north... oh wait someone already has:
125 Large Northern Lakes Disappear
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/125lar...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Fri Jun 3, 3:25 PM ET

A new study finds 125 large lakes in the Arctic have vanished as temperatures rose over the past two decades. Many other lakes have shrunk.

The lakes once sat atop permanently frozen soil called permafrost. Other studies have shown permafrost is melting around the world, causing low-lying ground to slump and rock to fall from mountains.

"We think that climate warming is thawing the permafrost," said lead researcher Laurence Smith of the University of California, Los Angeles. "It's like pulling the plug out of a bathtub. There's nothing to prevent lake water from percolating through the soil to aquifers below."

Changes seem to come abruptly.

"From what we can tell from space, a lake is either just fine or it's gone," Smith said.

The sudden draining could alter entire continental ecosystems, affecting birds and other wildlife that depend on the waterways, Smith and his colleagues say. Migratory birds count on the lakes during summer to feed their young.

The research is reported today in the journal Science.

Thousands of ponds, lakes and wetlands dot the north during summer.

"The loss of these lakes would be an ecological disaster," Smith said.

The researchers tracked changes across a broad swath of Siberia by comparing satellite imagery from 1972 to views from the late 1990s.

Past research suggested that global warming would increase the amount of summer ice melt, and so there would be more lakes. Indeed, in the most northern parts of the study area, where permafrost remains, that's true, the new survey found. But overall, the surface area of lakes in the entire study area declined by 6 percent.

"We were totally surprised by our findings," Smith said. "We were expecting the lake area to have grown with climate change."

As temperatures in the region continue to rise, as many experts predict, Smith expects lakes farther north to vanish, too.

The study was funded by the
National Science Foundation

[DeltAlum]

If it's OK, I'll take the word of more and more scientists who are agreeing that global warming is a fact -- especially those who were highly sceptical before.

[honeychile]

I thought that the concept of global warming also involved the mixing of seasons, such as cold weather in the summer and warm in the winter? I would freely admit that I'm wrong, though, as science was a yawner for me.

[AGDee]

Those of us who deal with frigid winters realize that we rarely get big snow storms when it's really really cold (below 20 F or so). The really big snow storms happen here when it's close to freezing. Ice also occurs near freezing. When it's super cold, it's a dry powdery snow. Therefore, this could make sense that the storms are worse and more icy now that it's slightly warmer.

Dee

[Rudey]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/po...rtner=homepage

-Rudey

[HelloKitty22]

there goes the Bush administration again... looking out for my health and welfare