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Mike's Review of Current Research
Here is a list of articles and postings that enhance our understanding of
earth systems and dramatic changes taking place moment by moment.
I've included a comment to place each article in perspective, since these
cover a range of reports from the scientific community as well as
popular media. Some are not that solid on science, others focus on a
specific topic without placing it in context or relating it to other
discoveries and events. Yet overall, this information reveals a
planet in transition and how its sentient inhabitants are seeing it.
Please check back this page will be expanded continuously. A link is provided so
you can go to the full article.
Mike
Article Name: Increasing Amounts Of Ice Mass Have Been Lost From West Antarctica
From: Science Daily
Mike's Comments: Here’s the most important sentence in an article full of disturbing information: “Changes in glacier dynamics are significant and may in fact dominate the ice sheet mass budget.” This refers to the movement of ice, not its actual melting or freezing, but instead its movement from the land to the sea. This is precisely the component missing from the IPCC models, and the reason their predictions are not to be trusted. In this article people who study ice are saying that such changes may be the most important factor in the long-term behavior of ice. The unstated implication is that models which do not include these dynamics are poor excuses for the description of nature.
Date: Mon, Jan 14th, 2008
Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to research from the University of Bristol and published online recently in Nature Geoscience.
Article continues at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080113143438.htm
Article Name: Arctic Ice Retreating More Quickly Than Computer Models Project
From: The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mike's Comments: None of the ice predictions can be trusted. We continue to underestimate the rate at which ice can disappear by a large margin. The International Panel on Climate Change [IPPC] model, for example, doesn’t even use all the correct factors. It doesn’t allow for changes that might occur in the flow of ice from the land to the sea. Moreover, for over two hundred years, we have been steadfast in our refusal to believe that ice can change rapidly. Only now is the satellite data confirming our folly.
Date: Mon, Apr 30th, 2007
BOULDER—Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by even the most advanced computer models, a new study concludes. The research, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), shows that the Arctic's ice cover is retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of the 18 computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in preparing its 2007 assessments.
Article continues at: http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2007/seaice.shtml
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