You may wish to look at some of the mass balance studies of the ice on Antarctica and Greenland. You will find that there is no consensus that either is loosing ice. The consensus is that increases in global temperatures (up to about 3 deg C.) melt the edges of the glaciers but lead to thickening of the glaciers at higher elevations due to increased precipitation.
You might wish to offer links to those observations so I can check them out. Elizabeth Kolbert has a bit about this in her recent book, which is likely to upset you because she uses the word "catastrophe" in her title. Ah, well, we can't all please the right wing wordsmiths.
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She notes that is much like the observation that one of the paradoxes of global warming is that the western portions of Europe including England are likely to get much colder as it progresses. While much of the rest of the globe is warming. Gulf stream and all that.
It does appear that the average global temperature has recently been rising at about 0.2 deg C/decade. How much of this is due to human activity is unknown.
You offer yet another observation without a link, without substantiation. As for the contribution of human activity, I offer you, once again, the observation from the Gore movie, completely uncontradicted to date, and made elsewhere, that of the referreed articles (something well north of 500) in prestigious science journals in recent years (can't recall exactly how many years) which address the issue of global warming and the contribution of human activity to it, none argue there is none. The scientific consensus is that there is such. Simply no debate on that point.
It is also unknown whether or not humans can do anything to stop climate change.
Yet another unsubstantiated, unlinked observation. Go read the literature, see the Gore movie, try to engage the people who care and write about it. The consensus so far in what I've read is that no end of things can be done about it. Whether they are enough, just what costs they amount to, etc., is all up for grabs, but no one, absolutely no one in the circle of those who care enough about the issue to devote their life work to it (the scientists for one ), argues nothing can be done. |
