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To: Brumar89 who wrote (74902)2/16/2017 10:26:52 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86355
 
Study: Advancing glaciers in New Zealand are a sign of ‘regional cooling’
Anthony Watts / 2 hours ago February 15, 2017

Franz Josef glacier, which grew almost continuously in the 25 years to 2008

Reader Phil Hutchings writes via email:

This article in Nature Communications caught my eye!

This is a beauty. This week, Nature Communications published an explanation as to why (at least) 58 New Zealand glaciers grew in the twenty-five years to 2008.

The aberrant behaviour by these naughty glaciers was perfectly explicable though – it was caused by “regional cooling”.

Researchers from NZ’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and Victoria University prepared, yes, a model of the Southern Alps. And yes, they found that in their model, lower air and adjacent ocean temperatures (during those 25 years) were correlated with the growing glaciers.

Fair enough.

But where is the support for this claim ?

“While this sequence of climate variability and its effect on New Zealand glaciers is unusual on a global scale, it remains consistent with a climate system that is being modified by humans”

The paper:
Mackintosh, A.N, Anderson, B.M, Lorrey, A.M, Renwick, J.A., Prisco Frei, & Dean, S.M., Regional cooling caused recent New Zealand glacier advances in a period of global warming. Nature Communications, February 2017

nature-communications-feb-2017 (PDF)

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (74902)2/16/2017 10:27:16 AM
From: Eric  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86355
 
Nope

I didn't.

You don't understand the gas laws.

Go to any university, college or high school and learn the science.

That chart is only accurate at sea level pressure.

Try again....



To: Brumar89 who wrote (74902)2/16/2017 10:29:06 AM
From: Eric  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 86355
 
Nope

I didn't.

You don't understand the gas laws.

Go to any university, college or high school and learn the science.

That chart is only accurate at a sea level pressure of:10.1 N/cm2 or 101,000 N/m2

Your forgetting the carrying capacity of sea water just inches below the surface, and it gets greater the deeper you go.

Try again....