Austrian glaciers shrink dramatically
The Khumbu Glacier is seen here in Kathmandu in 2009. Austria's glaciers shrank dramatically this summer, the most since a record hot period in 2003, principally because of low amounts of snow the preceding winter, scientists said.
Austria's glaciers shrank dramatically this summer, the most since a record hot period in 2003, principally because of low amounts of snow the preceding winter, scientists said.
The Goldbergkees glacier in the Alps, for instance, is on average two metres (6.5 feet) thinner than in 2010, losing around seven percent of its mass, the ZAMG national meteorological institute said.
Glaciers generally shrink in the summer months and grow again in the winter, and in recent years more has generally melted than has been replaced. This year however the loss has been particularly marked, the ZAMG said.
"Although 2011's summer wasn't particularly hot, the losses are as extreme as during the 2003 summer of the century," climatologist Berhard Hynek said.
Snow levels were much lower than normal in the eastern Alps after an unusually warm and dry winter. On the 3,000-metre (10,000-feet) Hoher Sonnblick, for example, the level was only two-thirds of the 80-year average on May 1.
Mountain glaciers and snow cover in both hemispheres have retreated in the past few decades because of changes to the Earth's climate blamed by the vast majority of scientists on the rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
(c) 2011 AFP
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Answer me that Mr. Scientist.
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I'm starting to report your posts as "abuse" from here on. Not only are you off-topic, you're now cross-posting (copy-pasting) the same garbage across multiple threads. You've turned from an unhinged crank into an outright spammer.
Oh, as for:
"variable heat source": solar flares are the hidden truth?
[1]: economic fraud = scientific fraud?
[2]: What they call "pulsar" is not what you think, as is OBVIOUS from the five-sentence abstract.
[3]: more tooting of your own cranking horn.
[4]: Elvis? Really??
Just take your pills, and go back to whatever mental asylum you've escaped from.
Neutron stars don't disintegrate on their own. The galaxy does not contain less than 8 solar masses worth of material. No gas can be present next to a neutron star at non-relativistic velocities, without falling onto the neutron star and becoming part of it.
Your grasp of physics does not even begin to approach your grasp of your children's genitals. Begone, troll.
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http://www.scienc...3301.htm
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http://data.giss..../graphs/
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Ice and cold water serve as a temporary heat sink for the excess heat.
Do not be deceived. Just because the "temperature" rise may level off doesn't mean it isn't getting "hotter". The specifice heat capacity of water is higher than air, and the heat of melting of water is around 80 times the specific heat capacity of water.
Once all the ice melts, the ocean temperatures and air temperatures will rise much faster: around 80 times faster, actually...
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Once all the glaciers are gone, the resultant more rapid warming may manifest in the high latitudes (though I doubt any factor approaching 80 would come into play -- partly because those are HIGH latitudes, receiving relatively little sun in the first place.)
In the mid-to-low latitudes, the effect is probably negligible, as there isn't THAT much heat transport to/from the poles relative to direct gain from the Sun and loss of heat to space.
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AT 1.5 meter/second flow rate, it takes around 80 days for warm water to flow from the tropical region to the arctic, which is part of the reason the peak of melt season is offset by an entire season from the longest day of the year.
The circulation of ocean water is colder on the NE side of basins in the N hemisphere because cold, melted water flows south from the melted ice.
As we heat up, isotherms on the W side of basins stretch farther and farther N, but the easter side of the basins lags behind, because of the buffer of ice in the N oceans.
Whenever the ice is gone, this buffer will be gone, and the isotherms will even out more and more. The water temps on the E. Atlantic will end up being about the same as the temps on the W. atlantic at the same lattitude.
I'm talking maybe 2045, several years after first complete sea ice melt down (minus any greenland calving...)
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look closer. its austria, not australia.
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Space.com did no such thing. That article did not support you in anyway. For that matter neither have you.
So just how do Neutron Stars form when neutron repulsion is alleged by you to be so powerful that it stops Black Holes from forming no matter how large the mass?
Ignoring the question won't magically make you right Oliver. The ideas are contradictory and I bet even the Plasma Universe Cranks can see that now that it has been pointed out.
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