New Satellite Proof of Global Warming
Posted on May 17, 2007 - 03:10 AM
By: Adam Beazley
Recently Global Warming has come under a lot of skepticism and has unfortunately turned into a debatable political issue. Fortunately and unfortunately, a NASA satellite recently detected proof of huge areas of snow melt in Antarctica in January of 2005. The QuikScat satellite detects snowmelt by using radar pulses that bounce off of the ice that forms when snowmelt refreezes.
According to LiveScience.com, this data has been consistently collected from July 1999 to July 2005 and shows clearly that substantial melting has occurred. Shown by the red and yellow areas in the image to the left, these melting areas add up to an area equal to that of California. Scientist also noticed that much of this melting has occurred far inland and at higher elevations, where melting was thought to be highly unlikely.
This melting ice could cause massive problems in the future if steps are not taken to stop global warming. Antarctica is the world’s largest fresh water reservoir and scientists believe that this fresh water runoff could change the salinity and temperature of the ocean in the area.� This change in temperature and/or salinity could have detrimental effects to the local currents and jet streams and cause global climate change.
Reference: LiveScience.com>
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By M Corrigan on 11/19/2007
Polar region were warmer in the 1940’s. Global temp is currently calculated with a computer model, not measured. Where is the global temp validated. It is not. This is science? Not the one I learned.
Global Warming has a consciences, such as Bush with WMD? Congratulations, your as smart as Bush!!!
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By Adam Beazley on 11/20/2007
Actually you are wrong, the temperatures in the United States were warmer in the 1940’s than they are now, but not the global temperature. You can see that here at the NASA Website.
Also, how in the hell do you take a global temperature measurement? of course its calculated with a computer, they take temperature measurements from every city in the world and calculate a global average temperature. this is not something which can be measured by one thermometer up in the hemisphere.
This is science, it’s called creating a hypothesis, collecting data and either proving or disproving the hypothesis. All of the evidence shows that global warming is in fact happening, where have you been?
So I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t insult my intelligence with your pseudo facts.
