As I have mentioned in the past you cannot take one isolated spot on the earth and claim the planet is cooling. Here is my take on the Iceland ice pack:
The Labrador current flows north past Greenland than heads East as the ice blocks any further northerly direction then meanders south on both sides of Great Britain. Iceland is somewhere in the middle of this eastward flow. As the Arctic ice melts the Labrador current moves further northward before heading east and also carries the loose ice with it towards Iceland where it tends to pile up. You can see the same effect when leaves float downstream in a river. Small whirlpools develop around clumps of tree roots and other obstructions and along the river's edges. Leaves can be caught in these whirlpools for a long time. I also claim that taking temperatures on any land mass over a period of time proves nothing whether the planet is warming or cooling. Land accounts for only 1/7 or 14% of the total earth's surface. It is the oceans that control all weather and planet temperatures. By total volume, the oceans account for 80% of the planet total volume, leaving the core to account for most of the remainder. The volume of the land mass is only about 3 or 4% and cannot affect the planet's temperature by any significant amount. The Sun's heat does not penetrate the land mass to any great extent probably no more than five feet which is why the soil at that depth remains pretty much at 55 degrees F. all year long. The specific heat of water is 1.00 while granite that composes most of the land mass is 0.19 which means the oceans can absorb many times the number of BTU that the earth's crust can absorb. Moreover, water circulates both horizontally and vertically which the land mass does not. In fact the land mass absorbs a small amount of heat when the sun is shining and gives it back at night, whereas the oceans can absorb/emit the heat and then circulate is somewhere else rather than lose/gain it immediately. Since there are very few ocean monitoring stations in place around the world we do not know the history of ocean temperature. However, we do know that corral beds around the world are dying, e.g. Australia's Barrier Reef, from warmer water and the Northwest passage is opening more every year. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Publius Maximus" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 8:47 PM Subject: [OT] Science: Another Ice Age? http://bit.ly/63Zn3I - - - As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age. Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. - - - Every time I reread this Time magazine blast from the past, I get a warm-fuzzy feeling about scientific consensus, not unlike what I experience when downing two or three glasses of single-malt Scotch whiskey. Ahhh! Damn, it's going down to near freezing Sunday night here in Tampa. Better stock up! - Publius -- "It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country, under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful and vigilant performance of the trust." [Federalist Papers #59] [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/f7de3fc47f3242a1909059ed24c2b...@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
