Regis Philbin
Nov 18th, 2006, 05:14 PM
Oh, dear Lord! No! You mean this might all just be a natural cycle??? Oh, nooooooooooo!!!
You mean Republicans aren't causing this???
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_4674612
Arctic may be "fighting back" against rising warmth
By Robert Lee Hotz
Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated:11/16/2006 10:21:30 PM MST
An international team of scientists reported Thursday that rising temperatures are steadily transforming the Arctic - warming millions of square miles of permafrost, promoting lush greenery on previously arid tundras, and steadily shrinking the annual sea ice.
Yet the researchers also found new patterns of cooling ocean currents and prevailing winds that suggested the Arctic, long considered a bellwether of global warming, may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s.
Taken together, these findings may be evidence, the researchers said, of the region struggling to keep its balance, as rising temperatures slowly overturn the long-established order of seasonal variations.
"This is a region that is fighting back," said lead author Jacqueline Richter-Menge, a civil engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. "There are things that showed signs of going back to norms, trying to right themselves under very dire circumstances."
For a year, 20 researchers in seven countries reviewed the condition of the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and land at the top of the world. They summarized their findings in the "State of The Arctic," a report released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
On average, global temperatures have been steadily warming for decades - 2005 was the warmest year since recordkeeping began in 1880 - but the polar region appears to be warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Local weather variations at Earth's upper latitudes create a seesaw of annual hot spots and cold sinks above the Arctic Circle that, combined with incomplete data records, can easily disguise longer regional climate trends.
You mean Republicans aren't causing this???
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_4674612
Arctic may be "fighting back" against rising warmth
By Robert Lee Hotz
Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated:11/16/2006 10:21:30 PM MST
An international team of scientists reported Thursday that rising temperatures are steadily transforming the Arctic - warming millions of square miles of permafrost, promoting lush greenery on previously arid tundras, and steadily shrinking the annual sea ice.
Yet the researchers also found new patterns of cooling ocean currents and prevailing winds that suggested the Arctic, long considered a bellwether of global warming, may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s.
Taken together, these findings may be evidence, the researchers said, of the region struggling to keep its balance, as rising temperatures slowly overturn the long-established order of seasonal variations.
"This is a region that is fighting back," said lead author Jacqueline Richter-Menge, a civil engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. "There are things that showed signs of going back to norms, trying to right themselves under very dire circumstances."
For a year, 20 researchers in seven countries reviewed the condition of the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and land at the top of the world. They summarized their findings in the "State of The Arctic," a report released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
On average, global temperatures have been steadily warming for decades - 2005 was the warmest year since recordkeeping began in 1880 - but the polar region appears to be warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Local weather variations at Earth's upper latitudes create a seesaw of annual hot spots and cold sinks above the Arctic Circle that, combined with incomplete data records, can easily disguise longer regional climate trends.