Lakes Found Under Antarctic Ice Using Space Lasers 77
Reverse Gear writes "There is a new study circling the media about new lakes found underneath the antarctic ice sheets that apparently empty and fill back up quite fast. 'The scientists allay fears that global warming has created these pockets of water. They say these lakes lie some 2,300 feet below compressed snow and ice, too deep for environmental temperature to reach. However, it is necessary to understand what causes the phenomenon as it can facilitate an understanding of the impact of climate change on the ice sheet in Antarctica.' NASA also has some information on the technique used to detect these lakes."
ICESAT is Cool (Score:5, Informative)
http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [nasa.gov]
There have been reports of people actually 'seeing' the laser as the satellite goes over:
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2003/0064.html [satobs.org]
New water holes way under the ice. Fun. I wonder if we will find even more 'new species' as was reported here:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/
Re:serious question ... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:We're doomed. BFD! (Score:4, Informative)
Now on to the sitations...
Mars is experiencing the SAME rate of warming that earth is. No possible human cause.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_ice-
http://www.heartland.org/Article.
From the 40's through the 70's the concern was global cooling. In a nutshell earths temperatures declined right at the point when emissions for the most part were the worst.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Note that as of 2002 we were complaining about Antartica's cooling temperatures. Someone forgot to inform the Antartica Temperature Management Team that they were supposed to turn UP the thermostat so that Antartica could conform to the computer models.
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20020015034521
As late as the 14th and 15th centuries there were frickin' dairy farms on the coast of greenland! Warm enough at that time for frickin dairy farms but lo' there was a mini ice age and it killed them off. Geenland isn't as warm now as it was just a few hundred years ago!
https://conservationfinance.wordpress.com/2006/
Satellite (read: stratospheric) temperature readings do NOT show ANY appreciable difference in the atmospheric temperatures
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/MSU/msusci.html
I am way too lazy to keep typing tags. Humans do not cause global warming. Now that I've trolled, flamed, and generally irritated people by saying this, I humbly accept the karma beating I am about to take. That's okay, I can creat another account
Re:The next boogeyman? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Formula for global warming OMGWTFBBQ!!1! (Score:4, Informative)
Anyone who wants an accessible overview of the science can do much better than watching the shouting heads by taking a look at the IPCC summary for policymakers [www.ipcc.ch].
And any story that talks about one Siberian town getting colder, or about one single hurricane, is an insult to your intelligence and should be treated as such.
Re:We're doomed. BFD! (Score:4, Informative)