Massive glacier shrinks by a fifth - AL GORE is right... DEBUNKERS F#*@ OFF

Temperatures have risen throughout the solar system.

Al Gore is, besides being the "inventor of the internet", a complete nutball.

You are a rube.

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Massive glacier in sub-Antarctic island shrinks by a fifth

PARIS (AFP) – One of the biggest glaciers in the southern hemisphere shrivelled by a fifth in 40 years, French scientists said on Wednesday.

The Cook glacier on Kerguelen, an island in France's southern Indian Ocean territories, covered 501 square kilometres (193 square miles) in 1963.

Combining satellite images with other data, glaciologists from the Laboratory for Studying Geophysics and Space Oceanography estimate the glacier lost an average of nearly 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) in height each year by 2003, shedding almost 22 percent of its original volume.

In terms of area, the glacier shrank by 1.9 sq. kms. (0.74 sq. miles) per year from 1963 to 1991.

Thereafter the loss doubled, to 3.8 sq. kms (1.48 sq. miles) per year. By 2003, the glacier covered only 403 sq. kms (155 sq. miles), a retreat of 20 percent compared with 1963.
The study has been accepted by a US publication, the Journal of Geophysical Research.

It says Cook's early shrinkage could be attributed in part to the residual effect of natural warming that ocurred after the "Little Ice Age" that ended in the late 19th century.

But the post-1991 warming is linked more to higher temperatures and low precipitation that began to occur in the early 1980s.

This is also a period when man-made carbon emissions started to soar and the Southern Ocean that girdles Antarctica showed perceptible warming.

Other studies in Patagonia, South Georgia and Heard Island have also suggested that warmer seas are leading to "strong and accelerated wastage" of glaciers on the fringes of Antarctica, the paper says.

Yes there is some slight global warming. But it is NOT man made dumbass!

The models are pretty consistent, though.

Temperatures have risen throughout the solar system.

Al Gore is, besides being the "inventor of the internet", a complete nutball.

You are a rube.

FOX NEWS JUST REPORTED THAT IT WAS 58 DEGREES IN NASHVILLE, TENN. THIS MORNING. IT HASN'T BEEN THAT COLD AT THIS TIME OF YEAR IN NASHVILLE IN ...

132 YRS.

I BELIEVE AL GORE LIVES IN NASHVILLE. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT GOD IS SENDING HIM AND ALL THE GLOBAL WARMING NUT CASES A MESSAGE.

Temperatures have risen throughout the solar system.

Al Gore is, besides being the "inventor of the internet", a complete nutball.

You are a rube.



When glaciers become too large to support their own weight/size ratio possible for the age, hardness and type of ice lattice they do what is called calving. They appear to be shrinking by breaking off pieces, when in fact they have exceeded the size for structural integrity to be maintained. They calve as nature balances itself.

Yes there is some slight global warming. But it is NOT man made dumbass!