The Sound Of Settled Science

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Via Steven Goddard;

Long-forgotten aerial photographs of Greenland from the 1930s, rediscovered in a castle outside Copenhagen, have allowed researchers to construct a history of glacier retreat and advance in the area.

Most studies of Greenland’s glaciers have been done only since imaging satellites became available in the 1970s, so the data are relatively short-term. But using photographs from 1930s aerial surveys of the southeast coast of Greenland, together with US military aerial shots from the Second World War and recent satellite images, Bjørk and his colleagues have been able to observe changes at high spatial resolution from a period in which few glacier measurements were previously available.

Analysis of the images reveals that over the past decade, glacier retreat was as vigorous as in a similar period of warming in the 1930s.


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Stephen Goddard in a reply to a comment says, "I believe it will be looked upon as the biggest fraud in history." He is so right.

AGW: If it makes a few billionaires and impoverishes the masses, it's worth it.

What? You mean that we humans aren't responisble for every observable trend in nature - plus some "trends" so mendacious that only computer models can demonstrate them?

Damn. Now what can I do with all this anthropogenic climate change hubris? No, seriously, you can't take this stuff back and we've programmed a whole generation with this fraud; they're likely to be a bit P-O'd when they find the man behind the curtain is selling vapourware.

I keep posting these as: OMG! More great news for the planet! on Facebook.

Does anyone on this planet realize that 100 years is NOT long term for climate??? That is like a blip of a blip of time on this earth. It is only a long time when considered by the lifetime of a human being. I can't believe that we are taking data over 100 years (there isn't much recorded before then) and basing whole global theories on it. Crap.

Let's not forget,cAGW is only the UN's means of promoting Agenda 21.Using the word genocide is so passe now.

More bad news for Sleazuki and the Goracle,could not happen to more deserving individuals.Maybe now all the lefty teachers who drank each others bath water and taught the kids this fallacy perpetrated by their above mentioned idols can start teaching the truth.Naw that will never happen, it would take another ice age to get through that much indoctrination.

No, this is not true. Only we have the truth and the truth is - give us your money and freedom or we lock you in jail for disagreeing with us. Signed the Climate commissars

Kids (banks) don't have to "absorb" any lessons it daddy (gov't) always comes running with a blank cheque to save the day.

I always get a kick of the absolute silence of the global warming crowd and their sycophant cheerleaders in the "mainstream" media when stuff like this arises. One of my favorites is this little gem (somewhat paraphrased).

"The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions and hitherto un-heard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface.

In August, 1922, the Norwegian Department of Commerce sent an expedition to Spitzbergen and Bear Island under the leadership of Dr. Adolf Hoel, lecturer on geology at the University of Christiania.

In connection with Dr. Hoel’s report, it is interest to note the unusually warm summer in Arctic Norway and the observations of Capt. Martin Ingebrigtsen, who has sailed the eastern Arctic for 54 years past. He says that he first noted warmer conditions in 1915, that since that time it has steadily gotten warmer, and that to-day the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same region of 1865 to 1917. Many old landmarks are so changed as to be unrecognizable. Where formerly great masses of ice were found, there are now often moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared.

The change in temperature, says Captain Ingebrigtsen has also brought about great change in the flora and fauna of the Arctic. This summer he sought for white fish in Spitzbergen waters. Formerly great shoals of them were found there. This year he saw none, although he visited all the old fishing grounds."

Monthly Weather Review…November, 1922

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf

Several glaciers in the Northern hemisphere have been retreating since the late 18th C. The AGW ignoramuses don't know this or choose to ignore it.

And here I was just reading about how we have to reject the Right because of Global Warming "denialism" again. [smirk]

Bjørk's a musician and a scientist? Wow!

A pseudoscientist formulates a hypothesis and sets out to prove it. A scientist formulates a hypothesis and sets out to test it. AGW is pure pseudoscience.

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