Polar regions found warming fast, raising sea levels

[Nostalgia]

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Arctic and Antarctic regions are warming faster than previously thought, raising world sea levels and making drastic global climate change more likely than ever, international scientists said on Wednesday.

New evidence of the trend was uncovered by wide-ranging research in the two areas over the past two years in a United Nations-backed program dubbed the International Polar Year (IPY), they said.

"Snow and ice are declining in both polar regions, affecting human livelihoods as well as local plant and animal life in the Arctic as well as global atmospheric circulation and sea-level," according to a summary of a report by the researchers.

An assessment of the findings of the research was still being refined, said the IPY's "State of Polar Research" report.

"But it now appears certain that both the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass and thus raising sea level, and that the rate of ice loss from Greenland is growing," it said.

"New data also confirm that warming in the Antarctic is much more widespread than it was thought prior to IPY."

More than 63 countries and some 10,000 scientists took part in the $1.5 billion program, which began in March 2007 and ends next month.

IPY experts told a news conference that melting appeared to be speeding up, especially in the Western Antarctic region that stretches to near the southern tip of Latin America and which had earlier been thought stable.

"One could expect to see quite dramatic changes in weather in Chile and Argentina as a result," said Ian Allison, a co-chairman of the program's steering committee.

Such a trend would be felt around the world.

David Carlson, director of IPY's international program office, said levels of salt in the sea around the Antarctic were growing, indicating that the continent's underlying ice shelves were melting.

But the experts said the exact speed of these developments was difficult to measure, and the global effect they were likely to have impossible to predict accurately given the current research tools available.

The overall global warming trend has long been tracked by another U.N.-sponsored body, the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). The mandate of the IPY, which is linked with the IPCC, was to focus on what is happening around the poles.

Like the IPCC, the IPY experts said even a relatively small rise in sea-levels could threaten huge populations of cities in low-lying coastal areas, mainly in developing countries but in Europe and North America as well.

The report said research under the IPY had revealed larger-than-expected pools of carbon in Arctic permafrost, or frozen terrain, which further warming could release into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gas.

But it gave no estimates of the size of these pools.

While the challenges to funding posed by the economic crisis, the report said governments need to keep pumping money into North and South Pole research in order to keep tabs on global warming pressures.

It was the fourth internationally coordinated scientific program on the polar regions, following previous efforts undertaken in 1882-83, 1932-33 and 1957-58.

The IPY was organized by the independent International Council for Science and the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

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So Everybody's sea is rising but not mine right?

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -/E-Wire/-- The old saying "Out of sight out of mind" is, without a doubt, true in many cases. It is particularly applicable to "Global Warming", "The Kyoto Protocol" and the Tuvalu Islands.

The fate of the Tuvalu Islands has been publicized worldwide in all the media. The encroaching sea is being attributed to Global Warming. Many documentaries have been made of the situation at Tuvalu and the plight of the inhabitants there. Their Islands are being swamped by the rising ocean. The Global Warming proponents are adamant that Carbon Emissions and the burning of fossil fuels are the cause of rising seas. The debate espouses that all the C02 produced from these emissions is causing the icecaps to melt. The conclusion of the argument is that the melting icecaps are causing the sea levels to rise.

Tuvalu has been used as an example of what is going to happen to low lying countries around the world as the ice caps melt. Tuvalu is, therefore, being used to keep our minds on rising sea levels supposedly caused by Global Warming? Tuvalu is a prima facie case in the Global Warming debate. But is the evidence conclusive? Just how conclusive it is we will see? The Carteret Islands are a part of Papua New Guinea located 86 miles north-east of Bougainville in the South Pacific at 4-45S, 155-24E. The Atoll is horseshoe shaped scattered along a 24 mile chain of low lying islands. The Islands run in a north-south direction with a maximum elevation of 5 feet and a total land area of less than a square mile. The Carteret Islands have much in common with Tuvalu. The media has, however chosen to ignore their dilemma. Why has the media spotlighted rising seas at Tuvalu and ignored the tragedy of the Carteret Islands. The only logical conclusion one can draw is that the Carteret Islands are being kept 'out of sight by the media in order to add support to the rising sea level arguments of the Global Warming lobby. In other words it is and inconvenient truth.

If the situation at the Carteret Islands is exposed it will most definitely weaken the "Global Warming" hypothesis. This explanation seems plausible because the Carteret Islands are also sinking into the Pacific. "Global Warming" is already under grave suspicion i.e. as far as sea level rise is concerned. As I said before "Global Warming" is a fact of life, and the heat has been increasing over many years. Global Warming is not however, causing sea levels to rise. On the contrary sea levels are falling. The melting of the icecaps and their fresh water contribution to the seas will not make any difference to sea levels. Sea levels are falling constantly and will continue to do so even if all the ice caps melt. So the real moot point is…….What causes "Global Warming"? In my article 'TUVALU STATE OF FEAR" I suggested that the Tuvalu Islands were sinking because of tectonic activity on the Pacific Ocean Floor.

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England use to be joined to FRANCE.

England is now an Island, did man made "Global Warming" do that?


Every Year Water and other debris enters the Earth's atmosphere from space, it will continue as long as there is debris attracted by our gravitational field.

Have you any idea how much water in the form of ice is floating about in space?



FACT: The planet is 2 degrees colder than 4000 BC, We have had 2 Industrial Revelations since then - hence - no Industrial activity has significantly effected the global temperature (but it has caused pollution which does need urgent attention).

CO2 use to be over double what it is now and life on earth thrived because PLANTS thrived!.


Wake up IDIOTS!

If plants thrive - we thrive!

Quite simply, "Global Warming" can not be caused by a small increase in CO2, we are being conned by the ECO-LIARS!

Originally Posted by Victor

England use to be joined to FRANCE.

Fuck Off blasphemer! next you will have us believing Atlantis!

Its A FACT:

Yeh Exactly, did "Man Made" "Global Warming" sink all those buildings which ARE under the ocean some 20 or so Metres?

If plants thrive - we thrive!


Where the hell do you cretins think the plants get the building block for their cells to grow?


Did you think it sucks up the soil through its roots?

MUPPET DILDO ECO LIARS!


LOL

Now Fuck off with your "Global Bullshit"