crandles wrote:
<a
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=ay4LBt_Tlv0Q&refer=latin_america";>Bloomberg</a>
[quote]
Further increases in the atmosphere of so-called greenhouse gases may
lead to global warming that causes the already- retreating ice to begin
melting four times faster in about 20 years' time[/quote]
Four times faster in about 20 years' time? Are they sure it isn't 4.5
times faster from 3 years ago.
<a
href="http://www.boincforum.info/boincuser/Crandles/IceExtentGraphFitsConfidenceD06.PNG";>Graph
I plotted</a>
OK 3 years is a bit short of a period for arriving at a new faster rate
but there does seem to be a change in behaviour sometime between 1998
and 2003.
Any comments?
Just that you could have posted a similar message on 3 separate
occasions in the recent past (eg 84, 90 and 95). Not that I'm saying
there isn't an acceleration - it would be interesting to hear what the
experts would actually bet on, one way or the other...
When does you line reach the ice-free state? You've dropped a zero
somewhere in your description, but if the correct gradient is 0.0135 per
month, that makes about 70 more years, right?
James
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