On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Jim Torson wrote: > http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2000533,00.html > > Experts split over climate danger to Antarctica > Scientists challenge 'cautious' UN report
> Would our resident BAS person (or anybody else) care to comment > on this subject? The newspaper report, like most such, is cr*p. They should wait for the bl**dy thing to be published instead of trying to produce silly stories like this that have no value at all. To quote: "But when it comes to certain types of climate change, especially those concerned with Antarctica, the report is fairly coy. 'Current global studies project the Antarctic ice sheet will remain too cold for widespread surface melting and is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall,' states the draft version of the report." Fair enough, nothing wrong there. "But this vision is disputed. Last year, Dr Turner and colleagues, using records returned by Russian research balloons that were flown over the whole of Antarctica between 1971 and 2003, discovered that temperatures in the lowest level of the atmosphere over the continent have already risen by about 0.7C. Their paper, in Science, was published in March, too late for inclusion in the IPCC's deliberation." B*ll*cks: because of the first sentence. The rest is fine (except for the Russina bit: its all nations; whoever wrote this stuff is obviously totally sh*t*), but the first sentence produces a totally artificial controversy. I rather doubt they even spoke to JT. I won't venture to contradict our director in a public forum :-) -W. William M Connolley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/met/wmc/ Climate Modeller, British Antarctic Survey | (01223) 221479 -- This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
