Hello Jim Torson, re that Observer article: Check out this plot of seasonal temperatures in the Antarctic. http:// www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_Antarctica/Weather/Temperature/index.php
I don't know enough about the slope gradients involved to be sure. But I presume that even peripheral (coastal) glacial acceleration couldn't substantially affect the interior ice mass though glacial flow rate changes. And when you look at the temperatures involved at the Pole and Vostok you'd need a hell of a lot of warming to cause actual melt. -40 + 0.7 = -37.3, a bit more sublimation but no melt. I get REALLY REALLY annoyed at this sort of press. The Arctic has ocean beneath it, Antarctica (on the whole) does not. Combining the issue of N. Polar melt with S. Polar makes no sense at all! William Connelly: >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. Actaully it does has a value, in a market you give your readers what they want to read. Just wait, there'll be a Horizon programme about this 'bitter dispute in the scientific community" later this year. ;o) PS I had thought that AR4 Scientific Basis was going to be published on Friday, then I went back and actually read the press release and it's just the SPM. Doh! http://www.ipcc.ch/press/prwg1.htm "The full WGI Report, including 11 chapters and a Technical Summary, will be published by Cambridge University Press and should be available by mid-2007 in book form and online from IPCC web sites." :o( --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
