Scientists? Which scientists? What about the rest of the planet?
The most comprehensive measurement of glaciers worldwide found that thousands of inland masses of snow compressed into ice are shrinking 18 percent faster than an international panel of scientists calculated in 2013.Question: Is that 'statistically significant"? Or just more careful measurement? Or 'adjustments'?
The world's glaciers are shrinking five times faster now than they were in the 1960s. Their melt is accelerating due to global warming, and adding more water to already rising seas, the study found.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, but it is the man-made part of global warming? How much is the solar cycle part of global
"Over 30 years suddenly almost all regions started losing mass at the same time," said lead author Michael Zemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich. "That's clearly climate change if you look at the global picture."
30 years. Climate change. Got it, Mr. Scientist.
The glaciers shrinking fastest are in central Europe, the Caucasus region, western Canada, the U.S. Lower 48 states, New Zealand and near the tropics. Glaciers in these places on average are losing more than 1 percent of their mass each year, according to a study in Monday's journal Nature.
But not Greenland? South America? Antarctica?
"In these regions, at the current glacier loss rate, the glaciers will not survive the century," Zemp said.
That's what the 'scientists' said last century.
Zemp's team used ground and satellite measurements to look at 19,000 glaciers, far more than previous studies. They determined that southwestern Asia is the only region of 19 where glaciers are not shrinking, which Zemp said is due to local climate conditions.
Far more data than previous studies? So you're comparing this year's apples to last year's persimmons.
Scientists have known for a long time that global warming caused by human activities like burning coal, gasoline and diesel for electricity and transportation is making Earth lose its ice. They have been especially concerned with the large ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica.
See above. Those areas seem to be omitted from the scary 'trends'. How convenient!
This study, "is telling us there's much more to the story," said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, who wasn't part of the study. "The influence of glaciers on sea level is bigger than we thought."And so on. So the 'settled science' wasn't so settled, after all.
| It never is. I read this morning that the solar scientists are now concerned that the current minimum may last twice as long as usual. |