« email and the environment | Main | crazy poll statistic »
July 15, 2008
now global warming increses glaciers
Fresh on the heels of yesterday revelation that Global Warming will cause more kidney stones we learn that it also creates glaciers in California. I'm not sure which claim is more ludicrous. First of all, someone actually (two colleges in Texas) wasted time researching global warming's relationship to kidney stones. It's amazing what passes for research these days. Just to prove that global warming can do anything, now we learn that it helps increase glaciers as well.
The glaciers on Mount Shasta in California are growing because of global warming, experts say. "When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking," said Slawek Tulaczyk, a University of California, Santa Cruz, professor who studied the glaciers.Did anyone ask the experts why the ocean isn't warming? For this crackpot theory to work the Ocean has to be warming and much like everything else on this topic the facts are irrelevant. What will these "experts" do if the Earth enters a cooling phase? My guess is they'll blame Global Warming.
But the seven glaciers on Shasta, part of the Cascade mountains in northern California, "seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean," he said. As the ocean warms, more moisture evaporates. As moisture moves inland, it falls as snow -- enough on Shasta to more than offset a 1 C temperature rise in the past century.
Posted by nemov at July 15, 2008 6:41 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.nemov.net/cgi/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2176