Polar Ice Caps Melting Less Than Reported by Climate Change Alarmists

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Look out!  It's global warming!  The alarmists behind Climategate and other so-called climate change research have been pushing a radical, environmental agenda since the 1960's.  Thanks to such people as Rachel Carson and her phony book Silent Spring, the environment has been a key issue for liberals as they try to impose massive, centralized, government control.  Many Americans believe in man-made global warming due to their education and the media, but this is because they aren't told the facts.  They're sold a false narrative in the name of the environment.  As it turns out, more lies have recently surfaced, showing that Earth's polar ice caps aren't melting as rapidly as enviro-Nazi's would have you believe.  

To be clear, climate change is cyclical.  Man-made global warming is a part of the extreme liberal agenda, so the government can eventually control every aspect of our lives, including the very air we breathe.  Cap and Trade was a failure that sought to fundamentally transform how Americans are controlled by the government from an enviro-Nazi perspective.

From the liberal U.S. News and World Report

Nearly 230 billion tons of ice is melting into the ocean from glaciers, ice caps, and mountaintops annually—which is actually less than previous estimates, according to new research by scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

If the amount of ice lost between 2003 and 2010 covered the United States, the whole country would be under one-and-a-half feet of water, or it'd fill Lake Erie eight times, researchers say. Ocean levels worldwide are rising about six hundredths of an inch per year, according to researcher John Wahr.

While vast quantities of ice melting into the ocean is not exactly good news, Wahr says, according to his team's estimates, about 30 percent less ice is melting than previously thought.

The team used data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite, which was launched as a joint project between NASA and Germany in 2002. The GRACE satellite measures gravity, which is related to mass, in 20 distinct regions worldwide. Wahr says that gives the team more accurate estimates, because previous teams had to measure ice loss at "a few easily accessible glaciers" and then extrapolate it to the 200,000 glaciers worldwide.

"It's tough to get an estimate [with previous methods]," he says.

With GRACE, the team can measure wide swaths of the earth, giving them a more complete picture. "It was time to do a complete global inventory," he says. Although the team used eight years of GRACE's data, Wahr says it's important to realize that melting patterns are hard to predict.

"Even with an eight-year estimate, it's not clear how far into the future you can project," he says. "A lot of people want to predict into the end of the century, but I think it's too dangerous to do that … We don't have enough info to know what'll happen. There's some ebb and flow to these things."

This story went largely unnoticed last week, but that's not uncommon.  Instead, we're still fed lies that man is causing global warming and only the government can fix.  The green movement is radical and violent (yes, we're talking to you, Earth Liberation Front) and wants to control the individual from every aspect.  It's a key pillar of liberalism.

Cliff Levine is a contributing editor for Habledash.

 

 

 

 

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