Scientist Watches Glacier Melt Beneath His Feet : NPR
Thompson tells NPR's Guy Raz he has conducted 57 expeditions around the world, but this trip was unusual. It was the first one where he experienced rain on the glacier every day.
"Rain is probably the most effective way to ... cause the ice to melt," Thompson says. "So this was the first time you could see the surface actually lowering around you."
While Thompson and his team were there drilling cores, he says, they witnessed the three-mile high glacier drop 12 inches in just two weeks.
"If that's representative of the annual ice loss on these glaciers," he says, "you're looking at losing over seven meters of ice in a year. Unfortunately, that glacier's going to disappear in as little as five years if that rate continues."
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Thompson is a warming alarmist flack, and NPR is engaging in propaganda in support one side of an ongoing political debate, involving massive costs in taxes and government-mandated changes in energy usage.
Thompson is an expert in ice cores.
His publication record is of no interest here. We are discussing this article, in which Thompson comments on, not ice cores, his specialty, but rather his observation of the weather on Puncak Jaya, and the fact that ice melted when it rained. Unless you are Chicken Little, this is not science.
In the next 24 hours, as reported on snow-forecast.com, snowfall is forecast to dump 8.3 inches on the glacier. The next day, 7.5 additional inches. The next 3 days are forecast to add 14.5 inches of snow.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Carstensz-Pyramid/6day/top
In my calculations, mirroring the ice corer's Chicken Little science, that's nearly 30 inches added to the depth of the glacier in 4 days! At that rate, the Puncak Jaya glacier will be one mile deep in only 40 years!
Oh no! Henny Penny, run away!
Ludicrous is as ludicrous does.
Lonnie and NPR should retract this ridiculous scare-mongering.
Thompson is a warming alarmist flack, and NPR is engaging in propaganda in support one side of an ongoing political debate, involving massive costs in taxes and government-mandated changes in energy usage.
Thompson is an expert in ice cores.
His publication record is of no interest here. We are discussing this article, in which Thompson comments on, not ice cores, his specialty, but rather his observation of the weather on Puncak Jaya, and the fact that ice melted when it rained. Unless you are Chicken Little, this is not science.
In the next 24 hours, as reported on snow-forecast.com, snowfall is forecast to dump 8.3 inches on the glacier. The next day, 7.5 additional inches. The next 3 days are forecast to add 14.5 inches of snow.
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Carstensz-Pyramid/6day/top
In my calculations, mirroring the ice corer's Chicken Little science, that's nearly 30 inches added to the depth of the glacier in 4 days! At that rate, the Puncak Jaya glacier will be one mile deep in only 40 years!
Oh no! Henny Penny, run away!
Ludicrous is as ludicrous does.
Lonnie and NPR should retract this ridiculous scare-mongering.
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