Thursday, July 19, 2012

Time warmist Bryan Walsh: With temperatures below -60F in the summer, Antarctica allegedly "melting at a faster rate than scientists had predicted"

Google Street View of Antarctica Is Vital for Science—and Our Understanding of the Climate | Ecocentric | TIME.com
“It is a harbinger for what is going to happen in the rest of the world,” says Brad Herried, a research fellow at the Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota.
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The expedition took place from October 2011 to the beginning of January. That’s the “summer” for Antarctica, but even then the conditions made photography challenging. Herried, who was part of the expedition, remembers trying to keep the cameras and other equipment warm despite temperatures below -60 F. “It’s not easy and it’s not comfortable,” he says.
...Antarctica is changing quickly, melting at a faster rate than scientists had predicted in the 2007 U.N. assessment on climate change.

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