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Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier Retreat Scaremongering


A guest post by my friend Lai Ying at the Greenwich Institute of Toxicology.


Global warming is a get-rich-quick scam invented by Al Gore when he was cold and hungry, sleeping in a doorway and penniless.  Stories that Al Gore was rich before he invented the CO2 scam are lies propagated by his cronies and acolytes.

That being so, it follows that all "evidence" in support of the global warming THEORY has either been faked or is the outcome of self-delusion by warmist agendists.
Arctic Ice July - Update #4



Once again my focus is on Nares Strait.  This time I want to show how glaciers can be affected indirectly by sea ice.

There are two major glaciers in the Nares Strait - Petermann and Humboldt.  Both are primed for calving.
Ashfall On Katla


Unless you have been vacationing on the far side of the moon, you will have seen lots of pictures of the recent Eyjafjallajökull eruption.


Location map, courtesy Wikimedia Commons

On July 12 there was a break in the clouds over Iceland making it possible to see the area of the volcano.  I have been waiting for a better picture, but according to Murphy's law the cloud will only disperse fully once I have lost patience with waiting and posted the Jul 12 image.
Biotransport and ocean mixing


Before I get into the 'bio' aspect of this article I want to put it in context by pointing to a means of ocean mixing that is not as well known as it deserves to be.  And to put that, in turn, in context: a new report from NSIDC confirms that there is a lot of open water in the central pack near the North Pole.  That open water was noted by one of my readers, Lord Soth in a comment.

Here is an abstract from the NSIDC report for July 20 2010:
Bridges That Build Themselves

The two oldest types of bridge are the arch bridge and the corbel bridge.  It takes a lot of time and effort to build them, but they can last for thousands of years.

Rockfalls can make natural bridges over streams, but the 'design' is very inefficient.  The water channels are easily blocked, with resultant flooding of the adjacent banks.

If I told you that a tornado could pick up rocks and drop them across a river so as to form a perfect arch bridge, you wouldn't believe me.  I hope.  The only way to build a stone arch bridge is to set up a type of scaffolding, shuttering, or former - more properly known as centering.
Jakobshavn Glacier Second Calving ?

The calving front of Jakobshavn glacier has retreated dramatically since about 1850, to the point that the two main outflow ice streams can be seen as separate calving fronts, Jakobshavn North and South.

Jakobshavn North recently calved a large floe which was widely reported by Arctic watchers and then picked up by the news media - and hyped up. 

For a non-hyped report I recommend http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/.../jakobshavn...