Does this finally put the global warming myth to bed once and for all?

Question

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/25/antartica.collapse.ap/index.html

If global warming were real, wouldn't the sea ice be melting everywhere and not just at the poles?

Answer 1

And now the rebuttal:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/sto...

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/globa...

Answer 2

Actually the Antarctic ice mass is far larger than normal.  These ice bergs are just the result of ice expanding to areas never before reached in modern times breaking off.

"Scientist" blame everything on "global warming" just to see their name in print, and the media looks for "scientist" who make that claim.

Answer 3

No, the poles have warmed more than elsewhere, and everything I've read says this is exactly what global warming scientists expected.

Addition: This is not what GW scientists expected. They didn't expect them to warm this fast and they are amazed at how fast they have warmed.

Question should be, can we put the global cooling beliefs by skeptics on here to bed?

Answer 4

ok, i didn't go to the website there but i can tell you that global warming is not a myth. it's real. besides, where else is ice besides the poles? i'm sure there are other places besides those engulfed in a vast frozen wasteland, but seriously. the poles are where it's affected most. People can see changes occurring more there than other places in the world.

Answer 5

I went to the site you listed.....it is very interesting and scary.

I wish I had a solid answer for you.

Sorry!

God, bless us all!!

Answer 6

LOL well I think your question is sarcastic, but the sad part is that the global warming denier arguments and logic are so poor that it's really hard to tell.

The unfortunate reality is that glaciers have also been retreating worldwide over the past 150 years.

Answer 7

What are you talking about!?!?! That article gives evidence for global warming!!!  your right though......sea ice is only melting at the poles, basically because thats the only place there is sea ice (for now)!!

Answer 8

There aren't very many places that have oceanic ice outside of the poles, so it would be unlikely to melt anywhere but at the poles.  

Further, CFC's and other greenhouse gases are collecting at the poles, meaning that global warming is experiencing greater temperature changes there than anywhere else on the planet.

Answer 9

Well it is, of course.  What do you find in this post that suggests otherwise?  I don't know of any "sea ice" except the polar caps.  The glaciers are certainly melting.  The Himalayan glaciers were measured for the first time last year.  It was really interesting.  Apparently all glaciers have a thin radioactive layer from the A-bomb tests in the 1950's and 1960's.  They use that as a sort of calibration because it represents a known time period.  There is a layer from the Chernobyl accident that is used in the same way.  The Himalayas were the last major glacier to be mapped.  When they got up there they found that the radioactive marker layers were not there.  Melting had already gone past that point, so the rate of melting will have to be measured by different means.  It's important to know that the melt from those glaciers supplies most of the water for the country of China.  The glaciers in the alps are releasing a lot of interesting historic relics.  The best known is the famous "Iceman", a stone age human who had been frozen in the ice.  The glaciers Ansel Adams photographed in the 1920's in the Cascades, Yosemite, and places like that used to retreat a few inches a year.  People checking on them recently found they had retreated miles in a half century.  There is a project underway to photograph all those same locations Ansel had documented, to track the differences.

Answer 10

This is such a good question.  You are quite correct.  If I am following your logic, a collapsing ice shelf in Antarctica convincingly demonstrates the planet is cooling, not warming.  Everyone knows that when you put ice in a soda pop, the soda cools down and the ice melts, so melting ice correlates in a causal fashion with overall cooling.  So the fact that the ice shelf collapsed indicates, just like ice in a soda, the world is cooling.  Does that about sum up what you think this observation implies?