I earlier asked you people about vast areas of melting near Greenland, please read below.?

Question

I intentionally did not provide a link in my last question.

I wonder, when I provide a link proving my statement about the melting if I get the same uninformed answers?

The link is a couple of videos, for those of you who may have difficulty reading.

Are the same people in denial about human impact on global warming, also in denial about the corruption of our current administration?

http://www.desmogblog.com/nasa-vidieo-astounding-arctic-sea-ice-melt

Answer 1

Anna R, have you considered that BOTH man-made GW AND the hot spot may be in actionj here?

Answer 2

Desmog is a web site trying to prove global warming is real.  Can you list some more reputable sources?

Answer 3

What does it matter? If ice is melting or not. People will adapt to the changes in weather. In the US when it gets cold we turn on the heat, when it gets hot we turn on the air. We are neither dumb animals or primitive savages. We control our environment. Are you so foolishly arrogant as to think the actions you engage in on a daily basis can effect the climate of the planet? I don't deny that the climate is changing. It always has been. If you think the current administration is somehow corrupt because it doesn't have the same sky is falling mind set as you do, than just how corrupt was the Clinton -Gore administration for doing nothing as well?

Answer 4

some people if they dont see it they dont believe it sad but true ... i saw that about the ice caps the other day ... my heart sank have we gotten so selfish of what we want that we are going to destroy life as we know it to get it? i am only one person and i do what i think is my share to try to reverse the damage that WE all have caused  i know that everyone does laundry and brushes the teeth and wipes the counter top off etc. i have changed where i shop for these products and it's money saving and eco- senseable as well  chec it out and email me with your thoughts its http/www.melaleuca.com  let me know ...im b.johne k.

Answer 5

Why is it you warmies always have to degrade the conversation to political bashing? Science is not about politics. There are no "sides" in science - only facts. When science becomes politicized (like it has with the AGW madness) we get this divisive polarization of society that accomplishes nothing.

Answer 6

"Are the same people in denial about human impact on global warming, also in denial about the corruption of our current administration?"

Many of them, yes.  They're also the same people who are in denial about evolution and the link between smoking and lung cancer.

If you peruse some of the other questions in this section, you'll notice that these people deny very basic scientific principles like the greenhouse effect.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

And when asked to support their positions with scientific evidence, they always fail.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

It's quite evident that no level of scientific evidence will convince these people.  They're in denial, which is why we call them 'deniers'.

Answer 7

That video is creepy.  I had no idea that the damage to the Arctic Ice Sheet was so extensive.

Eric, It's not that hard to find on the Internet.  Here is the video offered at NASA in several formats:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a00...

Anna, If you read the story at your link, it refers to the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream in remote areas of northeast Greenland.  They don't know what effect, if any, their discovery may have on the ice:

"For now, the researchers are combining theories of how heat flows through the mantle and crust with the gravity and radar data, to understand how the hotspot is influencing the ice."

They do not come out and conclude or claim that a hotspot is the primary explanation for even that single ice stream.  

At no point do they theorize that magma hotspots are responsible for most or all of the melting in Greenland or elsewhere:

"Once they finish searching the rest of Greenland for other hotspots, they hope to turn their attention to Antarctica."

It's fascinating that there may be geothermal hot spots in various places in the earth's crust, including under ice sheets, but their presence in some isolated cases, and their presumed (unstudied, unconfirmed) influence on indivudual ice streams isn't exactly a credible challenge to global warming theory.

Here's a video of Greenland ice melt from 1979 through 2007:

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a00...

The alleged warm spot in northeast Greenland isn't even visible.  It's irrelevant.

Voice of Reason -

I agree it isn't fundamentally a political issue (although the Republican party has unfortunately been documented as unwisely making the questioning science part of their current strategy: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist...

So why is it OK to engage in goofy name-calling ("warmies")?  Is there no skeptical evidence or science to offer or discuss?  Do you have anything at all to contribute to this topic/question?  No?

expreses - Gore signed Kyoto, but Congress had already passed a resolution stating they would not ratify it (as required).  Too late now, we'll have to get on board the next one.