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By Robert Felix
The 3,000-meter (9,842-feet) thick ice-cap is a key concern in debates about climate change because a total melt would raise world sea levels by about 7 meters. But satellite measurements show that more snow is falling and thickening the ice-cap, especially at high altitudes, according to the report in the journal Science. The overall ice thickness changes are approximately plus 5 cm (1.9 inches) per year or 54 cm (21.26 inches) over 11 years, according to the experts at Norwegian, Russian and U.S. institutes led by Ola Johannessen at the Mohn Sverdrup center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography in Norway. Not overwhelming growth, certainly, but a far cry from the catastrophic melting that we've been lead to believe.
Think about that. Put the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets together, and they're one hundred times bigger than all of the rest of the world's glaciers combined. More than 90 percent of the world's glaciers are growing, in other words, and all we hear about are the ones that are shrinking. But if so many of the world's glaciers are growing, how can sea levels remain the same? They can't. The sea level models are wrong. During the last ice age, sea levels stood some 370 feet (100 meters) lower than today. That's where all of the moisture came from to create those two-mile-high sheets of ice that covered so much of the north. And just as the ice has been melting for 11,000 years, so too were sea levels rising during those same years. But the rising has stopped. Forget those IPCC claims. Sea levels are not rising, says Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, one-time expert reviewer for the IPCC.
Dr. Mörner, who received his PhD in geology in 1969, is one of the
greatest - if not the greatest - sea level experts in the world today.
He has worked with sea level problems for 40 years in areas scattered
all over the globe. "We do not need to fear sea-level rise," says Mörner. "(But) we should have a fear of those people who fooled us." So there you have it. More falsehoods from Al Gore, the multimillionaire businessman who some say is set to become the world's first carbon billionaire. Our glaciers are growing, not melting — and the seas are not rising. I agree with Dr. Mörner, but I'd make it a tad stronger. We should have a fear of those people who have conned us. « Previous Page │ 1 │ 2 │ 3
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