[quote=Hobie]
phaster: And one final wrench to throw into these climate talks – Antarctica. Why is the ice pack expanding there? Science can’t answer that either. If I were to bet, I’d look at the oceans. And the arctic wind patterns that don’t readily seem to draw the air down from the population centers where the most C02 is generated. And let’s not forget C02 is measured in trace amounts which again makes it tricky to specifically hang the reason of increasing ice thickness.
Well maybe. There is no plant life down there to convert it to oxygen so there you go, yup we definitely have to fix that pesky C02. Proceed with the Paris Talks. ;)[/quote]
In years ahead (perhaps after its much too late) what is happening to the ice cap in Antarctica is going to become very apparent.
One has to understand that part of the world is isolated because of open oceans, the amount of ice is a magnitude larger than what in ice land/green land AND that there are two types of ice (part of it is sea ice and the other part is over land)
The NOVA program “earth from space” is very good IMHO because it takes lots of data and turns it into pretty animated pictures and a story line
otherwise one would have to read individual articles and then try to integrate everything into a big picture:
Since you now know about the Aral sea, what you might find surprising is that is not the only large body of water to disappear because of farming mis-managment, in Iran here is another news video that shows what is happening….
If you think its just a problem over there, there was a 60 minutes news story that shows the same short sighted water mismanagement is happening here in the central valley of california
