Re: Laser Satellite Altimetry Documents Extreme Polar Ice Changes

Laser Satellite Ice Sheet Measurements Document Extreme Melting
http://www.earth-stream.com/outpage.php?s=18&id=206642
After analyzing 50 million laser measurements from a NASA satellite, British scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have painted a frightening picture for Greenland and Antarctica, with glaciers melting at extreme rates. While the fact that polar ice is melting is not breaking news, the rate at which it is moving, and the method for gathering the technology is surprising. .....

reported in Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature08471.html

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

And a similar story from "the Onion":
http://www.earth-stream.com/outpage.php?s=18&id=206678

When one scientist was confronted with the new information about the Polar Ice Caps thinning he responded, "No sheet?"

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

The Onion is amazingly creative. "Cat General Declares War On String May Be Unwinnable." LOL

So the polar ice caps are melting at a rate alarming to some people. Where's the dramatic rise in sea level?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327273.600-river-deltas-are-sinking-thanks-to-us.html


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090310104742.htm

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Hardly dramatic. A little less than eight inches over 120 years. Wow.