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I asked a friend of mine ......

Posted by Christer on Thu Nov 07, 2002 05:32:53 AM

In reply top Re: Greenland P-38's posted by Steve Hinton on Wed Nov 06, 2002 11:19:26 PM

...... who?s a met-man, probably one of the most experienced in Sweden and this is his comment, translated to english (I hope):

Global Warming should be understood as a general increase of the average temperature of the whole atmosphere.
It doesn?t mean, however, that it gets warmer everywhere, some areas can even get slightly colder.

It gets even more complicated when humidity is entered into the equation. A slightly warmer air mass can contain more water vapour which would mean more clouds and more precipitation. If the local increase in temperature isn?t too high, still below feezing that is, it could actually result in growth of the ice-cap so, You?re right that the "experts" don?t know either.

Would it be possible that these aircraft have slowly sunk into the ice as well, as a small but still contributing factor?

End of translation.

My personal reflection is that from 1942 to 1960 there was no growth, from 1960 to 1989 the average growth was 10 feet per year and from 1989 to 1992 the average growth was 20 feet per year.
The limited growth / no growth from 1942 to 1960 is strange. Is it due to normal variations over time?
I would think it?s a fair assumtion that there has been a slow increase of the growth from 1960 to 1992 with variations over the years and this actually fits the above theory.

Regards,
Christer

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