U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds

(CNN) -- The complete melting of a major section of west Antarctica's ice sheet appears inevitable, and the process could lead to higher end-of-century global sea levels than previously anticipated, researchers said Monday.

Just in case no one has linked this yet....

Ice melt in part of Antarctica 'appears unstoppable,' NASA says

It's comical but also really f*cking scary how accurate that is. You have an entire science "field" based on the support of a single theory. No wonder why everyone in that field "supports" that theory.

Just in case no one has linked this yet....

Ice melt in part of Antarctica 'appears unstoppable,' NASA says

Show me proof that it's accurate.

The mere existence of that coincidence should justify anyone's skepticism.

As for proof, how about co2 levels are at record levels and temps have remained flat for 15 years.

Except possibly for the lowest-melt scenario, the simulations indicate that early-stage collapse has begun. Less certain is the time scale, with the onset of rapid (>1 mm per year of sea-level rise) collapse in the different simulations within the range of 200 to 900 years.

Collapse in the imagination of most people sounds like a catastrophic event that is going to happen in the next few years. We are talking about a retreat that is unstoppable because we think we have enough evidence to say that these glaciers will keep retreating for decades and even centuries to come…. We’re talking about a slow degradation of ice in this part of Antarctica.

Dr. Richard Tol writes about a new revelation coming from an analysis of Cook’s climate publications volunteer raters, conducted by Brandon Shollenberger:

My comment on Cook’s consensus paper has at last been accepted. It was rejected by three journals — twice by Environmental Research Letters and once by two other journals for being out of scope. Fifth time lucky.

As these things go, my comment is out of date before it is published.

One of my main concerns was the partial release of data. The data that was available suggests that all sorts of weird things were going on, but without the full data it was hard to pinpoint what went on. Cook’s resistance to release the data, abetted by the editor, the publisher and the University of Queensland, suggested that he may have something to hide.

Brandon Shollenberger has now found part of the missing data.

Unfortunately, time stamps are still missing. These would allow us to check whether fatigue may have affected the raters, and whether all raters were indeed human.

Rater IDs are available now. I hope Shollenberger will release the data in good time. For now, we have to do with his tests and graphs.

His comment of May 10, 1:16 am shows that individual raters systematically differed in their assessment of the literature. This is illustrated by this figure; the circles are aligned if the raters are the same.

This undermines Cook’s paper. Theirs was not a survey of the literature. Rather, it was a survey of the raters.

There were only 12 raters (24 at first, but half dropped out), picked for their belief in the cause.

Now for what you won't read in the news.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/12/antarctic-sea-ice-at-record-levels/

East Antarctic sea ice at record levels.

Guys what we are witnessing is the slow changing of the earth's climate and ice distribution. This happens all the time, it just happens in geological time. The only difference is this time humans have the technology to actually measure and record it instead of just painting on cave walls.

Shhhh. Don't tell them that. It will hurt their corporate profits for scaremongering.

Since when are you against corporate profits? Orrrrrr is this just not your brand of fear mongering?

If anyone's being bought it's the "Climate Change" crowd.

But they can't be bought, remember? They are liberals, and above humanity.

Just give em carbon credits.

This is moronic. If anthropogenic global warming theory is so readily disprovable,
then post something that disproves it.
No idiotic cartoons. No strawmen. Post actual *** science.

If you're still waiting on conclusive evidence, it is not because there is a lack of any. It is because you're intentionally ignoring it.

This is moronic. If anthropogenic global warming theory is so readily disprovable,
then post something that disproves it.
No idiotic cartoons. No strawmen. Post actual *** science.

If you're still waiting on conclusive evidence, it is not because there is a lack of any. It is because you're intentionally ignoring it.

You have to prove god doesn't exist in order to do that.

In the 2 groups uncertain about receiving intercessory prayer, complications occurred in 52% (315/604) of patients who received intercessory prayer versus 51% (304/597) of those who did not (relative risk 1.02, 95% CI 0.92-1.15). Complications occurred in 59% (352/601) of patients certain of receiving intercessory prayer compared with the 52% (315/604) of those uncertain of receiving intercessory prayer (relative risk 1.14, 95% CI 1.02-1.28)

Well, I don't know about god, but it's pretty evident that prayer doesn't do much other than make matters worst.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569567

Maybe you guys are praying to the wrong god and he's getting mad?

Gasp, maybe it's not AGW but GGW?

You have to prove god doesn't exist in order to do that.

I don't want to jump to the conclusion that you might be stupid, so I'll ask you if you are just trying to provoke..

I don't want to jump to the conclusion that you might be stupid, so I'll ask you if you are just trying to provoke..