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  The following list includes more than 500 qualified researchers, their home institutions, and the peer-reviewed studies they have published in professional journals providing historic and/or physical proxy evidence that:

  1) Most of the recent global warming has been caused by a long, moderate, natural cycle rather than by the burning of fossil fuels;

  2) The sun’s varying radiance impacts the Earth’s climate as more or fewer cosmic rays create more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that act as the Earth’s thermostats, deflecting more or less solar heat out into space.

  3) Sea levels are not rising rapidly nor are they likely to;

  4) Wild species are not being driven to extinction but rather are increasing the biodiversity of our wildlands;

  5) Fewer human deaths are likely rather than more as the current warming continues, since cold is far more dangerous and the Earth is always warming or cooling;

  6) Food production is likely to thrive during the decades ahead, rather than collapsing due to climate overheating; or dedicated server

  7) Our storms are likely to be fewer and milder as the declining temperature differential between the equator and the poles reduces their power.

  On Do as Heartland says, not as it does posted 5 months ago 1 Response

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  Recent rapid changes at the edges of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets show acceleration of flow and thinning, with the velocity of some glaciers increasing more than twofold. Glacier accelerations causing this imbalance have been related to enhanced surface meltwater production penetrating to the bed to lubricate glacier motion, and to ice-shelf removal, ice-front retreat, and glacier ungrounding that reduce resistance to flow. The present generation of models does not capture these processes. It is unclear whether this imbalance is a short-term natural adjustment or a response to recent climate change, but processes causing accelerations are enabled by warming, so these adjustments will very likely become more frequent in a warmer climate. The regions likely to experience future rapid changes in ice volume are those where ice is grounded well below sea level such as the West Antarctic Ice Sheet or large glaciers in Greenland like the Jakobshavn Isbrae that flow into the sea through a deep channel reaching far web design inland. Inclusion of these processes in models will likely lead to sea-level projections for the end of the 21st century that substantially exceed the projections presented in the IPCC AR4 report (0.28 ± 0.10 m to 0.42 ± 0.16 m rise).

  On Greenland ice sheet could raise East Coast sea levels 20 inches by 2100 - to over 6 feet posted 5 months ago 4 Responses