Global Warming/Climate Control = World Government

The global warming crowd, those that couldn't find anything to do after the old Soviet Union went down have now found a home here, believe that if they don't make this work for them soon, all will be lost.

One of the leaders at the UN said it really wasn't about the earth warming, it's about forming a world government to control events that are going out of control. After all, what better place to control world events then from the UN - Oh wait, who's in control of the UN, tyrants and mass killers? Who knew?

The UN control of all aspects of the United States. What a great idea.


The Current Wisdom
Source: Patrick J. Michaels, "The Current Wisdom," Cato-at-Liberty.org, December 13, 2010.

This year's installment of the United Nations' annual climate summit has come and gone in Cancun. Nothing substantial came of it policywise; just the usual attempts by the developing world to shake down our already shaky economy in the name of climate change, says Patrick J. Michaels, a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute.

And, of course, no one bothered to mention a blockbuster paper appearing in Nature the day before the end of the Cancun confab, which reassures us that Greenland's ice cap and glaciers are a lot more stable than alarmists would have us believe.

The disaster scenario goes like this:
Summer temperatures in Greenland are warming, leading to increased melting and the formation of ephemeral lakes on the ice surface. This water eventually finds a crevasse and then a way down thousands of feet to the bottom of a glacier, where it lubricates the underlying surface, accelerating the seaward march of the ice. Increase the temperature even more and massive amounts deposit into the ocean by the year 2100, catastrophically raising sea levels.

According to Christian Schoof of the University of British Columbia (UBC), "The conventional view has been that meltwater permeates the ice from the surface and pools under the base of the ice sheet....This water then serves as a lubricant between the glacier and the earth underneath it...." And, according to Schoof, that's just not the way things work. A UBC press release about his Nature article noted that he found that "a steady meltwater supply from gradual warming may in fact slow down the glacier flow, while sudden water input could cause glaciers to speed up and spread."

Indeed, Schoof finds that sudden water inputs, such as would occur with heavy rain, are responsible for glacial accelerations, but these last only one or a few days.
The bottom line? A warming climate has very little to do with accelerating ice flow, but weather events do, says Michaels.