Greenland rising rapidly as ice melts

It means the potential for faster sea level rise, though I don't recall Al Gore being mentioned anywhere in the article or this thread. Some of you sock puppets need to change the record. Oh, and it's NOBEL.

"We've already passed the tipping point on glacier melt."
So if that's true (and it isn't) then why do we read headlines like this:

24 Jan 10 - "The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning
UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted
it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders."

Surely if things are as bad as you say then there will be no need to hype the headlines, reality will speak for itself. The problem is real-world evidence doesn't match up to what the alarmists' tell us is happening.

Hindu Kush and the Karakoram glaciers in the Himalayas are "thickening and expanding", so not all glaciers are shrinking - far from it. And now you'll hit me with a list of Al Gore approved websites which show that there are countless glaciers that are melting at "alarming" or "unprecedented" rates. So would you also be able to prove that all glacier melt was due to increasing temperatures? Probably not:
The Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia has been receding even though temperatures in that area are falling at around -0.2ºC/decade. Why do you think that could be?

I always find it amusing how we read stories of Arctic ice melt at this time of year, when Arctic ice is melting. You must have been so happy in the winter when Arctic ice was building up, reaching higher levels than previous years. But I doubt it, nothing seems to make you happy - life has to be full of doom and gloom, there has to be a catastrophe waiting in the wings, and it has to be man's fault - has to be!

Ola Johannessen at the Mohn Sverdrup center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography in Norway found that the ice in Greenland was thickening at a rate of 1.9 inches a year, and we're now seeing Arctic ice extent and thickness increasing again. Slightly at odds with this article, then, but instead of looking into the research with an open mind, most people here will instantly dismiss anything that goes against the 'global warming' mantra, and that is nothing to be proud of.

Because there is more to the world than what you CHOOSE to cherrypick and twist for your own agenda. And that "ice" in the Arctic was in the Bering Strait and already explained by NSIDC (not an "Al Gore site" for your information) as being due to weather in that area alone, with ice continuing to melt elsewhere in the Arctic. How convenient of you once again to cherrypick. So look, I already KNOW what YOU are all about here and how ignorant you really are on this topic without your talking points, so excuse me if I come in this thread now to actually respond to people who discuss this based on ALL of the facts and the REAL scientists' cliams, not denialist politically motivated cherrypicked analyses and BS from paid off oil shill weathermen.

http://current.com/technology/92357835_arctic-sea-ice-news-from-the-nsidc-not-a-...

You didn't have to insult "JanforGore" with your comment. "But I doubt it, nothing seems to make you happy - life has to be full of doom and gloom, there has to be a catastrophe waiting in the wings, and it has to be man's fault - has to be!" Don't act like you know people. Also with the "Al Gore" site comment. And I'm pretty much nuetral on this by the way. I understand both sides of the argument, but I don't think it's something worth arguing over - there's bigger problems out there.

Amen. This is real. We must prepare as a species for what is to come.

"If current trends continue, that could accelerate to as much as 2 inches per year"

Could accelerate? Hardly scientific eh? Glacial rebound has been occurring at varying rates for centuries, this is nothing new.
"Even more surprising, the rise seems to be accelerating, implying that melting is accelerating."

Seems to be accelerating? Again, hardly scientific. Glacial rebound doesn't just suddenly spring to life, it happens over centuries. So we're supposed to be scared by this? Why, because sea levels will rise faster and swamp islands and coastal areas? But sea level rises have decelerated over the past few years, not accelerated (currently in the region of 1.5 mm/yr).
The fact that sea levels have risen over the past 6000 years is not a cause for concern. At one time I could have walked to France (actually I'm not that old) but now there's a rather big sea in my way. The south of England is sinking while Scotland is experiencing the same glacial rebound as Greenland. Things change, sometimes slowly, sometimes relatively rapidly (in geological terms).
Humans have to adapt to these changes, not just now but also in the centuries to come, because at some point way past our lifetimes there's going to be another ice age. You can bet your bottom $ (or £ in my case) that they won't be taxing CO2 production at that point.

"Hardly scientific eh?"

Sort of reminds me of you. Perhaps you should look into how the scientists make these predictions. That way, you wouldn't be compelled to say such stupid things and come off as an idiot.