You know, this story is a bit old, and long but I think it's important. While it's supposed to be about leadership, there are some interesting clues here.
<a href='http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/rswan.html' target='_blank'>http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/28/rswan.html</a>
Quote:But, proving that even the best-laid plans do indeed go awry, the expedition became a horror story. The temperature rose -- from minus-30 degrees Celsius to minus-5 degrees (from minus-22 degrees Fahrenheit to plus-23 degrees) -- and the ice cap began to melt beneath the explorers' feet. Swan and his team were 700 miles away from land. "It's supposed to melt in August, and this was in April," he says. "Never in recorded Arctic history had the ice cap melted in April. Obviously, that was another sign of environmental change. But at the time, our problem was how to stay alive, because we were beyond rescue of any type."
For 40 hours at a time, the team traveled through constant daylight, often making little headway. Because the ice was so broken up, they could walk for 10 or 15 miles and still have gone north only 100 yards.
So, this guy is telling me that w/ the AIR temperature 5 C degrees
below freezing, the ice was melting? Even w/ the freezing point depression of sea water (about 3 C deg, I looked it up in my CRC) it's still
below freezing, and that's the high temp of the day.
Meanwhile, the ice is melting
below him!
Anyone remember the movie Volcano?
Anne Hecht says: The water temperature has gone up 15 deg since yesterday.
Tommy Lee Jones: Well, it's a sunny day.
Hecht: It takes a geological event to raise the temp of water that much.
SO, what gives here?! I'm not geologist, but if the ice *below* the surface is melting, while the air remains at below freezing temperatures (albeit warmer than average)...doesn't that suggest that something OTHER than environmental change was going on?
Of course people should be concerned, it's just that when you start looking at the facts, things just don't add up to the "global warming" that's being crammed down our throats.
And, I'll add once again, I was at the NASA Earth Science & Tech conference, where one of the office's leaders said that ESTO would do what it takes to make P 3 of the Wash Post, like the Space Sciences office was able to do w/ Hubble pix and more. Basically, she admitted that they'll hype anything, right or wrong, to get publicity.
Ugh.