Monday, February 05, 2007

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Same as before. Lower elevations seeing above freezing temperatures while the higher elevations are freezing. Given that, what will happen when the melt off of Antarctica at lower elevations occurs without the abatement of Human Induced Global Warming and the Blue Ice is exposed to the tropospheric temperatures. Will it benignly 'melt down' into melt water and gently run off, or will it crash into the oceans causing tsunamis globally? Do we really want to find out? In this satellite it is completely obvious WAIS is taking most of the heat and never is without above zero temperatures.

The highest humidity is at King Sejong, Antarctica at 99% where the temperatures is 2 degrees above freezing on the Celcius scale. The lowest temperatures are at Dome C, Antarctica at -42 C and at Vostok where it is -38 C with a humidity of 37%.

Here again there is a phenomina one would not expect in that the majority of WAIS in the southern hemisphere during summer and Glacier Bay in the northern hemisphere during winter are both temperate and melting.