Study: Advancing glaciers in New Zealand are a sign of ‘regional cooling’ Joi, feb. 16 2017 

In incalzirea globara ghetarii Noii Zeelane cresc (de 20 de ani) datorita… racirii regionale!!! 😇😇😇😇

Watts Up With That?

Franz Josef glacier, which grew almost continuously in the 25 years to 2008 Franz Josef glacier, which grew almost continuously in the 25 years to 2008

Reader Phil Hutchings writes via email:

This article in Nature Communications caught my eye! 

This is a beauty. This week, Nature Communications published an explanation as to why (at least) 58 New Zealand glaciers grew in the twenty-five years to 2008.

The aberrant behaviour by these naughty glaciers was perfectly explicable though – it was caused by „regional cooling”.

Researchers from NZ’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and Victoria University prepared, yes, a model of the Southern Alps. And yes, they found that in their model, lower air and adjacent ocean temperatures (during those 25 years) were correlated with the growing glaciers.

Fair enough.

But where is the support for this claim ?

„While this sequence of climate variability and its effect on New Zealand glaciers is unusual on a global scale, it remains consistent…

Vezi articolul original 46 de cuvinte mai mult

Evolutie demografica Miercuri, feb. 15 2017 

 

Recorduri demografice istorice în 2016: Cel mai mic număr de născuți-vii de după 1876 și cel mai mare spor negativ din istorie