The Greenland icecap is being monitored worldwide because speedy melting would increase the sealevel. More melting would cause a quicker movement of ice to lower lying warmer areas and to more melting still. The researchers say that this process in the long term does not operate that way.

GPS Measurements

The Utrecht scientists have since the 90′s been measuring the movement of the icecap in West Greenland. It appears that in warmer weather the ice is moving up to 4 times faster because the melted water acts as a lubricant between the ice and the substrate. As a result the ice slides with increased speed to lower and warmer parts of the icecap. It seems that after some period of time larger canals are formed which then allows the off flow of melted water.This in turn causes the water pressure on the bottom to decrease and as a result also the speed of the movement of the sliding ice. In the long term this mechanism of changing speed between the melting of the ice cap and the movement of the ice cap has little or no influence on the level of the sea.

On Monday in the Otago Daily Times a letter to the editor appeared signed by 5 scientists calling themselves a “Significant Group”, who are debunking Prof. Geoff Kearsley’s article on Global Warming and called it “Opinion”. It would appear that these people have expressed their opinion and based on their assessment of themselves, this would point to some kind of prehistoric chest beating. For obvious reasons these people are closing their minds to common observations and to use calculations based on the theories that have been devised, does not make it correct but the insistence of the group that is benefiting from this strange new “science” means they have to besmear the ones that disagree with their calculations. This is the bottomline and does not bode well for the future of co-operation.

Whoa, buddy. Don’t know what to say, except your arguments are woefully behind the conclusions that the scientific community have arrived at, and don’t account for several of the observations that have been made. You may want to get informed, and do some reading.

Kurzweil predicts trends in information technology not the specific applications of that technology. The cars today, if you look at the onboard computer chips, are probably many many times more powerful then those made even 10 years ago (let alone 30).

A “flying car” would be a specific application of technology, which has almost nothing to do with the trends associated with technology. But hey man, maybe one day you’ll have your flying car!

And what are planes by the way, if not big flying cars?

DUDE, where’s my flying car???