Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Regarding the question of ice formations affecting the sea level, organizations such as Greenpeace originally predicted that floating ice in the Arctic’s Bering Sea would melt away, causing “a catastrophic inundation by rapidly rising oceans.” But that is easily disproved. Indeed, even the Climate Changers agree that melting floating ice will not cause a sea level rise—besides which, it obviously didn’t happen.

But since the floating ice theory doesn’t float, now it seems that the offending ice is that which is land based. It will melt and run into the ocean, causing—again—a catastrophic inundation by rapidly rising oceans. A paper by Twila Moon, Ian Joughin, Ben Smith and Ian Howat titled “21st Century Evolution of Greenland Outlet Glacier Velocities” reports that “Earlier research … estimate(d) upper bounds of .8 to 2.0 meters for 21st-century sea level rise. In Greenland, this work assumed ice-sheet-wide doubling of glacier speeds (low-end scenario) or an order of magnitude increase in speeds (high-end scenario) from 2000 to 2010. Our wide sampling of actual 2000 to 2010 changes shows that glacier acceleration across the ice sheet remains far below these estimates, suggesting that sea level rise associated with Greenland glacier dynamics remains well below the low-end scenario (9.3 centimeters by 2010).” Wow—Well below 3.66 inches by the end of this century.

This is based on the assumption that the melting ice ends up in the ocean. Other scientists conclude that a look at the topography of Greenland shows that if much of the land-based ice should melt, the greatest result would be a big lake.

I have no doubt but that the preponderant number of Climate Changers are genuinely concerned for man’s wellbeing. It is the power hungry who purposely use unscientific scenarios as the rationale to impose their green initiatives in order to justify the expenditure of billions of dollars and reduce our standard of living to a third-world nation.

With so much at stake, it behooves us to do our homework and learn the truth. One source for research would be http://ccmp.webnode.com/

Sue Long
North, Va