Originally posted by DA Morgan:
dehammer wrote:
"see, this right here is the total problem.
glacers expand and contract all the time."
No it is not. Your argument is equivalent to saying some days are warmer than others. Well to quote Bart Simpson: Duh!
Climatologists are not so incompetent as to not understand and appreciate normal cycles. What is happening now is not normal.
so how are they taking into account that some years are colder than others and some are hotter than others, when they dont have the data for more than a small number of years.
appearantly it has happen several times in the past, so what is so unnormal about it.
what they are basically saying is that in the hottest year they have the data on, more of it melted than other years.
your arguement is the same as going out on a hot winter day and seeing that a lot of ice had melted off, then proclaiming that it was summer.
