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World Meteorological Organization and NOAA: 2000-2009 is the Hottest Decade on Record

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Bagua12/08/2009 1:40:31 pm PST

re: #36 Sharmuta

How do we know the original wasn’t a typo?

Variations of Snow and Ice in the past and at present on a Global and Regional Scale

The degradation of the extrapolar glaciation of the Earth will be apparent in rising ocean level already by the year 2050, and there will be a drastic rise of the ocean thereafter caused by the deglaciation-derived runoff (see Table 11 ). This period will last from 200 to 300 years. The extrapolar glaciation of the Earth will be decaying at rapid, catastrophic rates—
its total area will shrink from 500,000 to 100,000 km by the year 2350. Glaciers will survive only in the mountains of inner Alaska, on some Arctic archipelagos, within Patagonian ice sheets, in the Karakoram Mountains, in the Himalayas, in some regions of Tibet and on the highest mountain peaks in the temperature latitudes.

That is the source paper, the IPCC made the initial mistake, and now the WWF and Time magazine are parroting it.