[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

[Daniel Rose]

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> From: link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Howard Lowndes
> Posted At: Monday, 5 February 2007 16:46 PM
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> Conversation: [LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
> 
> Richard Archer wrote:
> > At 2:50 PM +1100 5/2/07, Stewart Fist wrote:
> > 
> >> And remember that the loss of floating ice makes no 
> difference to sea 
> >> levels
> > 
> > That's also in dispute:
> > http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050801_floatingice.html
> 
> Certainly this is true for glacial ice, as demonstrated, but 
> most of the northern ice cap is frozen sea water which will 
> not demonstrate the same effect.
> 

In any case, there is a significant amount of land-based ice in
Greenland, Alaska and Siberia, and as someone else observed, thermal
expansion of the oceans is also a significant factor.

Australia is a semi-arid area, when taken as a whole:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/rain.shtml

Rainfall in the cities (these are 30 averages I think)
http://www.connectedwater.gov.au/framework/water_availability.html