Dec 24 1991
From The Space Library
In an article on the Antarctic, Robert Bindschadler, a NASA glaciologist, was quoted as pointing to his photos that marked two huge streams, 30 miles wide, of solid ice. He planned to drive stakes into the ice along a 90-mile line just below the mouth, and return two years later to see how far the stakes moved. By comparing the outflow of ice with measurements of snow accumulation in the interior, scientists can calculate whether the ice sheet is shedding ice. (WSJ, Dec 24/91)
The New York Times printed a feature article concerning the effects of El Nino and of the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo on global climate. Reportedly, most climatologists agreed that the tiny drops of sulfuric acid and water produced by Mount Pinatubo's gaseous cloud would exert a cooling effect on the planet. NASA's James E. Hansen, of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies in New York, attempted to calculate the magnitude of this cooling. Based on a computerized simulation of the global climate, he placed the expected cooling at about 1 degree Fahrenheit-about enough to cancel out, temporarily, the global warming that occurred over the last 100 years. (NY Times, Dec 24/91)
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