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http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl General Discussion >> Thinking Globally >> !! Southern Alps Total Ice volume, '76-'14 http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1406696277 Message started by The Stunt-free Horse on Jul 30^th, 2014 at 2:57pm

Title: !! Southern Alps Total Ice volume, '76-'14
Post by The Stunt-free Horse on Jul 30^th, 2014 at 2:57pm

Title: Re: !! Southern Alps Total Ice volume, '76-'14
Post by The Stunt-free Horse on Jul 30^th, 2014 at 2:59pm

'A glacier is simply the surplus ice that collects above the permanent snowline where the losses to summer melting are less than the gains from winter accumulation. A glacier flows downhill and crosses the permanent snowline from the area of snow gain to the zone of ice loss. The altitude of this permanent snowline is the equilibrium line: it marks the altitude at which snow gain (accumulation) is exactly balanced by melt (ablation) and is represented by the end-of-summer snowline.'

source; http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/822723-new-zealands-southern-alps-have-lost-a-third-of-their-ice/

Title: Re: !! Southern Alps Total Ice volume, '76-'14
Post by The Stunt-free Horse on Jul 30^th, 2014 at 3:07pm

NB- nothing grows exponentially

- synergistic systems don't decay, they collapse

:-X

Title: Re: !! Southern Alps Total Ice volume, '76-'14
Post by The Stunt-free Horse on Jul 30^th, 2014 at 3:16pm

lastly, i offer a possible get-out-of-jail-free-card( :-? :-?):

- STATISTICS WERE INVENTED PRECISELY BECAUSE GRAPHOLOGY IS WELL UNDERSTOOD TO BE EASILY MISINTERPRETED

Title: Re: !! Southern Alps Total Ice volume, '76-'14
Post by The Stunt-free Horse on Jul 31^st, 2014 at 10:58am

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