Sun rises two days early in Greenland???

Hooter23

Global warming or optical illusion Im not sure if this is for real :rolleyes: but it is interesting

"They are saying that the residents of the third largest city in Greenland are concerned that the sun has risen two days earlier than it usually does. Since they are so far north they greatly anticipate the sun appearing again over the horizon but were expecting it on January 13... not January 11. Scientists are saying that this is because the ice has melted and so they can see the sun more easily over the horizon and other scientists are saying it is an optical illusion due to ice crystals in the air"

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/greenland-whats-going-on?xg_source=activity

Nabber

Global warming is used for everything.

Can't watch nature programmes anymore because they always start the global warming lark. How me farting is killing a snail in the remote reaches of Bolivian drug lords green house.

Carroller16

They got the dates wrong. Today IS January 13th. :-D

Pinnacle

Nabber wrote: »

Global warming is used for everything.

Can't watch nature programmes anymore because they always start the global warming lark. How me farting is killing a snail in the remote reaches of Bolivian drug lords green house.

Your farts are pretty rotten dude

thetonynator

Global warming is used as an excuse for everything . .next thing they'll be saying is that a bit of CO2 in the air is causing the earth to spin faster or something . . .:rolleyes:

Outkast_IRE

its obvious THE NEUTRINOS ARE CHANGING

Cú Giobach

When we see the sun on the horizon it is actually below the horizon.
The light is being refracted by the atmosphere and consequently we can see the refracted image of the sun around the curve of the Earth.
I'm guessing that if there was a small change in the refractive index of the atmosphere due to local climatic conditions then it would allow the sun to peep over the horizon a day or two early, nothing spectacular or strange about that.

mike65

You were watching QI last week That very subject came up only with regard to the setting sun.

Cú Giobach

mike65 wrote: »

You were watching QI last week That very subject came up only with regard to the setting sun.

Ha ha Thats a good show, saw that last week alright.
Though that thing about refraction is one of the little facts I love explaining to people during an evening of telescopic viewing, I was smiling at Phill Jupitus's reaction because often people have said the same to me ie; "Bollocks"

up for anything

This is a situation update on the earlier sunrise in Greenland 'problem'.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=29183

Situation Update No. 1
On 14.01.2011 at 04:22 GMT+2

People in the High Arctic say their 24-hour darkness isn't as dark as it used to be, and a weather researcher says it's because of the warming climate. "We still have a daylight and there's still blue, green, red down there — there's sun sign still," said Zipporah Ootooq Aronsen, who lives in Resolute Bay, Nunavut. "It's not usually like that." People in Resolute Bay now sometimes see a distant island that in the past was only visible during daylight hours. "It never happened like that before," Aronsen said. "Now we can see it once in a while, when it's a clear day." Wayne Davidson, a weather researcher in Resolute Bay, said warmer thermal layers over cold dense polar air cause light to bend and travel farther. "If there's a huge contrast between colder and warmer air, there's longer travel of light from any locations," he said. Inuit have been noticing changes during the dark season for years but the changes are becoming more visible as the climate warms, Davidson said. "It should be usually, around average, –31 degrees," he said. "It was, couple of days ago, –5 or something like that, so it's pretty wild." That refraction of light at the border between cold and warm air is what's allowing people to see farther than normal, Davidson said. "Refraction makes light travel," he said. Jaypetee Akeeagok, who lives in Grise Fiord, Nunavut, said the weather has also been unusually warm there. "You can actually drive Skidoo around town without gloves on," he said. And people in Grise Fiord have also noticed there's more light in winter. "Twenty years ago, we wouldn't even be able to see the whole village, in high noon, which is only nine kilometres, but now we get to see some daylight," Akeeagok said.

Jimmy Garlic

Hooter23 wrote: »

Global warming or optical illusion Im not sure if this is for real :rolleyes: but it is interesting

"They are saying that the residents of the third largest city in Greenland are concerned that the sun has risen two days earlier than it usually does. Since they are so far north they greatly anticipate the sun appearing again over the horizon but were expecting it on January 13... not January 11. Scientists are saying that this is because the ice has melted and so they can see the sun more easily over the horizon and other scientists are saying it is an optical illusion due to ice crystals in the air"

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/greenland-whats-going-on?xg_source=activity

Magnetic pole shift.

thetonynator

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Magnetic pole shift.

I dont think that would have any effect on it . .