Posted on 10/21/2015 1:22:18 PM PDT by PROCON
To see the Arctic death spiral firsthand, and to see the Arctic before it melted, I took a 17-day “adventure cruise” and learned an inconvenient truth: We can’t make it stop.
At the top of the world, a great wheel is spinning. Circling the Arctic Ocean, a current called the Beaufort Gyre drives pack ice clockwise around the pole. It pulls warm Pacific currents through the Bering Strait north and west above Siberia, pushes into the East Siberian Sea and the Transpolar Drift, then rolls away from Russia and whips south against Greenland and the archipelagic frontier forming the rocky distant rim of the Canadian Shield. As winter descends and the seas freeze, the gyre drives newly formed ice against the landfast floe edging those northmost coasts, thickening the ice in ridges and layers, and bit by bit forces drift ice into the straits that form the Northwest Passage. As winter thaws to summer, the pack ice breaks up into the Chukchi Sea, where warm Pacific waters join the gyre as it turns again in its grinding cycle.
The pack ice that the gyre drives around the top of the world breathes with the seasons, expanding in winter, contracting in summer. Over the past 30 years, though, the total amount has shrunk: Minimum summer sea-ice area has decreased by more than half, as has estimated summer sea-ice thickness. Even more alarming, total summer sea-ice volume is less than a quarter of what it was a generation ago.
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The author of this piece is making me re-consider my position on assisted suicide. Nobody this miserable and despondent should be forced to live another day on this earth against their will.
That poor polar bear is going to drown because everyone knows polar bears can’t swim.
ROTFLMAO, thanks, you made my day!
At the same time the total Arctic ice has been decreasing, the total Antarctic ice has undergone an even greater increase, leaving a net gain in the Earth’s ice packs.
Let me guess Roy, your cruise happened during the Arctic summer? My God these people are stupid.
They go up every SUMMER, see less ice and come back writing tales of wow WITH PICTURES!!!
3 months later we read, often on page d 48 that Putin sent 14 nuke icebreakers to make a last ditch effort to clear shipping routs after the worst freeze in recorded history due to POLAR VORTEX!!!
History begins for a liberal every morning they awake.
Embrace Existential Cage Theory.
We can all go back to smoking baby backs and not feel guilty** about the huge carbon foot print of doing so!
**(Not that I ever let the stop me)
DOOMAGE! Ping!
Either kill yourself....
Or put the white bear out of it's "misery"....
Tales of wow? This is hugh! Series too!
And mosses bite their sisters! ;)
A couple years back, they chartered a ship to take them to Antarctica during the summer so they could "prove global warming."
Well stop me if you've heard this before, but their ship proceeded to get STUCK in ice. Eventually icebreakers had to be sent in to get them out.
Yup I remember but I won’t stop you. It’s good to relive happy memories ;)
Libtard spin is that there are only 50,000 polar bears left.
Conservaitve truth also reports contect in that the polar bears numbers have increased dramatically te last 50 years despite “global warming” that has ben faked by data molestors.
Norm's Existential Cage TheoryTM
As long as people embrace the theory I don’t really care about the credit to be honest. I figure there will ‘be’ a future that would not otherwise be there for people to look back from and find the source ;)
Except for the fact that it's not.
Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph National Snow and Ice Data Center
Perfect description.
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