Posted on 01/06/2015 7:02:36 PM PST by Coleus
Despite dire predictions that the North Pole would be ice-free in the near future, Arctic Sea ice levels have been more stable than scientists predicted. So far this winter, Arctic Sea ice levels are above where they were at the same time last winter and are well within the the standard deviation of the 1981 to 2010 variation, according to daily sea ice data.
Europe’s CryoSat-2 satellite found that sea-ice volumes for the fall of 2014 were above the average extent for the last five years. Sea-ice levels were up sharply from 2011 and 2012, according to the satellite– only slightly lower than 2013 levels. In 2013, CryoSat-2 found that Arctic sea ice levels increased 50 percent at the end of the region’s melting season. Arctic sea-ice coverage reached 2,100 cubic miles by that time, up from 1,400 cubic miles during the same time in 2012.
“The Antarctic is actually growing and all the evidence in the last few months suggests many assumptions about the poles was wrong,” Dr. Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum, told the U.K. Express. “Global sea ice is at a record high, another key indicator that something is working in the opposite direction of what was predicted,” Peiser said. “Most people think the poles are melting… they’re not. This is a huge inconvenience that reality is now catching up with climate alarmists, who were predicting that the poles would be melting fairly soon.”
It was not too long ago that climate scientists and environmental activists were predicting the Arctic would be ice-free by now. Former Vice President Al Gore famously claimed in 2008 that the North Pole would be completely ice-free by 2013– a prediction that has been proven wildly inaccurate. “Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years,” Gore said in 2008.
Gore echoed a 2007 claim made by climate scientist Wieslaw Maslowski, who said that “you can argue that maybe our projection of [an ice-free Arctic by 2013] is already too conservative.” But even as the Arctic defies predictions of its demise, U.S. officials are still saying the region could be ice-free in the next couple of years. Environmentalists at the Center for Biological Diversity warned the Arctic could be ice-free as soon as 2012. It wasn’t. Now, the group says that “climate scientists say the Arctic could be completely ice-free in the summer by the 2030s.”
Scientists also argue that future global temperature rises will continue to shrink the Arctic until it is ice-free, maybe even in our lifetimes. “We have not seen an ice free period in the Arctic Ocean for 2.6 million years,” said Jochen Knies a marine geologist with the Geological Survey of Norway who recently authored a study on the issue. “However, we may see it in our lifetime.” Follow Michael on Twitter
When exactly did Al Gore predict that arctic sea ice would be a whole lot more stable than scientists?
It would be worth noting this one accurate prediction on the part of Gore.
It’s Algore and his “scientists” that are unstable.
See: I told you Global Warming was real.
You can apologize now. :)
Climate change is cargo-cult science.
I write this reply to you from McMurdo Station on the Ross Island in Antarctica. I have been flying missions here for this my 17th season of Operation Deep Freeze. In all of the science they do down here climate it a big one but they have clearly admitted in their findings that they really do not have enough data points at all to make such charges as to human caused global warming. They know this. Even the ice cores that I fly from the interior to the station can not give them what they want especially when the sea ice increases the way it did this year and the last few AGAINST forecasts that only a very few foolishly make.
The truth is this. There is this thing called the sun and our planet is 4/5ths water covered...the action of the two alone constitute over 90% of our thermal layer when combined with Ozone and other atmospheric gases...The liars of the liberal religion want you to believe that man’s influence on the other 10 is somehow greater than 90% and that Volcanos do nothing and sun spots do nothing.
I enjoy watching them flail about in illogical hyper-jump-to-liberal-only conclusions...shows them for the activists they really are.
Could you imagine if we had a real Congress that believed in freedom, or an administration that believed in truth, or a judiciary that believed in Honesty, ALL of these people would have been tried, convicted and executed already for this FRAUD.
bump
Hysteresis is a bitch.
Don’t let the global warmist zealots read this. They’ll have a meltdown. (pun intended)
i wouldn’t want to put you out of a job or anything but could you fly congress down there to check it out and just forget where to fly back and pick em up? alto hiemers?
Sometimes I wonder if Al Gore really is a credible source of scientific information.
BRILLIANT! Had to fly McCain once and flew that morally bankrupt Carol Mosley Braun when se was (caugh caugh ) ambassador to New Zealand. Oh the temptation you suggest!
On another note, year before last I got to fly the Prime Minister for New Zealand, John Key, awesome man. He and his wife were aboard. My only head of state flight in my career.
More better.
Sounds like an exiting job!
Is it just me but the fact that the ice at the poles is increasing doesn't comfort me. Ice ages anyone?
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I loved NZ. when i was there they had just privatized everything. Everyone bragged about how much better things where. Funny but on the flight back from queenstown there were some friends of “W” on the plane. I think their daughter worked for him. I don’t know but i thot it was that Wendy woman early on.
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