Posted on 03/22/2018 10:13:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Human-caused warming is popping the frozen corks that normally bottle up thick sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, allowing it to pour south.
Ships plying the North Atlantic Ocean in spring are facing increased hazards from floating Arctic sea ice as a result of human-caused global warming.
That might seem counterintuitive, but here’s what’s happening, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:
Warming temperatures are causing ice that normally blocks narrow ocean passages in winter and spring to break up earlier than in the past. Like a cork removed from a champagne bottle, the early break up in these passages is allowing thick, old sea ice to flow south from the Arctic Ocean into the North Atlantic, choking areas used by fishing, shipping and ferry boats.
“Heavy ice conditions along Canada’s east coast during spring 2017 presented hazardous conditions for the maritime industry at a time of year when vessels typically do not need to contend with sea ice,” the researchers note in their paper.
“It’s counterintuitive to most people, because it means you can have an increase in local ice hazards because of a changing climate in the high Arctic,” says the University of Manitoba’s David Barber, lead author of the study, quoted in a release from the American Geophysical Union.
“This is something we need to better prepare for in the future, because we expect this phenomenon to go on for at least a couple more decades as we transition to an ice-free Arctic in the summer.”
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Counter intuitive. A different word for bullshit.
too much ice = global warming
LOL. More global warming stuff.
Discover Magazine gave up its last shred of respectability and scientific integrity years ago. It’s become nothing but a propaganda outlet for the climate/industrial complex.
Liberals appear to be constantly confused by Mother Nature.
-Right after the Autumnal Equinox, liberals spout “Coming Ice Age!!!”
-Right after the Vernal Equinox, liberals spout “Global Warming!!!”
Just wait, it won’t be long until liberals demand Gov’t funding for more light during winter.
LOL, talk about “counterintuitive impact of global warming”...how about researchers trying to confirm global warming getting stranded by increasing ice levels?
As summer approaches, fears of global warming are on the rise.
Here is what John Kerry said back in 2009:
"It is already upon us and its effects are being felt worldwide, right now," he wrote. "Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now. Make no mistake: catastrophic climate change represents a threat to human security, global stability, and — yes — even to American national security."
Geez. Is it going to be a minus five years to an Ice Free Arctic, or is going to be a few more decades?
I hope no one is so crass as to mention that the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on April 14th in 1912 which happens to be " Early Spring"
Science uses the scientific method.
Climate “science” does not use the scientific method.
Climate “science” uses anecdotal evidence.
Anecdotal evidence is not science.
Any questions?
CORROLARY: Hot weather is climate, cold weather is just weather.
This is why I don’t trust their computer models...
They can’t even predict a storm 3 days out and we are supposed to believe what will happen 100 years from now?
Link: http://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2018/03/this-is-why-i-dont-trust-their-computer.html
“Ships plying the North Atlantic Ocean in spring are facing increased hazards from floating Arctic sea ice as a result of human-caused global warming.”
Manmade global warming is science... political science. And it is a lie at that.
The more dangerous “human-caused” phenomenon to be wary of is the tyrannical leftists and their “green” agenda.
wow who is that?
Liberals are insane.
My grandson sold me a subscription to Popular Science for a school project. Never before have I read such a collection of bullshit, Marxist propaganda, and bald-faced lies. Now when I get an issue I simply toss it into the fireplace kindling box.
“are facing increased hazards from floating Arctic sea ice as a result of human-caused global warming”
Sorry that’s sank!
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