Posted on 05/06/2015 4:34:47 PM PDT by Crazieman
Climate scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are warning the Arctic may be ice free by the summer by 2040 due to global warming.
Scientists sounded the alarm on a Wednesday press call that comes after the north pole hit record low winter sea ice coverage in February. NOAA’s warning of an ice-free Arctic are consistent with warnings given by other researchers over the past few years.
Scientists warned that Arctic ice will melt faster as temperatures grow hotter, which they warn is harming the region’s ecology — zooplankton are losing fat content which could harm fish in the area that feed on these organisms.
Sounds alarming, but is an ice-free Arctic really something to worry about?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Good. Give the Vikings a chance to recolonize GREENLAND.
That’s their story and they’re stuck with it....
It is, of course, possible the prediction will be right, but for the wrong reason.
The main actual data supporting the global warming hysteria has come from the warming of the Arctic — the fact that the Antarctic cooled in the same period has always been one of the main challenges to the notion of global warming, just as the lack of the “signature” of greenhouse-gas warming — a hot spot in the upper troposphere over the tropics, predicted by all greenhouse-gas warming models — has stood as a falsification of the notion that human greenhouse gas emission are causing “global warming”.
There is a good theory that does explain Arctic warming without global warming, and interestingly it has an anthropogenic cause: soot deposited on the Arctic by Chinese and Russian coal-fired power plants decreasing the albedo of the Arctic ice cap — nothing analogous is happening in the southern hemisphere, and solar causes don’t adequately explain the North-South asymmetry (Svensmark has an argument why the modulation of cloud formation by cosmic radiation should be less pronounced over the desert of Antarctica than over the Arctic Ocean, but this effect isn’t strong enough to account for the difference observed). This is ignored because getting the Duma and ChiCom central committee to pass analogues of the Clean Air Act don’t aggregate power to the U.N., E.U. or U.S. Federal government.
“There is nothing more that I hate than a skinny zooplankton”. Sort of the “Twiggies” of the ocean.
“Of course they know their predictions are not only a joke, but false as well. These slime bags are socialists/communists, and to them, all lies and propaganda, as long as it further the cause of communism, is good, moral and just.”
That’s true of these corrupt government scientists. And that is also true of EVERY single reporter, anchor, editor etc. working for any news media outlet
The best thing about 25 years from now is that its always 25 years away.
That is a real load of Double A, USDA, Grade 1 Bull Shit! Please save that load for the school kids to go with there wonderful lunch’s from Ms. O.
"Negotiating an underwater tunnel [beneath the ice] to gain the island's interior, those aboard U-33 are amazed to discover a tropical prehistoric world kept warm by volcanic forces.
Here dinosaurs that should be long extinct live and roam, as do a curious race of humanoid savages that appear to exhibit all the various phases of Man's evolutionary development. To survive long enough to repair and replenish the U-boat, wartime enemies must put aside their differences and cooperate with one another. But not everyone is playing from the Kumbaya songbook...
http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/land_time_forgot.htm
“Climate scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are warning the Arctic may be ice free by the summer by 2040 due to global warming.”
May...MAY???
I may turn into a walrus next week if I keep eating fish.
MAY???
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production– with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self- sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."
A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.
To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."
Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.
"The world's food-producing system," warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA's Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, "is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago." Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
The Cooling World:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
Original Newsweek article with scary maps and graphs:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
“There is nothing more that I hate than a skinny zooplankton”. Sort of the “Twiggies” of the ocean.
These guys work for the same government that told us for 40+ years that eggs and butter were bad for us then, earlier this year, pulled an Emily Litella.
They have predicted the Arctic would be ice free in 1923, 1947, 1978-2004, 2000, 2013 and 2014. Every single prediction has been falsified. Now they say by 2040. At least they are learning to put their pie in the sky predictions out so many years that people may forget. When will the leftist statist learn the trait of humility and realize they have no clue. Sea ice in the arctic has recovered and is as thick right now as it was 75 years ago according to Goddard.
Great news! This should open up the Arctic to tourism and development!
Government and the news media tell us everything is bad for us , will kills us , and destroy the world (everything is made with oil so everything will destroy the world
Actually the only things really bad for us are the news media and government(Those are the only things that have made my life harder as I bought into their lies and only recently broke out of their programming
Government and the news media tell us everything is bad for us , will kill us , and destroy the world (everything is made with oil so everything will destroy the world
Actually the only things really bad for us are the news media and government(Government and the news media are the only things that have harmed me and made my life harder as I bought into their lies and I only recently broke out of their mind programming
In 2007, Al Gore thought we’d be ice free by 2014. They’ve got more ice now than they did in 2007. Guess he’s going to have to find another cow to milk now...
“What a joke Noaa really is.” NOAA used to do science; now, they do political science because of their political masters.
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