Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/29/2010 10:42:01 AM PDT by PROCON
After a false alarm earlier this month, the 2010 Arctic sea ice melt season has come to a close, with sea ice extent reaching the third-lowest in the satellite record. This continues the steady and steep decline in sea ice cover during the past few decades, which scientists have traced mainly to emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as natural climate variability. Underscoring the rapid changes sweeping the Arctic, both the Northwest and Northeast Passages were open for a time, and two sailboats set new records for transiting both of them in just one season — a feat that would have been impossible throughout modern history.
(Excerpt) Read more at climatecentral.org ...
How about WEATHER, you know, natural, cyclic climate?
Ping1
Lies.
LLS
With winter right around the corner.
What a coincidence.
Could just be global warming, due to natural occurring climate cycles. Nothing humans can really do about it, just enjoy the easier access to the far north and better sailing in the Northwest Passage.
Time for a yacht race through the Beaufort Sea and around Ellesmere island. Maybe Churchill MB could become a cruise liner port of call.
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020820southseaice.html
“SATELLITES SHOW OVERALL INCREASES IN ANTARCTIC SEA ICE COVER”
“You can see with this dataset that what is happening in the Antarctic is not what would be expected from a straightforward global warming scenario, but a much more complicated set of events,” said Claire Parkinson of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
I have been trying to tell these people... thank you.
LLS
Great news. Now we can safely get the drilling rigs in place.
Agreed. The last time the earth was as warm as it is today was in 1000 AD, and people were able to transit the Northwest passage then too.
The passage will close back soon enough. In a thousand years another Admundsen will make the passage, and people will start bleating about the evils of man-made climate change all over again.
Surprise: Peer reviewed study says current Arctic sea ice is more extensive than most of the past 9000 years
Inconvenient Ice Study: Less ice in the Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 years ago
We didn't listen!
The little "trick" here that the AGW crowd doesn't want you to know is that they use 1979 as a baseline (the first year large-scale ice extent tracking became available). 1979 just happens to correspond with the end of a natural cooling period and the beginning of a 30-year warming cycle. The trend in the past several years has been ice growth, not shrinkage.
The other thing they don't want people to know is that CO2 is a trace gas which composes a whopping 0.38% of our atmosphere. The human contribution to that number is estimated at 4% (x 0.38% = 0.0015%).
That's why we need Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. as president of the first Global governance.
There was less arctic sea ice in the 1850s:
Amen... if the left states it... it is a lie.
LLS
Amen Andy.
LLS
This is important AS IF:
1. The warming can be proven traceble to human carbon emmissions.
2. That human agriculture as a carbon sink, does not outweigh emmissions.
3. That warming now is unprecedented in magnitude.
4. That a warming period now makes for less severe climate cycles in the future.
5. That less arable land is a good thing.
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