Posted on 12/12/2007 9:39:24 AM PST by america4vr
The record melting of Arctic sea ice observed this summer and fall led to record-low levels of ice in both September and October, but a record-setting pace of re-freezing in November, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day for 10 days in late October and early November, a new record.
Still, the extent of sea ice recorded in November was well shy of the median extent observed over the past quarter century, as the image from Nov. 14 (above, right) shows. The dramatic increase in ice is evident, when compared to the record-low amount observed Sept. 16 (below, right). In both images, 100% sea ice is shown in white, and the yellow line encompasses the area ion which there was at least 15% ice cover in at least half of the 25-year record for the given month.
The record melting of Arctic sea ice this summer was widely viewed as a harbinger of global warming, though unusual wind patterns played a role and many factors affecting fluctuations in Arctic ice are poorly understood by scientists. The area of persistent open water north of Alaska and eastern Siberia, according to NASA, is unusual for this time of year, though not unprecedented. This area was also largely free of ice in November 2002 and especially November 2006.
Here's how NASA explains the record re-growth of ice over that 10-day period in October and November:
Record sea ice growth rates after a record low may sound surprising at first, but it is not completely unexpected. The more ice that survives the summer melt, the less open water there is for new ice to grow.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailygreen.com ...
Gee, I thought global warming was supposed to occur in neat, regular increments, easy to measure and understand by methodical humans. Now it’s gone and decided to act like nature.
One equation with two unknowns (temperature forcings, system sensitivity).
W(,) new!
The best solution is for ALARMISTS TO BUY FUEL FOR NON-BELIEVERS.
RE: TIROS-1 image ....
Just after I posted I noticed the view is down under.
I make the cyclone halfway between Tristan de Cunha & South Georgia I.
The image is from WIKKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIROS-1
and they sourced it from NOAA http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/spac0102.htm
Thanks for the reply,
skeptoid
For later tonight.
Too early to do that. They haven't taxed the snot out of us yet....
Result....a mini ice age in Europe.
So all those solar cells won't work and the corn will refuse to grow....I guess we will just have to drill ANWAR.
http://www.bigpond.com/news/technology/content/20071213/2117735.asp
Arctic ice melt worse than predicted: scientists
By Barbara Miller
December 13, 2007 - 11:22AM
Source: ABC
“...When he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize earlier this week, former US vice-president and environmental campaigner Al Gore referred to Professor Maslowski’s work.
“Last September 21, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented alarm that the north polar ice cap is in their words, ‘falling off a cliff’,” Mr Gore said.
“One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years.
“Another new study to be presented by US Navy researchers later this week warns it could happen in as little as seven years - seven years from now.”
As the world meets in Bali, Mr Gore went on to repeat his calls for tough action on climate change.
But the trouble is, it looks increasingly like it may already be too late.”
(What’s this I hear about a lie getting halfway ‘round the world before truth has a chance to get its pants on?)
“Which lends credence to the theory that cosmic rays, not CO2, are causing warming.”
Our solar system does not just spin in a flat circle round the galaxy.
It proceeds in a circular sine wave pattern, much like the horses on a merry-go round.
We just went through the plane of the galaxy, which is the thickest part, the densest part, and the maximum density of cosmic rays.
Cosmic rays cause a reaction by the sun. The sun causes reaction on Earth.
Any changes we can effect on the amount of CO2 is comparable to pissing in a lake, and believing you can raise the height of the lake.
Water Vapor regulates the amount of varying parts of the electromagnetic radiation from space, and the sun, and is responsible for changes in weather.
On weather satellites sites, they show images which reflect and control the weather.
CO2 is NEVER shown. Because it just has no measurable effect on the weather, but is more a result of the weather, the ocean, and Earth’s explosive areas on the crust.
We just went through the plane of the galaxy, which is the thickest part, the densest part, and the maximum density of cosmic rays.
Interesting--I did not know that. What's the period of the oscillation?
The title bar has the name of the article as follows:
“Arctic Sea Ice Refreezes Slowly”
Huh? Sounds like they’re editorializing, contrary to the article that follows.
“What’s the period of the oscillation?”
IIRC, 11,000 years
11,000 years ????
I will try to find out the correct figure.
Hm..... I wasn’t even close.
The Apex of the Sun’s Way, or the solar apex, is the direction that the Sun travels through space in the Milky Way. The general direction of the Sun’s galactic motion is towards the star Vega near the constellation of Hercules, at an angle of roughly 60 sky degrees to the direction of the Galactic Center. The Sun’s orbit around the Galaxy is expected to be roughly elliptical with the addition of perturbations due to the galactic spiral arms and non-uniform mass distributions. In addition the Sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane approximately 2.7 times per orbit. This is very similar to how a simple harmonic oscillator works with no drag force (dampening) term.
It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit (a galactic year),[30] and so it is thought to have completed about 20–25 orbits during its lifetime or 0.0008 orbit since the origin of humans. The orbital speed of the solar system is 220 km/s, i.e., 1 light-year in ca. 1400 years, and 1 AU in 8 days.[31]
See, all that extra CO2 traps heat in the summer...record melt...but in the winter, it blocks the heat, record freezing. The only logical way to fix it is to tax Americans into the poorhouse.
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