Recent cold snap helping Arctic sea ice, scientists find

CBC News ^ | February 15, 2008 | NA

[DouglasKC]

If I remember my physics correctly it gets warm in the summer and ice melts. Then it gets cold in the winter and ice forms.

[RightWhale]

What’s with all this helping and recovering. It’s just ice, not a hospital patient. Besides, the Northwest Passage, closed for over 600 years, remains closed most of the year and international trade pays the bill.

[RightWhale]

Yes. It’s a New Age thing. Planetary psychology.

[RedMonqey]

In other words, will the return of ice threaten Polar Bears with extinction?

Nah.

It will be something equally ridiculous.

Like overpopulation of polar bears bears threat of extinction.

[dvan]

Shoot! I was hoping to have a summer vacation place in the Artic!

[dvan]

"Someone call Algore and his disciples and tell them that the “crisis” is over. I’m sure he’ll write a sequel retracting the alarmist bs he’s been preaching."

Only if the Noble Peace Prize Committee asks for the refund of $1,000,000.

[ArmstedFragg]

The polar regions are a concern to climate specialists studying global warming, since those regions are expected to feel the impact of climate change sooner and to a greater extent than other areas.

Good grief! With all his interference with warming, Al Gore has gotten us into a new ice age!!

[ArmstedFragg]

I believe you’ve just coined a new phrase to express a lack of concern regarding the fanatical outpourings of climate change whackos: “Whatever floats your bear”.

[proud_yank]

Great to see you too, its been a while! I’m on an island, so hoping to see a polar bear.

I had to drive inland a ways to pick someone up and saw an Arctic fox in the morning, and oddly enough about 10 caribou that decided to spend the winter here. They migrate south in the winter, and spend the summer here. I’ve heard that occasionally a few will winter here, but become rather weak and usually become bear food in the spring-time.

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[girlangler]

Interesting, I’m watching a History Channel show about Alaska as I type this, in between working on an article.

Went to the SHOT Show in Las Vegas week before last, then spent a week sick with a bronchial infection. I’m okay now, but that’ll teach me to go out among 40,000 people.

Now they are talking about the Iditarod. Cool.

Hope you get to see a Polar Bear. If you see Paul McCartney and his now very rich ex wife up there saving baby seals, or the HSUS folks saving the Polar Bears, take some photos (grin).

How long will you be there? Hope you get to see the big caribou migration this coming summer.

[driftless2]

"upside"

I'd like to make all the "experts" who think extreme cold weather is great spend a winter freezing their extremities off like where I live. It's been cold around here (western Wisconsin). Not as cold as the Arctic, but a lot colder than normal.

[lepton]

That was because the thick multi-year ice pack that survives a summer melt has been decreasing in recent years, as well as moving further south. Langis said the ice pack is currently located about 130 kilometres from the Mackenzie Delta, about half the distance from where it was last year.

Hidden in the article is the above. The reason for much of the melt-back wasn't warmth...it was the icepack moving. On one side it was pushed north, creating open sea, and on the other side it was being pushed south, where it could melt. As usual most of the dramatic examples hysterically cited in the claim of warming aren't evidence of warming at all.

[lepton]

where the ice shrank to record-low levels last year.

Also, keep in mind that "ever" means "since 1979".

[TASMANIANRED]

Winter is funny that way..

[the invisib1e hand]

Congratulations, Al. You singlehandedly saved the world from global warming.

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[Fred Nerks]

Has anyone seen the insipid commercial from the World Wildlife Fund (?) with that actress from NYPD Blue? The polar bears are dying because of global warming! Oh my God!!!!

meanwhile, it's quite acceptable to hunt polar bears, hunters from all around the world are shooting bears.

[Dajjal]

ROTFL!!!