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Researchers predict ice-free North Pole this year
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| May 23, 2008
| JANE GEORGE
Posted on 05/25/2008 1:25:21 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON
But the down side to the retreat of the Arctic's thin ice cover is a 50-50 chance that the North Pole will become ice-free this September - And this is bad because?
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posted on
05/25/2008 2:35:36 PM PDT
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: PROCON
Good. Instead of getting sled dogs, muckluks, and whatnot, I can just fire up the Chris Craft and zip on up there.
Or paddle the kyak. Whatever.
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posted on
05/25/2008 2:35:36 PM PDT
by
Othniel
(Kirk: Don't trust them. Don't believe them. Spock: They're dying. Kirk: LET THEM DIE.)
To: PROCON
for the first time in more than 100,000 years Of course, there is no way they would have known weather or not there was no ice at the pole even 500 years ago, let alone 100,000.
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posted on
05/25/2008 2:36:58 PM PDT
by
Ron Jeremy
(sonic)
To: PROCON
If their prediction comes true, they will say “see! global warming”
If it doesn’t come true, we will near nothing more of it.
To: PROCON
Woo hoo. I’ll get my water ski’s and you bring the beers.
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posted on
05/25/2008 2:51:57 PM PDT
by
BlueStateBlues
(Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
To: PROCON
Good thing the North Pole has never moved in the last 100,000 years...
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posted on
05/25/2008 4:51:33 PM PDT
by
an amused spectator
(Spitzer would have used the Mann Act against an enemy in a New York minute.)
To: PROCON
Someone screwed up. This is a short term forecast. Usually the forecasts are 30+ years. This is one to check back on, email the writer to ask what happened and if she’ll make a retraction, and post the response.
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posted on
05/25/2008 5:42:04 PM PDT
by
Entrepreneur
(The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Did somebody mentions thickness?
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posted on
05/25/2008 7:01:59 PM PDT
by
Thickman
(Term limits are the answer.)
To: PROCON
I just saw that Victoria Australia just reported the lowest temperature for the month of May where it got down to -13C (7F) a couple of days ago.
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posted on
05/25/2008 7:19:20 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(McCain ain't nuttin' but a hound dog.)
To: Swiss
I heard one scientist say there is more oil under the arctic than the entire Mideast. That's true. The dinosaurs killed wooly mammoths and used them for coats.
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posted on
05/25/2008 7:35:12 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Ted Kennedy is the finest collection of hops and barley money can buy)
To: Thickman
I’m glad to see someone caught the inference.
To: PROCON
Sea Ice conditions in Hudson Bay are exactly normal right now so there is nothing to report here.
The sea ice is usually melts by mid-July in Hudson Bay so again, there is nothing to report here. It returns by mid-December so it is not exactly a long shipping season.
To: Swiss
In ‘84 I was on an exploratory well in the Beaufort Sea, (50 miles off Milne Point in Prudhoe Bay area,) It was drilled from a man-made island. (Mukluk Island)
It was and still is the most expensive well ever drilled. (1.7 Billion $) It was a dry hole. It broke Diamond Shamrock and hurt Exxon so badly, they sold out their interest on the North Slope to Standard Oil. (SAPC)
There is some directional drilling and concrete floater drilling near the shore line, but most of the oil is inland.
The difficulty to drill offshore there, mainly because of the pack ice, will put a halt to any optimism or effort.
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posted on
05/26/2008 6:23:12 AM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(Juan McCain....The lesser of Three Liberals.")
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
But if the ice at the North Pole melts then would it be doable?
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posted on
05/26/2008 9:19:48 AM PDT
by
Swiss
To: PROCON
50-50 chance that the North Pole will become ice-free this September - for the first time in more than 100,000 years. Saw the idea that the north pole has not been ice free for that long and then on further readings of the sentence saw that they meant this is the first 50-50 chance in 100,000 years. How they know this is not known, since none of them are over 30.
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posted on
05/26/2008 9:27:10 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(You are reading this now)
To: piytar
Here is this year's current ice extent compared to 1979 (the first year a satellite image was available). We can watch it throughout the summer to see who is right.
Compare Daily Sea Ice
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posted on
05/26/2008 8:16:01 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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