Posted on 06/26/2008 8:41:55 PM PDT by navysealdad
After a 2007 polar meltdown that sparked global concern, experts say the stage is set for another record-setting retreat of Arctic Ocean ice - with a top Canadian climate scientist already bracing for the once-unthinkable: open water at the North Pole.
"The North Pole may be free of ice for the first time in history," University of Manitoba polar specialist David Barber told Canwest News Service on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
didnt I just read something about volcanos on the floor of the sea of the north pole??
That couldnt have contributed?
first time in history?
so that means we can drill there now thats great
Hell yes perfect come back
Canadians better get a Navy soon because the Russians, Americans, Chinese and pretty much everyone else will be sailing around up in this newly opened ocean.
Final Analysis, Junk Science.
history is a long time..How would they know?
The link keeps sending me back here. I read an article earlier today about volcanos under the arctic ice.
That dang SUV of mine caused, and our pickup truck aided and abetted!
Must be getting warm enough to water-ski soon then?
they are reporters, facts have no influence on them
and logic is a foreign concept
Yesterday ice levels versus last year http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=06&fd=26&fy=2007&sm=06&sd=25&sy=2008
I think the jury is still out on whether it will be ice free this year. At least now we can see these images on a daily basis and do not have to rely on the MSM to tell you what is happening.
Well, it's about time!
“How would they know?”
Weather history is a delicious blank slate to them — it can be whatever they want. Pick your tree ring, pick your genus, your hemisphere, oh the possibilities!
Cmon now! Mr Barber is a P.H.D.
Piled Higher and Deeper
The famed Northwest Passage is open?
If only Columbus and other explorers had waited until now.
Cool (no pun intended).
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