North Pole could be ice-free this summer, scientists say

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/06/27/north.pole.melting/index.html?section=cnn_latest ^

[wastedyears]

What a load of BS.

[Jay Howard Smith]

It will be a nice change of pace for Santa Claus ..! :>)

[Izzy Dunne]

And it's all caused by us mean old humans, not the fact that Recent massive volcanoes have risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap.

[Diogenesis]

"the thin Arctic sea ice, which was frozen last autumn,"
suggests that this is cyclic each year, and invalidates the conclusion.

How CNN. Accurate as 2.5 dollar note

[chessplayer]

Because this past winters ice cover was so thin compared to previous years, it looks like this years melting is happening even faster than last summer. Compare this 6/26/08 picture;
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

to the ice cover on 6/26/07;
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/archive.html

Deep purple areas = full ice concentration.
Lighter purple = 80% concentration.
Red areas = 60%
Yellow areas = 40%
Black areas = open water.

[Ezekiel]

"Eet More Chickin"

[Glenn]

This is great news!

I can be an orange farmer in Alaska!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to The Top of the World !

[MIchaelTArchangel]

When I was a kid, I think it was the USS Nautilus, that broke through the ice at the North Pole. The crew played baseball there. If a submarine can break through the ice, that ice cannot be too thick to start with. What the twits writing these stories want us to believe is that the Arctic Ocean is frozen solid from top to bottom and that the earth must be having a “fever” for the ice to melt. I suppose in another 30 years they will be telling us about the coming new Ice Age as they were during the First Carter Administatrion. (The Second Carter Administration hasn’t happened—and it won’t unless we let it.)

[Sherman Logan]

I believe those are recently discovered volcanos. Doesn’t mean they haven’t been there all along.

[backhoe]

Assuming
( And we all know what they say about "assume..." )

wonder what they make of this?

Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing (and "huge volumes of CO2")

[Aussiebabe]

This thread was posted earlier today. There is an easier way to compare dates, actually it is on the same site you reference. http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=06&fd=26&fy=2007&sm=06&sd=26&sy=2008

[samtheman]

Alright. Let’s get those oil-rigs up there! Once the ice is gone, we’re clear to drill!

[Shady]

Then how come is was so darn cold in Gnu Yak this past winter?
Socialist Babble.

[palmer]

Don't see it. I'm comparing http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/ARCHIVE/20070626.jpg with http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/arctic.jpg and there's clearly more ice this year than last.

[Thrownatbirth]

Good! Maybe that will prevent the bears from eating the taxpayers' very expensive submarines.

[prisoner6]

Looks like ice to me.

North Pole LIVE (sorta) webcams

FWIW these cams have been deployed each spring over the past few years. The reason they have to redeploy is because the ice melts and drifts from the pole carrying the cams along with the flow.

Weather. It happens.

prisoner6

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

What a steaming pant load this story is.

[DB]

They've likely been there for thousands of years, but they've become active over the last several years. Active volcanoes heat the surrounding environment and it doesn't take that much heating to make a big difference there...