suggests that this is cyclic each year, and invalidates the conclusion.
How CNN. Accurate as 2.5 dollar note
Posted on 06/27/2008 2:48:23 AM PDT by chessplayer
(CNN) -- The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
It's a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice, which was frozen last autumn, will completely melt away at the geographic North Pole, Serreze said.
Serreze said it's "just another indicator of the disappearing Arctic sea ice cover" but that it is happening so soon is "just astounding to me."
"Five years ago, to think that we'd even be talking about the possibility of the North Pole melting out in the summer, I would have never thought it," he said.
"If you talked to me or other scientists just a few years ago, we were saying that we might lose all or most of the summer sea ice cover by anywhere from 2050 to 2100," Serreze said. "Then, recently, we kind of revised those estimates, maybe as early as 2030. Now, there's people out there saying it might be even before that. So, things are happening pretty quick up there."
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What a load of BS.
It will be a nice change of pace for Santa Claus ..! :>)
How CNN. Accurate as 2.5 dollar note
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.
"Eet More Chickin"
This is great news!
I can be an orange farmer in Alaska!
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.)
I believe those are recently discovered volcanos. Doesn’t mean they haven’t been there all along.
wonder what they make of this?
Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing (and "huge volumes of CO2")
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
Alright. Let’s get those oil-rigs up there! Once the ice is gone, we’re clear to drill!
Then how come is was so darn cold in Gnu Yak this past winter?
Socialist Babble.
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
What a steaming pant load this story is.
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