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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 ^

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; arctic; climatechange; cnn; northpole; northwestpassage; propagandawingofdnc; yellowjournalism
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1 posted on 06/27/2008 2:48:23 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

What a load of BS.


2 posted on 06/27/2008 2:50:02 AM PDT by wastedyears (Obama is a Texas Post Turtle.)
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To: wastedyears

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


3 posted on 06/27/2008 2:51:45 AM PDT by Jay Howard Smith (Retired(25yrNCO)Military)
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To: chessplayer
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.
4 posted on 06/27/2008 2:55:42 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: chessplayer
"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


5 posted on 06/27/2008 2:55:50 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: 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.


6 posted on 06/27/2008 2:59:26 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer; martin_fierro; aculeus; dighton

"Eet More Chickin"

7 posted on 06/27/2008 3:00:44 AM PDT by Ezekiel
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To: chessplayer

This is great news!

I can be an orange farmer in Alaska!


8 posted on 06/27/2008 3:02:08 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: chessplayer; proud_yank; FrPR; enough_idiocy; rdl6989; IrishCatholic; Normandy; Delacon; ...
 




Beam me to The Top of the World !

9 posted on 06/27/2008 3:06:22 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: chessplayer

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.)


10 posted on 06/27/2008 3:11:26 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Izzy Dunne

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


11 posted on 06/27/2008 3:11:33 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: chessplayer; All
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")

12 posted on 06/27/2008 3:13:05 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the Trakball in to the Sunset...)
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To: chessplayer

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


13 posted on 06/27/2008 3:13:28 AM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: chessplayer

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


14 posted on 06/27/2008 3:18:47 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: chessplayer

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


15 posted on 06/27/2008 3:21:27 AM PDT by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: chessplayer
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.
16 posted on 06/27/2008 3:22:27 AM PDT by palmer (Tag lines are an extra $1)
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To: chessplayer
Good! Maybe that will prevent the bears from eating the taxpayers' very expensive submarines.

17 posted on 06/27/2008 3:22:30 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: chessplayer
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

18 posted on 06/27/2008 3:31:44 AM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
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To: chessplayer

What a steaming pant load this story is.


19 posted on 06/27/2008 3:32:00 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Life is too short to go through it clenched of sphincter and void of humor - it's okay to laugh.)
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To: Sherman Logan
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...
20 posted on 06/27/2008 3:36:01 AM PDT by DB
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