Posted on 07/18/2008 5:25:35 AM PDT by gusopol3
Arctic sea ice extent on July 16 fell roughly between the extent for the same day in 2007 and the long-term average. The spatial pattern of summer ice loss has evolved differently from last year; this reflects the prevailing pattern of atmospheric circulation. Areas of low-concentration ice are also developing at unusually high latitudes.
Note: Analysis updates, unless otherwise noted, now show a single-day extent value for Figure 1, as opposed to the standard monthly average. While monthly average extent images are more accurate in understanding long-term changes, the daily images are helpful in monitoring sea ice conditions in near-real time.
No matter what happens, global warming is proven. Really a quite amazing theory as it explains everything perfectly after the fact.
Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it with probability 1.00000000000000000000.
you may be a candidate for re-education come 09.01.20.
Do the Arctic underwater volcanos have anything to do with this “record melt”? (Underwater volcanos have nothing to do with it. It’s all caused by Americans burning carbon fuels.)
Why is it that last year’s “record melt” re-froze so nicely to normal area last winter? (Underwater volcanos. Everyone knows that hot water freezes before cold water.)
did you ever stop to think global warming may be responsible for underwater volcanoes ?( Dan Quayle and learned our spelling together)
Because this is a leap year, the same date this year is actually about 3/4 of a day further along in the season than the same day last year. (In common years, the calendar runs about a 1/4 day slow per year, after three such years, it “leaps” ahead 3/4 (3/4 = 1 - 1/4) of a day, more or less keeping the calendar in sync with the seasons, long term.)
John Jacob Astor had a plan to straighten the axis of the earth (eliminate the tilt) . That would have pretty much taken care of things. Of course, the cost would be prohibitive now.
I may have to steal that for a tag line.
These guys are particularly brilliant, are they not?
The rotational rate of the earth slows down by about 0.002 seconds per day per century, due to tidally induced transfer from earth's rotational angular momentum to the moon's orbit. The rate of energy transfer is about one gigawatt.
The amount of energy (and mass) required to "eliminate the tilt" is staggering. It is probably not possible to do at any cost. (We might as well eliminate the eccentricity of the earth's orbit while we're at it.)
The effects of eliminating seasons would be disasterous, short term. Maybe he should have concentrated on something more practical, like maritime safety.
Permission granted. And it is original with me (as is “The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for Necro-Americans”), though I’m sure it’s occured to others.
you're right, Tesla tried to get him to fund Wardenclyffe. (I'm not even sure whether I'm being sarcastic or not)
http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?fm=07&fd=17&fy=2007&sm=07&sd=17&sy=2008
Last year july 17 vs july 17, 2008. Pictures are worth a thousand words. Please note Hudson Bay is still not ice free this year when it was already in June last year. Also, the Siberian weather this year has been much colder than last summer and thus much less melting of sea ice along Russian Coast. No matter, the Branch Algorians have changed the mantra to ‘climate change’ anyways.
so why are posting pictures of a giant red tide? Wouldn't be tryin' to induce a little mass hysteria to help the McCain campaign would ya?
I think we referred to it as the “fudge factor”...
Actually it was him and another guy, which makes it a half-Astor idea...sorry.
Thank goodness for that!
trouble is, now that sounds like a voting bloc
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