Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/07/2008 7:59:47 PM PST by ebayhater
Rapid Rebound Brings Ice Back to Levels from the 1980s.
An abnormally cool Arctic is seeing dramatic changes to ice levels. In sharp contrast to the rapid melting seen last year, the amount of global sea ice has rebounded sharply and is now growing rapidly. The total amount of ice, which set a record low value last year, grew in October at the fastest pace since record-keeping began in 1979.
The actual amount of ice area varies seasonally from about 16 to 23 million square kilometers. However, the mean anomaly -- defined as the difference between the current area and the seasonally-adjusted average-- changes much slower, and generally varies by only 2-3 million square kilometers.
That anomaly had been negative...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
w00t? w00t? you mean the earth heals itself?
Wow! That Obama guy really works fast!!!!!
Sorry. You lose. Global climate change either warmer or cooler results from green house gas emissions which need to be reduced by carbon cap and trade schemes. Osama just said so and he has been elected.
Somebody call Al
send Al up there his Hot Air will melt it
Mainstream news headline— Obama Halts Global Warming....
What about all those despondent polar bears with their cubs stranded on melting sea ice in the teevee World Wildlife Fund ads being shown on CNN? Do you mean to tell me they are no longer in danger?
wow.. the anointed one does have a world wide effect on everything. /s
Everyone knows that the sea ice is only growing at the fastest rate in recorded history exactly BECAUSE of global warming. /s
We’re all going to die ! -—er -— freeze to death!
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the 2008 melt season was the higher-than-average retention of first-year sea ice (see earlier entries, including April 7). Relatively thin first-year ice is more prone to melting out completely than older, thicker ice. However, more of this year’s first-year ice survived the melt season than is typical. Sea ice age maps from Sheldon Drobot, our colleague at the University of Colorado at Boulder, show that much more first-year ice survived in 2008 than in 2007. This is one of the reasons that 2008 did not break last year’s record-low minimum.
One cause of the high first-year ice survival rate was that this summer was cooler than in 2007. Lower temperatures slowed the melt rate in the early part of the season. While conditions in August favored rapid ice loss, they were not enough to make up for this early-season “cushion.” Furthermore, much of this year’s first-year ice was located at higher latitudes than in 2007, covering even the geographic North Pole. Regions that are far north have lower melt rates because they receive less solar energy than more southerly regions.
Figure 4. Ice motion in 2007 compacted the ice pack; in 2008, ice motion did not have this effect. Average August ice motion captures the differences between the two years, with black arrows indicating ice motion. Sea ice motion derived using data from the NASA AMSR-E sensor.
—Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Democrats better enact all of their global warning garbage quickly. Otherwise they will never be able to claim credit for the current cooling cycle.
Run for your lives! Ice Age!
Another reason McLame lost, global warming MY ASS!
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