[pgyanke]

... raising the prospect of the first mostly ice-free Arctic summer in centuries.

Gee... I didn't know they had SUVs centuries ago!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Much discussion in the Daily Tech article comments section about whether the Artic is actually warming and whether Eskimos is a pejorative word like negro....

[Amagi]

Ping.

[DallasMike]

It looks like they’ve totally missed out on what Kate at Small Dead Animals calls the Gates.

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013242.html

[Stevenc131]

Oops, everyone may have to delay those plans for an ice-free Arctic.

“A report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado finds that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/10/inconvenient-truth-ice-cap-growing/

[WellyP]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html

The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html#ixzz0eOk83KsM

[pallis]

With Badcrack Obamao in charge, we’ll be lucky if the rest of the world lets us have so much as a slushy from the arctic.

[Danae]

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

Earth is Cyclical in it’s weather. There is NOTHING in this that leads to or SHOULD lead to any conclusion other than a normal 30 year warming cooling trend.

As the shape of the Earth’s orbit changes, and our summers/winters change their corresponding times in relation to our oval shaped orbit, these cycles will ALWAYS occur.

CO2 emissions can’t do a damned thing about the shape of a planet’s orbit, or effect the output of the sun. THOSE factors are the only ones that really matter.

[Old Professer]

"Recently, climatologists have bumped estimates of ice free summers from the end of the twenty-first century to about 2030. "Ice free" is defined as a summer in which their are several weeks in which there is less than 10 percent aerial ice coverage." I believe this should have read, "areal."

[mosesdapoet]

A Canadian biologist/ Geo scientist, Patteron while attempting to uncover fluctuations in fish populations uncovered the cause of the earths cooling warming cycle and proved conclusively that CO2 is the not the cause.

A summary of his finding which first appeared in the Canadian Ecomomist in 07 can be found in http://www.theusmat.com/ with a link to the original story which must be requested.

[Doohickey]

United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and China.

Which one of these things doesn't belong?

[3niner]

This is stupid, Arctic ice does not melt in January and February.

[Enchante]

since liberals would not allow the USA to access any minerals and oil/gas etc. that may exist in the region, we may as well leave it all to countries who will do something useful with it (kidding, sort of, but not about the first part)

[OkiMusashi]

“Ice Free”??

Dude, last summer, the Top Gear boys filmed a 400 mile CAR vs Dog race to the North Pole.

The CARS won, btw, .... and it sure didn’t look “Ice Free” to me.