Posted on 04/03/2009 9:09:10 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Some 80 percent of Arctic ice may disappear in 30 years, not 90 as scientists had previously estimated, according to a new study on the impact of global warming.
"The amount of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice at the end of summer by then could be only about 1 million square kilometers, or about 620,000 square miles," said US researchers who authored the study published Thursday.
"That's compared to today's ice extent of 4.6 million square kilometers, or 2.8 million square miles," they added, warning the development "raises the question of ecosystem upheaval."
The scientists made their projections based on models that took accounted for changes in Arctic ice, which saw "dramatic declines" at the end of summer in 2007 and 2008, when the ice surface dropped to 4.3 and 4.6 million square kilometers (1.7 and 1.8 million square miles), respectively.
The models pointed to a "nearly ice-free" Arctic in just 32 years, with some of the models making the same prediction for 11 years from now.
"In recent years, the combination of unusual warm temperatures from natural causes and the global warming signal have worked together to provide an earlier summer sea-ice loss than was predicted," said James Overland of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Should make for some awesome fishing.
And think of how easy it will be to club baby seals!
It sounds like I should invest in some realestate in Greenland. It would make a good retirement investment to be able to sell this fertile farmland in about 30 years now that this catastrophe has been moved up.
Good, ice free shipping lanes over the North Pole.
It never bothers these loons to be completely wrong, they just keep predicting disaster.
The natural cycle has turned, now there should be a new ice age coming.
This may be a good thing. All that melting ice will dump a bunch of cold water into the seas that are currently being boiled alive by all that Globull Warming. That’ll cool them off nicely.
Yeah, I was hoping to take a dip in the Arctic Ocean one day. No stinging jellyfish there, I bet!
The sun MAY come up in the west tomorrow but I seriously doubt that it will.
Someone needs to ask these clowns what is happening with Antarctic ice while this is supposedly happening in the Arctic.
Pssst! It is expanding.
This means that all of the global warming Green-Weenies will no longer freeze to death or have to be rescued when they go there.
Minus 14 F when I got up this morn, under 100 miles from arctic circle.
I live in Southwestern Alaska- generally fairly temperate in the winter, comparatively speaking- This winter has been 6 months of at least 20 degrees below normal every day- today it’s minus 4 with a windchill of minus 25- at $6/gal for heating oil, we could use some ‘warming’.
World’s deserts may be fertile in 30 years!
BRRR!!! No thanks!
+45 When I got up here in South East Texas this morning.
Weasel words...
Poor dopes. Now that there’s been no warming for a decade and as great a decline in global temperatures over the course of 1 year as there was an increase since the 1930s and the start of a multidecadal cooling phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and a very quiescent sun, these guys are going to look so screwed in a very short time. Of course, by then they will have locked in a big chunk of research money.
It never ends. No use arguing anymore. Facts don’t mean a thing. The gubmints of the world have decided to cram “The Big Lie” down our throats.
And we are gonna pay.
Cool! Carnival cruise ships from Barrow to Archangel and Finland! The tourist industry will boom! Henry Hudson was right!
The sky is green, I have a computer model to prove it.
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