Posted on 11/29/2014 6:39:51 AM PST by Lorianne
NSIDC has announced the discovery and recovery of space footage of Earth’s polar icecaps, dating back to 1964.
The recovered photographs have yielded some startling surprises, according to David Gallaher, technical services manager at NSIDC, bold mine:
In the Arctic, sea ice extent was larger in the 1960s than it is these days, on average. “It was colder, so we expected that,” Gallaher said. What the researchers didn’t expect were “enormous holes” in the sea ice, currently under investigation. “We can’t explain them yet,” Gallaher said.
“And the Antarctic blew us away,” he said. In 1964, sea ice extent in the Antarctic was the largest ever recorded, according to Nimbus image analysis. Two years later, there was a record low for sea ice in the Antarctic, and in 1969 Nimbus imagery, sea ice appears to have reached its maximum extent earliest on record.
When NASA launched Nimbus-1 50 years ago, the agency’s key goals were to test instruments that could capture images of clouds and other meteorological features, Gallaher said.
The Nimbus satellites dished up such excellent observations, NASA eventually handed over key technologies to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), for use in weather forecasting, including hurricane forecasts.
But even with such success, data tapes and film that recorded Nimbus observations slipped through the cracks.
“At the time, the satellites’ real-time observations, including clouds, for example, were what people wanted most of all, for weather forecasting,” Gallaher said.
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I know, lets build a scam that affects the lives of everybody on Earth and extorts mass amounts of money from them to keep the scam going.
Frankly, I don’t trust anything NASA or any of its hangers-on agencies that use the data from satellites they launch say. To me it’s just backdoor government manipulation and/or wanton misinterpretation and spin of data that aren’t provenanced.
I wonder when the global cooling deniers will give up their hoax !
And 50 years?? What the hell is 50 years in relation to the age of the universe.
The satellites were put up to take photos of clouds. They only captured images of the Antarctic by coincidence. These films were stored for 40 years before someone thought of looking for them on the off chance they would show other things.
I agree about NASA and NOAA. Not trustworthy in analysis. The films and data should be available for independent scientists to study.
The sixties also saw extensive submarine research in the arctic. The Skate class subs were designed for it. A good deal of this had to do with ice thickness and open areas to surface and fire missiles. There was a lot of data gathered. Waldo Lyon rode along on several cruises.
Agree.
I'd say the polar holes are underground volcanoes aka methane escape holes. Nothing new about that.
Kinda like cutting poured concrete into blocks so it doesn't split.
They want to put everything into a neat and orderly grid and cannot stand that the earth has a lot of variances that occur naturally and outside their attempts to lay it all out on a steady and stable line.
I don’t think they are thinking of as 50 years showing significance for all time. The point is that it showed dramatic change in short periods of time (2 years) which shows how much we don’t know. It takes some of the wind out of the sails of those who claim to know it all (even without all the data).
There’s blow hole if I ever saw one.
^a
The Navy began sending nuclear subs up to the north pole during that era. Many of the accounts written about those missions indicate that there was open water to be found in areas where the sea ice fractured.
When the glaciers once again cover North America. LOL
How’s that state mandated cap and trade been working out for you, California?
California is trying every social engineering experiment ever conceived
Isn’t it amazing ... they can find the original images of the polar ice caps taken in the 60s, but seem to have “lost” most of the original images taken during the Apollo program ...
I don’t ‘object’ to the actuality or not of said “holes”. I object to politicization of such. In that regard, I still won’t believe NASA in this day and age about anything it says or does, actually.
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