Posted on 08/21/2018 8:06:59 AM PDT by SMGFan
The oldest and most robust sea ice in the Arctic has reportedly began breaking up for the first time in recorded history.
The Guardian reported on Tuesday that the ice breaks, which result in water opening up north of Greenland, have happened twice in 2018 because of warm winds and a heat wave caused by climate change.
The sea off the northern coast of Greenland was once referred to as "the last ice area” because of how perpetually frozen it normally is. It was also believed that it would be one of the final northern areas to be impacted by the world's hotter temperatures.
An unusual increase in temperature in February and August have left it susceptible, however, The Guardian reported.
The newspaper noted that the warm winds have pushed the ice farther away from the coast than at any time since satellite records started being kept in the 1970s.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Is this normal for this area?
Has it been thicker or thinner in the past?
LOL!..................
We need a passage through the Arctic.
Time to increase my carbon footprint.
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And it’s not as if it’s Urgent.
We’re all gonna die!!
So, we must conclude that since Greenland is in fact Greenland, the ice in question is anomaly.
Greenland is the normal condition to which the climate is trending
That’s all that counts................
But it’s giving me Double Vision.................
And how old is the “oldest and most robust sea ice”?
Is this normal for this area?
Has it been thicker or thinner in the past?
Honest answer = “We don’t really know.
Satellite records of sea ice only started in Oct 1978. Before that? Only a very, very few selected surveys in isolated sections across the Arctic in isolated years (Fram expedition, one Russian camp in the 1930’s near the pole.)
This is mindless extrapolation of one area.
(By the way, in June 2014, the Antarctic sea ice set a daily all-time record high sea ice extents record - an area greater than normal for that day more 2.16 million square kilometers. An area greater than normal larger than the entire area of Greenland (2.06 Mkm^2)!
Boo hoo
Great movie
Didn’t icebergs break off and move into the Atlantic say around April 1912?.... : )
A reprise of the same old BS -- in the late 1990s, the NY Slimes claimed that the ice at the north pole had melted for the first time in millions of years, and Letterman ranted about that in his stupid opening monologue each night that week, until Friday, when the retraction came to his attention. Turned out that the 24 hour sunlight that happens every year at the north pole melts the ice every year.
So the original BS claim was reprinted in the NY Slimes Sunday supplement.
This is obviously just another lie, and its orchestrated, just as the YouTube ban on "deniers" is obviously orchestrated. Probably both can be traced back to that *******ed demagogue Tom Steyer.
Thanks SMGFan.
The reality is, most ice changes in the Arctic are due to changes in prevailing winds, not temperature change.
Scientists know this. News flunkies probably not.
Indeed just another of rewriting history.
And the way the AGW phonies state it, you'd believe that the pole becomes ice-free, when in fact only some surface melting results.
For a more historical perspective, see:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/09/23/arctic-ice-a-historical-viewpoint/
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