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.
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In all my years I only met one reporter that could do math beyond simple high school algebra...
In all my years I only met one reporter that could do math beyond simple high school algebra”
I don’t doubt it, but this was 1922. In all likelihood schools taught standard conversions by the eighth grade.
You’re right on this one... and I’m wrong - - happens.
And....
The Russians have had to curtail their summer program in the Arctic because the pack ice is too thick
Researchers in the Arctic have had to curtail their programs because it was too cold
We had almost no spring, a very hot and dry early summer but now it feels like blustery Fall weather. We will have some more hot days to be sure but we had a very rainy August, the Purple Martins have already left and I saw a flight of Canada Geese headed South already.
Sunspot activity is very low.
Some things never change, until they do.
That has never happened before, until now.
There is a first time for everything.
Thanks RACPE, and I wholeheartedly agree. The data set is small, and is broken into subsets because not exactly the same kinds of data have been recorded. The first year-round stay in Antarctica was documented in an old issue of Nat Geog that used to be around here (with the cover off), from circa 1956. The same kind of hysterical pandering went on about the ozone hole, which is entirely natural.
Feed ‘em some Spam, They’ll be fine!
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