How long does a theory have to be dead, before the general public starts to smell the reek of it’s corpse:
A new NASA-led study found a 23-percent loss in the extent of the Arctic’s thick, year-round sea ice cover during the past two winters. This drastic reduction of perennial winter sea ice is the primary cause of this summer’s fastest-ever sea ice retreat on record and subsequent smallest-ever extent of total Arctic coverage.
A team led by Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., studied trends in Arctic perennial ice cover by combining data from NASA’s Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) satellite with a computing model based on observations of sea ice drift from the International Arctic Buoy Programme. QuikScat can identify and map different classes of sea ice, including older, thicker perennial ice and younger, thinner seasonal ice.
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Nghiem said the rapid decline in winter perennial ice the past two years was caused by unusual winds. “Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the Arctic,” he said. When that sea ice reached lower latitudes, it rapidly melted in the warmer waters.
crossposted @ Celestial Junk
Apollyon at October 9, 2007 12:52 AM
If you look at the Milankovic cycle, are you aware that due to the earth’s present in obliquity and eccentricity that we should be slowly approaching an ice age? Instead we are getting warmer. Why do you suppose that is?
alby:
Because human beings cannot predict today’s weather, never mind a more complex issue like climate change?
BTW, what’s normal?
A convenient fraud now being exposed
A WORD of advice to the many teachers who have been scaring our children with screenings of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
Be aware that a judge this month instructed British teachers showing the film to tell their pupils that Gore makes at least 11 false or unsupported claims.
[…]
Here are those 11 corrections to Gore’s film – and many will be familiar to readers of this column:
Gore presents Mt Kilimanjaro’s melting snows as proof of global warming. In fact, the snows are vanishing thanks to local factors, including deforestation.
Gore suggests Antarctica’s ice cover is melting. Most studies says it is increasing or stable.
Gore shows scary graphics of cities drowning in seas that rise 7m, causing millions of refugees. But the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the seas will rise at worst by 59cm this century.
Gore uses images of Hurricane Katrina and suggests it was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert in this case admitted such one-off events can’t be blamed on warming.
Gore suggests ice-core evidence shows rising CO2 caused temperature rises, which ended the past seven ice ages. In fact, the CO2 rises followed temperature rises by 800 to 2000 years.
Gore claims global warming could stop the Gulf Stream, causing an ice age in Europe. Recent studies deny it.
Gore blames global warming for species losses and coral reef bleaching. The Government couldn’t show evidence to back this claim.
Gore claims a study showed polar bears had drowned because of vanishing ice. The study actually said just four polar bears drowned, and only because of a bad storm.
Gore suggests Greenland’s ice could melt, causing a dangerous rise in sea levels. In fact, Greenland’s ice won’t melt for thousands of years.
Gore shows the drying up of Lake Chad and claims this was caused by global warming. The Government’s expert agreed this was not the case.
Gore claims rising seas have forced people to flee Pacific islands to New Zealand. There is no record of any such warming-caused evacuation.
I don’t know why the court stopped at just 11. Hyperbole overload? But this must be enough to make rational viewers sceptical of all Gore’s case. […]
What madness took hold even of our scientists, that the CSIRO could claim of this deceitful film, “its scientific basis is very sound”?
Children, you are being told untruths to scare you. And shame on those who are party to this deceit. …-
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22559777-5000117,00.html
“It’s now”. Pull the plug … it’s over… now …-
P.S. Where is that save thing?
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Scientist: Emissions already beyond ‘worst-case’ scenario
By Meraiah Foley, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
[…]
Tim Flannery …
“We are already at great risk of dangerous climate change. That’s what these figures say. It’s not next year or next decade. It’s now.”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2007/10/09/4561963-ap.html
I noticed on the Climate Audit site there is a furious debate going about whether data is available or not. For something that is ‘settled’ or ‘debate over’ there are quite a few PHDs on both sides.
Speaking of demanding undeniable truth, you aren’t by chance a practicing Christian/Muslim/Jew are you? – albatros
bahahaha – nice try!
NO.
You’re just going to have to take a few courses in geography, geomorphology, geology, climate science, chemistry and physics to learn the “the undeniable proof of AGW.”
A few courses and i’ll have the undeniable proof eh?
So why are men with lifelong careers in science and PhD’s in the field still unsure about the causes?
Are they “stupid” or “morons” in your eyes too? Are you more educated in these matters than they are?
How come we never hear anything about antarctica which is getting colder how come NASA is only talking about the arctic?
spurwing plover at October 10, 2007 12:00 PM
Yes we do
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/antarctic_snowmelt.html