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Voted : It just is a 'What If' scare..there are more ice this year than in 2007
Scientists on a radio show was saying that the ice caps are no danger of melting. The whole thing mentioned was just a fear tactic by a few environmentialists. Even other environmentalialist agree that the caps are in no danger of melting.
Voted : I never thought I'd see these changes in my lifetime
(From the Autralian)
THE Arctic ice cap, damaged by a record melt last year, is at good odds to disappear altogether this northern summer, polar scientists have warned.
The ice edge shrank to within about 1100km of the North Pole last year.
The scientists say the chances of an ice-free North Pole this summer are greater than 50-50 because of last year's melt and the fact that thick ice has been blown way in recent years.
What has replaced it is what the scientists call first-year ice - recent, thin and susceptible to melting, The Australian reports.
And when the ice breaks up, what is left is dark ocean - which absorbs more heat than reflective ice does, speeding up the melting at the ice edges.
The satellite data of recent weeks is already showing the new ice is melting more quickly than last year's.
"The issue is that, for the first time that I'm aware of, the North Pole is covered with extensive first-year ice - ice that formed last autumn and winter," Dr Serreze said.
"I'd say it's even-odds whether the North Pole melts out."
Another scientist, the University of Washington's Ron Lindsay, said there was now a waiting game to see what the summer's weather patterns would bring in winds and daily hours of sunshine.
"There's a good chance it will all melt away at the North Pole," Dr Lindsay said. "It's certainly feasible, but it's not guaranteed."
Cambridge University professor of ocean physics Peter Wadhams said ocean openings last summer meant the ice was more susceptible to melting this year.
"Last year, we saw huge areas of the ocean open up, which has never been experienced before. People are expecting this to continue this year, and it's likely to extend over the North Pole," Professor Wadhams said. "It's quite likely the North Pole will be exposed this summer. It's not happened before."
Inuit natives living near Baffin Bay, between Canada and Greenland, are reporting that the sea ice is starting to break up much earlier than usual. They have seen wide cracks in the ice where it normally remains stable.
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(From telegraph.co.uk)
Although there is more ice than this time last year, the average decline rate through the month of April was 2,300 square miles per day faster than last April.
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You can listen to some radio jock trying to to sell stuff by omitting facts or you can research various articles and maybe come to a conclusion, right or wrong yourself... let the readers decide... go GOOGLING...
In August 2000 the New York Times ran a piece claiming the pole was free of ice for the first time in 50 million years, long before SUVs roamed Earth. As earth scientist Patrick Michaels noted, "It was retracted three weeks later as a barrage of scientists protested that open water is common at or near the pole at the end of summer."
As reported in the June 26 edition of ScienceDaily, a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of massive undersea volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. "Explosive volatile discharge has clearly been a widespread, and ongoing, process," according to the WHOI team.
At the other end of Earth, we're told the Larsen B ice shelf on the western side of Antarctica is collapsing. That part is warming and has been for decades. But it comprises just 2% of the continent. The rest is cooling.
At the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute and the University of Virginia debunked claims of "unprecedented" melting of Arctic ice. He showed how Arctic temperatures were warmer during the 1930s and the vast majority of Antarctica is indeed cooling.
I didn't know disaster would look as pretty as the picture.
Voted : We are witnessing a World in peril
Anyone who doubts...I feel for them, because their grip on reality can't be too firm.
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