Re: OT The 10 Worst Warming Predictions

On Dec 23, 8:08 am, Terraholm <terraholmSPAM...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
agaxxan wrote:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/com...

IN April this year, the papers were full of warnings the Arctic ice
could all melt.

In fact, the Arctic s ice cover this year was almost 10 per cent above
last year s great low, and has refrozen rapidly since.

http://www.nsidc.org/news/press/20081002_seaice_pressrelease.html
Arctic Sea Ice Down to Second-Lowest Extent; Likely Record-Low Volume

Despite cooler temperatures and ice-favoring conditions, long-term
decline continues

Arctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the
second-lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching
the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on September 14,
2008. Average sea ice extent over the month of September, a standard
measure in the scientific study of Arctic sea ice, was 4.67 million
square kilometers (1.80 million square miles) (Figure 1). The record
monthly low, set in 2007, was 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65
million square miles); the now-third-lowest monthly value, set in 2005,
was 5.57 million square kilometers (2.15 million square miles).

The 2008 season strongly reinforces the thirty-year downward trend in
Arctic ice extent. The 2008 September low was 34% below the long-term
average from 1979 to 2000 and only 9% greater than the 2007 record
(Figure 2). Because the 2008 low was so far below the September average,
the negative trend in September extent has been pulled downward, from
10.7 % per decade to 11.7 % per decade (Figure 3).

NSIDC Senior Scientist Mark Serreze said, When you look at the sharp
decline that we ve seen over the past thirty years, a recovery from
lowest to second lowest is no recovery at all. Both within and beyond
the Arctic, the implications of the decline are enormous.

  Meanwhile, sea

ice in the Southern Hemisphere has been increasing. Been told either
cool fact?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0110/p14s01-sten.html

The overall growth in Antarctica's sea ice over the past two decades
masks significant regional declines in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen
Seas the destination for glaciers flowing from the West Antarctic Ice
***. Researchers say these glaciers are losing ice to the sea faster
than snow is replenishing the ice. Thus, the large regional drops in sea
ice could also signal the presence of "a very big threat to glacier ice"
on the continent, says Xiaojun Yuan, a polar scientist at Columbia
University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. The
leading suspect: relatively warm water upwelling near the coast as a
result of global warming's effect on wind patterns in the region.

he doesn't understand...neither does his dtto head...they are just not
smart enough to grasp....their brains are in their pocketbooks.
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