Startling footage from the North Pole, showing a lake where dense ice should be, has left people shocked by the devastating effects of global warming.
Scientists have been ringing the global warning alarm bells for years, and the cries to heed the dire warnings of melting ice caps is hitting ever closer to home.
Images from the North Pole Environmental Observatory have recorded a speedy melt this summer.
According to LiveScience the water in the newly formed lake comes entirely from melted ice and not from the water below. Water picks up more radiation from the sun than solid ice, and area is getting even warmer due to warmer temperatures. The north pole saw temperatures two to five degrees warmer than average this year.
According to Gail Whiteman, of the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands the north is in a vicious circle as melting ice is releasing plumes of methane into the atmosphere, speeding up the pace of global warming.
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#AGW bullsh!t: “North Pole lake” not a lake, not due to global warming, and not even at the North Pole!
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Scientists have been ringing the global warning alarm bells for years, and the cries to heed the dire warnings of melting ice caps is hitting ever closer to home.
Images from the North Pole Environmental Observatory have recorded a speedy melt this summer.
According to LiveScience the water in the newly formed lake comes entirely from melted ice and not from the water below. Water picks up more radiation from the sun than solid ice, and area is getting even warmer due to warmer temperatures. The north pole saw temperatures two to five degrees warmer than average this year.
According to Gail Whiteman, of the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in the Netherlands the north is in a vicious circle as melting ice is releasing plumes of methane into the atmosphere, speeding up the pace of global warming.
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North pole turned into lake from global warming - Your Community
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#AGW bullsh!t: “North Pole lake” not a lake, not due to global warming, and not even at the North Pole!
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The Associated Press issued a formal retraction of a photo it published that claimed to show that a large lake had formed at the North Pole due to global warming.
In its retraction, the AP admitted that not only was the “lake” simply a small melt-pond but that it was natural, not due to global warming. The AP also admitted that the “lake” wasn’t even at the North Pole, explaining that the monitoring station where the photo was taken had drifted hundreds of miles to the south.
http://www.blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2013/08/ooopsnorth-pole-lake-not-lake-not-due.html
In its retraction, the AP admitted that not only was the “lake” simply a small melt-pond but that it was natural, not due to global warming. The AP also admitted that the “lake” wasn’t even at the North Pole, explaining that the monitoring station where the photo was taken had drifted hundreds of miles to the south.
http://www.blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2013/08/ooopsnorth-pole-lake-not-lake-not-due.html
