This summer may see first ice-free North Pole
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Won't someone please think of the children; they've been indoctrinated that the poor polar bears will have no ice to hunt on. What will we tell the children now?
Tell them they are getting aclimatized????????
Beside the lake.
Um, Kootenay Lake, that is.
I remember good times up there, Kaslo, Balfour, Riondel, Crawford Bay and of course several camping trips at Kokanee Creek. Okanagan Lake is warmer though............:lol::lol:
Tell 'em Santa's basement is going to flood. Bears and ice cubes won't be as important.
What's happening to glaciers globally?
Although Glaciologists measure year-to-year changes in glacier activity, it is the long term changes which provide the basis for statements such as "Global Glacier Recession Continues". Some Skeptics confuse these issues by cherry picking individual glaciers or by ignoring long term trends. Diversions such as these do not address the most important question of what is the real state of glaciers globally?
The answer is not only clear but it is definitive and based on the scientific literature. Globally glaciers are losing ice at an extensive rate (Figure 1). There are still situations in which glaciers gain or lose ice more than typical for one region or another but the long term trends are all the same.
Figure 1: Long term changes in glacier volume adapted from Cogley 2009.
It is also very important to understand that glacier changes are not only dictated by air temperature changes but also by precipitation. Therefore, there are scenarios in which warming can lead to increases in precipitation (and thus glacier ice accumulation) such as displayed in part of southwestern Norway during the 1990s (Nesje et al 2008).
The bottom line is that glacier variations are largely dependent on localized conditions but that these variations are superimposed on a clear and evident long term reduction in glacier volume which has accelerated rapidly since the 1970s.
Although Glaciologists measure year-to-year changes in glacier activity, it is the long term changes which provide the basis for statements such as "Global Glacier Recession Continues". Some Skeptics confuse these issues by cherry picking individual glaciers or by ignoring long term trends. Diversions such as these do not address the most important question of what is the real state of glaciers globally?
The answer is not only clear but it is definitive and based on the scientific literature. Globally glaciers are losing ice at an extensive rate (Figure 1). There are still situations in which glaciers gain or lose ice more than typical for one region or another but the long term trends are all the same.
Figure 1: Long term changes in glacier volume adapted from Cogley 2009.
It is also very important to understand that glacier changes are not only dictated by air temperature changes but also by precipitation. Therefore, there are scenarios in which warming can lead to increases in precipitation (and thus glacier ice accumulation) such as displayed in part of southwestern Norway during the 1990s (Nesje et al 2008).
The bottom line is that glacier variations are largely dependent on localized conditions but that these variations are superimposed on a clear and evident long term reduction in glacier volume which has accelerated rapidly since the 1970s.
For those who want to know what he actually said:
Pretty big distinction between no ice at the North Pole, and an ice-free Arctic...but then again why worry about getting facts right when your mode is to deny reality?
Ahh crap, I hope Mark Serreze, the fellow who in 2008 said here was a 50/50 chance the arctic would be ice-free that summer, isn't trying for tenure.
You fell for this garbage?
I don't think the ice has ever melted in the Arctic Walt.....have you ever seen it melt with your own eyes?
I know I have never been there to witness it, how many people actually do.
All these charts have been created by the people who want a one world government based on science fiction.
All those images of ice breaking off into the sea.....CGI....put it together man.
They make us believe it by putting negative ions into the air from big screen tv's, which effects our ability to reason.
When God returns, climatologists will be the first to burn....next will be Muslim's and then Jews.