On Monday, August the 27th 2012 the headline read “Arctic Ice Melts to record Low: US Researchers.” The New York Times rolled out “Satellites show sea ice in Arctic is at a record low.” These headlines claim this is yet another sign that man made global warming is real and is a threat to our future. Continue reading
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Art Horn: Arctic Sea Ice Record Low Is “Broken”
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Tagged arctic sea ice, climate hysteria, weather superstition
The melting Arctic shouldn’t be on the backburner
THE ARCTIC IS GETTING warmer faster than almost anywhere else on Earth. The latest evidence came in an announcement from the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center saying that, as of Aug. 26, the Arctic sea ice cover shrunk to 1.58 million square miles this summer, the smallest area since satellite measurements began in 1979. The trend is expected to continue in the next few weeks. Continue reading
History Books can Explain the Recent Record Low of Arctic Sea Ice
Recent headlines have referred to the fact that the arctic ice has melted to a record low and many are using this as evidence to support the theory of global warming. Continue reading
Pierre Gosselin: Veteran German Journalist Calls Claims Of “Unprecedented” Arctic Ice Melt “Gross Nonsense”
Veteran German journalist Ulli Kulke at his website writes about the Arctic ice melt: Never Say “Like Never Before“. German media have fallen all over themselves ringing the alarms over the “new record” – as if we have an Arctic Fukushima on our hands. Continue reading
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Fen Montaigne: Arctic Tipping Point: A North Pole Without Ice
Scientists say this year’s record declines in Arctic sea ice extent and volume are powerful evidence that the giant cap of ice at the top of the planet is on a trajectory to largely disappear in summer within a decade or two, with profound global consequences. Continue reading
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Tagged arctic sea ice, climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, weather superstition
Moonbat: Along with the Arctic ice, the rich world’s smugness will melt
The belief that Europe and America will be hit least by climate change is in ruins. Yet all we do is try to profit from disaster Continue reading
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Tagged arctic sea ice, climate hysteria, dioxycarbophobia, weather superstition
Pierre Gosselin: Oh No! Six Thousandths Of One Percent (0.006%) More Of The World’s Ice Melted This Summer!
So just how bad is the Arctic ice melt this year? Listening to the alarmists you’d think the world’s ice supply was rapidly dwindling. Continue reading
Ed Caryl: Arctic Ice Loss: Temperature Or Soot?
There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth lately about the declining Arctic Ocean ice. Pierre and I have written several articles discussing the roll of soot and dust assisting melt of both the sea ice and the land ice on Greenland and other locations around the world. Continue reading
James Taylor: Good News For Polar Bears Is Bad News for Global Warming Alarmists
Professor Susan Crockford, a zoologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Victoria, Canada, reports that polar bears have successfully adapted to severe climate change many times in the past and will likely adapt to future climate change, as well. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Endang. Species
Tagged arctic sea ice, climate hysteria, polar bears
Ice still choking Chukchi Sea as Shell oil exploration nears
As Royal Dutch Shell PLC seeks to explore for oil this summer in Alaska’s northern waters, the Arctic sea ice is melting at a record pace, breaking the record low-ice levels set in 2007, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Continue reading
Posted in Development, Oil and gas
Tagged arctic sea ice, deepwater drilling, offshore drilling
Doug L. Hoffman: Rethinking Polar Bear Evolution
A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Early Edition on-line), is shaking up science’s view of polar bear evolution. Continue reading
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Tagged arctic sea ice, climate hysteria, polar bears, weather superstition
Andy Coghlan: Hardy polar bears have survived past global warming
Actually better than I would have expected from the Nude Socialist. Certainly not good but better than expected. Continue reading
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Tagged arctic sea ice, climate hysteria, polar bears, weather superstition
Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears
Here is another big one from PNAS. Continue reading
Meanwhile, back in the virtual realm: Loss of Arctic sea ice ’70% man-made’
Study finds only 30% of radical loss of summer sea ice is due to natural variability in Atlantic – and it will probably get worse Continue reading
Polar bears originated 5 million years ago per new DNA research (Video)
New research published in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on July 23, 2012, reported a new time frame for the first emergence of polar bears as a species as being between four and five million years ago. Continue reading
Hmm: Video shows open water “in the middle of the Arctic Ocean” in the 1950s
We’re going to put up a video [1957-1958] from Ice Station Alpha, which was the first drifting ice camp in the Arctic that [polar geophysicist] Norbert Untersteiner put together. Continue reading
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Tagged arctic sea ice, climate hysteria, weather superstition
Canada’s Inuit roar in protest over move to protect polar bears
They say animal rights activists put the species at more risk than hunters who regard it as central to their livelihood Continue reading
Arctic warming linked to combination of reduced sea ice and global atmospheric warming
Really? What about the amount of summer arctic cloud? How is that factored into your “darker ocean, reduced albedo” calculations? Continue reading
Of polar bears, polemics and … “climate warming”
Elevated from comments, if you are interested in the fate of polar bears this book review is definitely for you Continue reading
More Phytoplankton Under Arctic Sea Ice Than Previously Thought
Single-celled marine organisms that turn sunlight into carbohydrates generate the ‘primary productivity’ of the seas and provide essential food for life forms higher up the food chain, from zooplankton to fish. Continue reading
