Every school child in the world is exposed to the rantings of this genius.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, December 14, 2009 (ENS) – Snow and ice across the planet are melting much faster than anticipated, and the cryosphere – the Earth’s ice and snow cover – is very vulnerable to climate change, finds a new report presented today at the United Nations Climate Summit by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2009/2009-12-14-02.html
h/t to hauntingthelibrary and Marc Morano
Isn’t it just amazing what a 1/2 degree rise in temperature can cause…..
Just wait until we have 2, 3 or four degrees!
OK. It’s 4 degrees warmer. Then what?
Your carbon footprint is way too high. Bringing it to zero would save us all.
Foreign Minister Støre said, “We need an emergency plan for the crysosphere, with immediate measures to save as much of our ice and snow cover as possible.”
That must have been a great emergency plan. A little over a year later, the missing snow has been returned and then some.
Steve, sorry to burst your anti-science bubble but Snow and ice across the planet are melting much faster than anticipated. Denying the science and the data in favour of a few cherry picked areas and years does nothing to change the trend.
That explains the record ice extent in Antarctica, where most of the world’s sea ice is located.
Laz, what if the trend changes?
Obviously no one can predict that, but what if it does?
LAZ:
The unscientific position here is the claim that a minor slice of time represents some trend in global ice cover when they do not even take the entire globe into account because the technology is not yet available to do that. They measure less than 1% of something and claim knowledge of the whole. The only anticipation was from the Nintendo games they were playing.
For you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJ_Mz8ftqI&feature=related
What has been causing the melting?
Nasa says “…aerosols likely account for 45 percent or more of the warming that has occurred in the Arctic during the last three decades.”
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Also see this:
Ice free Arctic ocean during the Holocene
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.016
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUFMPP11A0203F
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/227
You do not understand! What you are showing is that the current Arctic ice extent is well above the Holocene average over the last 8 thousand years which would pint to a long term increase in sea ice leading to increased glaciation.
You also pointed to the 50% loss of sea ice due to wind.
Any ice loss attributed to global warming seems to be about 2 or 3% and that will decrease soon as the cooling phase becomes more evident.
Now, Now, guys, the Goracle may have been momentarily correct! Snow DOES melt quickly in Florida! And we briefly had snow in all 50 states last year as I recall. Al was merely observing that, as the interior of earth (boiling at millions of degrees) re-warmed the surface, there was a period of rapid ice loss in the tropics.
See! Science! 🙂
But the bottom line is that it is very, very senitive to AGW, thus snowcover can go up as well as down!
“melting much faster than anticipated”
This means they had their math wrong the first time, why should we assume they know anything now? I’m not an unreasonable person, I’ll concede to concrete evidence of significant AGW, but this I have yet to see.