Arctic : Worse Than We Thought

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/

You can see the “blinding white cover” in the Barrow webcam image. Note that bright sunlight is beating down on the ice and melting it.

http://seaice.alaska.edu/gi/observatories/barrow_webcam

The wicked heat in Barrow is the result of this melting.

http://www.wunderground.com/

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12 Responses to Arctic : Worse Than We Thought

  1. Tony Duncan says:

    Steve,

    according to the article the study was not based on data solely from the middle of winter in just one year.

    “Flanner and his colleagues measured ice and snow between 1979 and 2008. They found that ice and snow in the Northern Hemisphere are now reflecting on average 3.3 watts of solar energy per square meter back to space, a reduction of 0.45 watts per square meter over three decades.”

    Do you have information that contradicts this?

  2. Tony Duncan says:

    So what is the Delta between Arctic and Antarctic ice and snow cover?

  3. Nobama says:

    Apparently, that 0.45W translates into 49 states of snowcover. ….strangely similar to the late 70’s.

    …. would that be a contradiction?

    …but I’m sure, with their ouija board and a fog machine… they can explain it….

  4. Paul H says:

    Any truly objective scientist would want to put this into some sort of perspective by examining long term trends and cycles, not to mention offset in the Antarctic.

    The fact that they don’t seem to have done so must weaken their credibility.

  5. Paul H says:

    “Mark Flanner found that the warming effect of the loss of snow and ice is “substantially larger” than was predicted in the estimates of 18 climate models.”

    Given that global temps have been unchanged for 15 yrs or so, if the above assumption is correct, then some other factor must be cooling the earth.

  6. slimething says:

    Why is ocean heat content dropping in the Arctic?

    • Mike Davis says:

      Because it is warming up! Donchaknow! Cooling oceans mean Global warming!!!!! A 2C 5X5 grid of warm water off sets 95% of the oceans being 4C below normal

    • BioBob says:

      Do you think a climate scientist would stoop to actually measure something and find out ? Nah, they have MODELS with all the answers so they don’t have to get cold, wet and possibly die.

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