Al is still thawing out from his Antarctic meltdown trip, but not too soon for a repeat performance.
He is still in shock about Antarctica, and is now back to making up nonsense about the Arctic.
Arctic Death Spiral May 25, 2012 : 2:47 PM
Climate Central paints a scary picture:
“That’s the simple version of the story, but things look even worse when you dig into the details. For one thing, all that open water does re-freeze each winter, but it freezes into a relatively thin layer known as seasonal, or first-year ice. Because it’s so thin, first-year ice tends to melt back quickly the following season, giving the ocean a chance to warm things up even more in what National Snow and Ice Data Center director Mark Serreze has called a “death spiral” that could lead to ice-free Arctic summers by 2030.”“But it’s worse than that, says a new analysis by scientists at the U.S. Army’s Cold Regions Research Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. “First-year ice is not just thinner, ” said Donald Perovich, lead author of a report in Geophysical Research Letters, in an interview. “We’re also beginning to realize it has other properties.” The most important: new ice is less reflective than old ice, for most of the year, anyway. It absorbs more heat from the Sun, which means it doesn’t just melt faster: it actually speeds up its own melting.”
h/t to Marc Morano
Did Al and his “buddies” ever write anything about their Antarctic adventure?
Except that it DIDN’T FILL THEIR DARK SOULS WITH LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT.
-114°F in Vostok, that’ s huge, certainly the lowest I’ve ever seen. That’s got to be the benchmark for what’s big news now, we have to see -115° to really make a mega-deal about it. Of course, any temps even coming any where near this is worth pointing out.
The biggest thing of all, of course, and this a long shot beyond belief, would be to break the all time word record low temperature of -128.6deg;F.
-114° is barely a stone toss from the record, you might think. If the record is broken, say -129° is reached, that’s a top post, and there’s a day of silence around here to observe it. Maybe we put together a quick expedition of folks to jet down there so we can enjoy the chill.
It’s just fall down there. So who knows? With -114° now, then what? The thing is that I think, frankly, last year at least, it didn’t seem to get much colder down there during winter. So I really expect this -114° to be the maximum low.
And another inconvenient fact – Snow adorns the crown of Kilimanjaro, deep and crisp and even.
http://www.eturbonews.com/29410/snow-adorns-crown-kilimanjaro
Good pic. I’m at amazed at how beefy that Giraffe looks. I thought they were more Gleicky, and could be picked off easily. A healthy animal there, with legs that could pack a wallop.
Yes, Kilimanjaro is one of scores of cases where the warmists point to a regional or cyclical or seasonal phenomenon, and say “look, the sky is falling!” Also, take the arctic ice. We are coming out of the Little Ice Age, so there should be some ice melt associated with this. And there’s a regional aspect, while there may have been melt in the arctic, there’s been big gains in Antarctic sea ice, and arguably also in the Antarctic land ice. In any event, if there had been a net land ice melt of the sort that the warmist sensationalists have depicted in the media, we would have already experienced substantial sea rise. But there’s effectively no sea level rise, zilch, nil.