The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history.
But to climate change scientists it is yet another sign of the damage global warming is inflicting on the planet.
Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist, described the images as an ‘historic event’ – but warned they added to fears that the Arctic icecap has entered a ‘death spiral’.
The North Pole becomes an ‘island’ for the first time in history as ice melts | Mail Online
Apparently human history is less than 15,000 years.
“Examination of several proxy records (e.g., sediment cores) of sea ice indicate ice-free or near ice-free summer conditions for at least some time during the period of 15,000 to 5,000 years ago”
Polar Bears can’t survive without ice, and that is why they have been extinct for 5,000 years.
roundly disproven
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007v18p
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379110001691
“minimal sea ice during the last deglacial (16–11 ka) and early Holocene thermal maximum (11–5 ka)”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018200001310
“During the short climatic optima at the onset of interglacial periods, the winter sea-ice extent was distinctly reduced.”
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1007984617675?LI=true
“Diatom concentrations in the sediments increased by two orders of magnitude in this century, with major increases in the 1920s and 1950s. The increase in varve thickness and diatom abundance coincides with an increase in summer melt percentage in an ice core from the Devon Island Ice Cap”
So, it’s a Guam-like island?