Learning To Think Like A Climate Expert

8 Responses to Learning To Think Like A Climate Expert

1. Ken Gregory says:

   December 17, 2013 at 12:46 am

   Question: What year of the 21st century had the greatest annual average global sea ice area?

   Answer: 2013, which is the only year with a global average anomaly above the 1979-2008 average.
   http://friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/GlobalSeaIceArea.jpg

   Year Anomaly
   2000 -0.026
   2001 -0.136
   2002 -0.588
   2003 -0.040
   2004 -0.064
   2005 -0.641
   2006 -1.019
   2007 -1.149
   2008 -0.368
   2009 -0.452
   2010 -0.681
   2011 -1.359
   2012 -0.905
   2013 0.058

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   • X says:

     December 17, 2013 at 1:32 am

     Thanks. It’d be nice if we could have an extended version of this graph showing what happened in previous periods similar to present, like the 1930’s up to 1952, to better estimate the recovery of the Arctic ice.

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2. Ken Gregory says:

   December 17, 2013 at 1:46 am

   Here is the graph from 1979
   http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
   Here is the digital data
   http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

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3. Sundance says:

   December 17, 2013 at 1:48 am

   One would think that with all the fasting Yeb and his followers are doing that there would be less gravitation pull in the Philippines and therefore lower sea level.

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4. bobmaginnis says:

   December 17, 2013 at 1:59 am

   Climate experts believe that huge amounts of ice are melting in Antarctica at -30C….? No, but if you would like an explanation:
   PASADENA, Calif. – Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent’s ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.
   http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/jun/HQ_13-183_Melting_Ice_Shelves.html
   Graph form of webpage map showing rising sea level:
   http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/fileadmin/images/news/indic/msl/MSL_Serie_ALL_Global_IB_RWT_GIA_Adjust.png

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5. Lance says:

   December 17, 2013 at 3:32 am

   co2 has magical powers…!!

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   • harrydhuffman (@harrydhuffman) says:

     December 17, 2013 at 4:35 pm

     It’s probably not magic…just simple teleportation (“Downwelling’s not working! Beam the heat down, Scotty!”).

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6. Morgan Wright says:

   December 17, 2013 at 10:40 am

   Environmental scientists have an average IQ of 87 so I don’t listen to them anymore

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