No, Arctic Sea Ice Is Not Disappearing

8 Responses to No, Arctic Sea Ice Is Not Disappearing

1. chick20112011 says:

   March 17, 2015 at 1:46 pm

   University of Texas at Austin, Geogphysics, Jackson School of Geosciences
   East Antarctica Melting could be Explained by Oceanic Gateways
   Posted on March 16, 2015
   “Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) in the Jackson School of Geosciences have discovered two seafloor gateways that could allow warm ocean water to reach the base of Totten Glacier, East Antarctica’s largest and most rapidly thinning glacier. The discovery, reported in the March 16 edition of the journal Nature Geoscience, probably explains the glacier’s extreme thinning and raises concerns about how it will affect sea level rise….”
   Raise the alarm!
   http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2015/03/east-antarctica-melting-could-be-explained-by-oceanic-gateways

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   • Andy Oz says:

     March 17, 2015 at 11:27 pm

     Agree 100% with raise the alarm. There is no doubt that climate change produces oceanic gateways producing this thinning which is “the new normal” in Antarctica which causes record sea ice extent which……wait…..
     http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png

     Whatever!
     It’s “the new normal”! Period.
     Ignore everything else.
     Alarmists of the world – Unite and Raise the Alarm!
     😀

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2. Gail Combs says:

   March 17, 2015 at 2:12 pm

   Seems they have to shift focus to another area of the Antarctic.
   UT researchers find geothermal heat is causing Antarctic glacier to melt

   “Thwaites isn’t just any glacier,” Blankenship said. “It is the one glacier in the world that everybody believes has the most potential to raise the sea levels quickly….

   According to Blankenship, tectonic shifts spanning more than 100 million years have forced the Earth’s crust to lift, creating unusual levels of volcanic activity that are heating the 13,000-foot thick glacier. While the average heat flow is less than 65 milliwatts per square meter on the rest of the continents, heat currents underneath Thwaites Glacier have peaked at 200 milliwatts per square meter.

   Remember the Antarctic is surrounded by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that keeps it in the Deep Freeze by not allowing equatorial waters to circulate near the continent. The Opening of Drake Passage and the resulting formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is thought to have caused the Ice Age we are now in.

   So about that ‘warm water’?
   Huge Underwater Volcanoes Discovered Near Antarctica
   http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/017/932/i02/antarctic-subsea-volcanoes-110712-02.jpg
   Newly-discovered volcanoes. The peak in the foreground is thought to be the most active, with eruptions in the past few years.

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3. Gail Combs says:

   March 17, 2015 at 2:19 pm

   So what about the Arctic?
   Hot times near Svalbard – Volcanic range discovered

   ..Researchers have found a 1,500 km volcanic mountain chain hidden off the coast of Svalbard, which could soon break the surface to form a new island chain.

   Dag Rune Olsen, rector of the University of Bergen, where the researchers are based, told The Local that the findings were like a “moon landing in the deep sea.”

   “We probably know even less about the very deep seas and oceans then we know about the moon,” he said. The range extends from Jan Mayen island in the Greenland Sea to the Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland. It comprises hundreds of volcanos, some just 20m below the surface….

   Arctic Volcanoes Found Active at Unprecedented Depths: Buried under thick ice and frigid water, volcanic explosions are shaking the Arctic Ocean floor at depths previously thought impossible, according to a new study….

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   • stewartpid says:

     March 17, 2015 at 9:30 pm

     Gail this is funny …the “new” ridge is in my 1990 vintage National Geographic atlas of the world on the Arctic Ocean page … labeled and everything … they didn’t have to do too much research to find this bad boy 😉

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     • Gail Combs says:

       March 17, 2015 at 9:52 pm

       Shows how ‘scientific’ these dudes are.

       The first thing I did out of college was literature searches for the R&D dept as well as analytical QC work since I can read scientific French and German even if I butcher the languages if I try to speak them.

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4. Andy Oz says:

   March 17, 2015 at 11:35 pm

   I recommend that CAGW Skeptics gather together, and hold a wake celebrating the life and death of the Death Spiral, perhaps in DC at the ICCC2015. There should be much drinking, laughter at how silly it was, and how many numpties got sucked in by it.

   Can we all bow our heads and have moment of silent prayer for the passing of the Death Spiral.

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5. Andy Oz says:

   March 18, 2015 at 12:23 am

   NASA announces we are doomed because some ice melted since 1979. Claire Parkinson, the latest NASA alarmist mouthpiece, announced the world has shed 1,260,000 sq km’s since 1979. Cherry picking at its finest. Meanwhile in the real world.
   http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/iphone/images/iphone.anomaly.global.png

   http://www.scar.org/2015/718-global-sea-ice-diminishing-despite-antarctic-gains
   17 March 2015:

   Sea ice increases in Antarctica do not make up for the accelerated Arctic sea ice loss of the last decades, a new NASA study finds. As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometres) since 1979.

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