Mark C. Serreze says:
Looking back at earlier posts, a few things caught my eye which I might be able to clarify:
1) The north pole issue: Back in June, there was some coverage about the possibility of the North Pole being ice free by the end of this summer. This was based on recognition that the area around the north pole was covered by firstyear ice that tends to be rather thin. Thin ice is the most vulnerable to melting our in summer. I gave it a 50/50 chance. Looks like I’ll lose my own bet and Santa Claus will be safe for another year. There was indeed some coverage a some years back of an open north pole (and I was interviewed). This opening, however, was pretty clearly causes by unusual winds breaking up this ice, and not from melting out.
The reason he made that prediction is because the ice was very thin that summer. No one made any predictions like that this year, because the ice is much thicker. That is why I think PIOMAS is completely FOS. They claim that the ice is half as thick as 2008.
Ol sleazy serreze says a lot of crap ; and that is the value you get from listening to him . I doubt he has ever made an accurate prediction .
That is the key. 😉
Serreze is an Ehrlich wanna be. He has a lot of work ahead of him to match the epic stench of failed predictions amassed by the one and only Paul Ehrlich.
“That is why I think PIOMAS is completely FOS”
That should bring them out of the woodwork. Another 150 comment post?
Yep. 😉
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Is this girl a Republican? Black woman kickin some Obama ass!
4 minute video from just a few hours ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Cbvewaa7g
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/711490_atmos_recent.html
The real shock is that Santa obviously fooled everybody with some radar muddling technology – while they were tracking him to the Arctic he was really heading south – only a fool would build upon the sand or the sea-ice.
He’s safely ensconced among all the penguins.
The pole will be ice free, long before we reach the 0 km² that Steven Godfdard thinks we have to reach, to speak of an ice free arctic.
even at 1000000 km² there is a pretty high chance of the pole being ice free for some time.
your assumptions about the thickness of ice are not founded on any facts. you are just making it up, in contradiction to all evidence we have.
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