Global sea ice area is above normal. This is because :
- Global warming and polar amplification is really kicking in
- The missing heat is forcing cold water to the surface
- CO2 is raising the freezing point of water
- It is all rotten ice
- PIOMAS predicted this
- Bette Midler warned that this would happen
- Manhattan is underwater
- It is really cold at the poles
- Fossil fuel divestment on college campuses
- Australia’s carbon tax
Sometimes my food freezes in the main compartment of my fridge when I stuff it way in the back. It’s not because it’s warmer or more moist back there, it’s because it’s too fvcking cold back there. Number 8 duh.
“It should be understood by anyone professing an interest in climatology that the object of study has been around longer than man and the climate here has varied radically in the last 40 million years. In the Eocene carbon dioxide levels were several times higher than they are currently. The temperature was quite compatible with life from pole to pole. Until we can understand that, or how Earth moved from there to the Miocene, then the Pliocene and then the Holocene, each with its own climate, flora and fauna, we have no good reason to think we understand climate. To make predictions about what follows from here and when, and to audaciously begin the discussion by implicating our humble species in the whole thing is worse than audacious, it’s pathetic.” – Kary Mullis (1993 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry)
Appreciated and posted this quote on FB, Thanks!
Great quote.
What an incredible hatchet job on this guy on wikipedia…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kary_Mullis
11. Obama healed the planet, while golfing.
while golfing to smoke… that’s why he still needs to chew nicorette gum at prayer breakfasts…
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/02/07/obama-appears-sleepy-chews-nicorette-prayer-breakfast/
If he starts golfing more frequently in Colorado, we’ll know that he also still prefers smoking that other newly legal substance. The wife seems to like Colorado too…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103173/Just-weeks-17-day-Hawaii-holiday-Michelle-Obama-takes-daughters-ski-trip-Aspen.html
Colorado, now it’s truly a rocky mountain HIGH !
This quiz is too easy.
#6 is definately the answer. ;^)
12. The normal is too low and needs adjustment.
13. Obama healed the planet while Skeet Shooting. The holes he shot in the CO2 let the heat get back out.
I suppose they would say that sea ice is variable on shorter time scales and it fluctuates a lot around the mean, but the overall trend is heading down.
Steve forgot the Gore effect:
After Al’s visit to see Antarctica melting of course it was going to set a record sea ice extent.
14. Al Gore hasn’t been to the arctic recently.
After the AlGore visit to the Antarctic to see it melting away, the ice extent there set a record.
I think, to quote NSIDC, it’s all first year ice and it will suddenly melt away in the spring.
/sarc
Apparently it has been for 3 years:
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/2009-shock-news-all-multi-year-ice-is-gone/
I’ll come back this September when the Arctic is ice-free.
14. Shroedingers Cat did it.
If they look the Arctic Ice is there, if they don’t look the Arctic Ice is not there.
15. The earthworms did it.