“The overall trend is downward, and it will continue to do so,” Mark Serreze was quoted saying. Serreze is director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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Gaia told him the future, no doubt. Unfortunately the permanent drought knocked their website offline.
What happened to his face?
It’s called ‘Devolution’. Reverting back to Chimp ancestors. 🙂
Saving the planet is a bitch.
LOL. Sweet God. Somebody has much bigger problems than arctic ice.
A living tribute to 50 years of LSD consumption.
Looks like he’s had a personal drought of basic hygiene.
He looks like a Gaia high priest. Bacteria love him.
The same guy who in 2010 said the Bering Sea ice was just a fluke.
Do any of these Gaia worshipers (Sereeze, Nuttercelli etc etc etc) EVER ‘celebrate’ or convey a slight positive response to the fact that ‘mother nature’ is showing very very positive climate results (in terms of the reversal of what AGW hypothesis tells us) ?
ie. The lack of any atmospheric warming for past 17 years, Arctic ice massive bounce-back, Antarctic growth, oceans not warming since 2003 etc etc
No, they don’t. And more disturbingly, these positive, heathy indicators are like literal kryptonite to them. They HATE good news and write BS reports and articles to negate any positive observations, then default to what the flawed models tell us about the guaranteed BBQ’d future that our grandkids will inherit !?
Therefore one can only conclude – they don’t care about science or the environment. They only care about imposing draconian climate policy on us all and taking away our (and their) freedoms.
If I saw that guy walking down the street saying the end is near, I’d think he was crazy. His sitting in a chair doesn’t change my mind.
What, is the prophet wearing pajamas? Why is it that the biggest proponents of
global warmingclimate change are either extreme leftists or new age nut cases, or both?Yes, we “latch onto” the huge increase in Arctic ice, because the warmist bullshitters maintained that by now the Arctic would be ice free, instead idiotic yachters from across the globe have been frozen solid in the ice as they believed the warmist loons and thought it would be easy sailing. This is a great article on the global cooling with awesome August 2012 / August 2013 comparison Arctic pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html
And we also “latch onto” the point made by The Economist: “The mismatch between rising greenhouse-gas emissions and not-rising temperatures [15 year temperature stall] is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now.”
And we “latch onto” to the fact that ALL the climate models have done a complete belly flop and the models always have been little more than worthless propaganda. As The Daily Mail puts it: “The pause – which has now been accepted as real by every major climate research centre – is important, because the models’ predictions of ever-increasing global temperatures have made many of the world’s economies divert billions of pounds into ‘green’ measures to counter climate change. Those predictions now appear gravely flawed.” And we “latch onto” to the fact that ALL the fear mongering Chicken Littles’ predictions of doom… have also failed miserably.
“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” -Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC
“Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” -Noel Brown, ex UNEP Director, 1989
“By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world [with exceptions] will be in famine.” -Professor Peter Gunter, Earth Day 1970
“Winter with strong frosts and lots of snow.. will [in just a few years] cease to exist at our latitudes.” -Mojib Latif, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, 2000 (instead: record levels of snow hit Germany and Europe in 2103)
That is a fantastic American Bison shirt. 1960’s collectors item!!!
My missus reckons I have zero fashion sense but I think it suits him.
Makes him look like there are a few bison loose in the top paddock!
(i.e.: he is a bit crazy)
That’s his buffalo shirt that he uses to buffalo people.
http://www.chacha.com/question/what-does-it-mean-to-get-buffaloed
“Serreze is director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.”
The pathetic thing is we pay his salary, which I’m sure is in 6 figures.
Our government is so full of old hippies from the 60s, it’s pathetic. No wonder we’re going so far left.
The predictive powers of the expert –
11 December 2006
Arctic clear for summer sailing by 2040 – Models predict rapid decline of sea ice.
“The recovery in autumn is no longer what it once was,” says Mark Serreze, a sea ice expert with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder. “What we’re starting to see now is that we’re losing ice on both ends of the seasons.”
Serreze notes that while climate model predictions vary on timescales for the disappearance of summer sea ice, “these climate models are in near universal agreement that as the climate warms in response to greenhouse gas loading, we’re going to lose the Arctic sea ice cover.”
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061211/full/news061211-1.html
Dec 12, 2007
“The Arctic is screaming,” said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo.
Just last year, two top scientists surprised their colleagues by projecting that the Arctic sea ice was melting so rapidly that it could disappear entirely by the summer of 2040.
This week, after reviewing his new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”
from http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/12/12/arctic_ice_melt_spurs_a_dire_new_warning/
and
Its research scientist Dr Mark Serreze was asked to give one of the main lectures here at this year’s AGU Fall Meeting.
Discussing the possibility for an open Arctic ocean in summer months, he told the meeting: “A few years ago, even I was thinking 2050, 2070, out beyond the year 2100, because that’s what our models were telling us. But as we’ve seen, the models aren’t fast enough right now; we are losing ice at a much more rapid rate.
“My thinking on this is that 2030 is not an unreasonable date to be thinking of.”
from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7139797.stm
April 27, 2008
“There is this thin first-year ice even at the North Pole at the moment,” says Serreze. “This raises the spectre – the possibility that you could become ice free at the North Pole this year.”
“Even if you lost only half of the first-year ice this year – which would be average – you are still in for a very low ice extent this summer,” says Serreze.
from http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4728737&page=1
June 27, 2008
“From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water,” said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.
“The issue is that, for the first time that I am aware of, the North Pole is covered with extensive first-year ice – ice that formed last autumn and winter. I’d say it’s even-odds whether the North Pole melts out,” said Dr Serreze.
This meant that about 70 per cent of the sea ice present this spring was single-year ice formed over last winter. Scientists predict that at least 70 per cent of this single-year ice – and perhaps all of it – will melt completely this summer, Dr Serreze said.
“Indeed, for the Arctic as a whole, the melt season started with even more thin ice than in 2007, hence concerns that we may even beat last year’s sea-ice minimum. We’ll see what happens, a great deal depends on the weather patterns in July and August,” he said.
From http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-scientists-warn-that-there-may-be-no-ice-at-north-pole-this-summer-855406.html
June 5, 2009
“The downward trend in September sea ice extent seems to be accerating. That reflects the combination of three things:
1. Spring is increasingly dominated by thin, first-year ice prone to melting out in summer;
2. As the thin ice now starts to melt out earlier in summer, the albedo feedback is stronger meaning even more summer melt;
3. Arctic is warming in all seasons, meaning that recovery through a series of cold years is becoming less and les likely. Take these three together, and you are probably looking at ice-fee summers by 2030. I’d call that a death sprital.”
from http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/06/05/204201/nsidc-director-serreze-death-spiral-arctic-ice-wattsupwiththat/#13791277009741&action=collapse_widget&id=4850991
September 16, 2011
“In 2007, one of the big reasons we got to a record low is because we essentially had a near-perfect weather pattern that pumped a lot of warm air into the Arctic,” Serreze says.
Unusually cloud-free skies hastened the melting, and wind patterns made the ice prone to disappear. Serreze says this year’s melt was nearly as bad, but without the extreme weather.
“That’s telling us that sea ice is really in trouble,” he says. “The ice is so thin now that it just can’t take a hit in summer anymore.”
That’s setting up a vicious cycle. There’s no question that the Arctic Ocean will freeze up again over the fall and winter, but there’s less and less really thick ice building back up year to year.
“Come next spring, we’re just going to have a lot of thin ice that formed over the autumn and winter. That’s the stuff that melts out easily the next summer,” Serreze says. “So there’s a feedback at work here, and that feedback is getting stronger with time.”
From http://www.npr.org/2011/09/16/140516890/arctic-ice-hits-near-record-low-threatening-wildlife
August 21st, 2012
“I don’t think the big storm that we have earlier this month had much of an effect,” said Mark Serreze, the NSIDC director. “The rapid loss of ice we’ve seen over the past few weeks has been in the East Siberian Sea (north of Eastern Siberia) and this ice was already posed to melt out, with or without a storm.”
Instead of the storm, Serreze pointed to the long-term thinning of the sea ice cover as the most likely culprit for this year’s precipitous decline in sea ice cover, since thinner sea ice is far more susceptible to melting during the summer months.
“While we still get plenty of ice growth during autumn and winter, the ice cover that we have in spring is thinner than it used to be,” Serreze said. “It has gotten so thin now that large areas completely melt out in summer. We no longer need a “boost” from weather patterns favoring summer ice melt like we saw in 2007.”
From http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-record-now-could-be-set-in-august-14852
Sep 19, 2012
Projections made from climate models all predict that global warming should impact Arctic sea ice first and most intensely, Serreze said. “We have known for many years that as the Earth started to warm up, the effects would be seen first in the Arctic and not the Antarctic. The physical geography of the two hemispheres is very different. Largely as a result of that, they behave very differently.”
The Arctic, an ocean surrounded by land, responds much more directly to changes in air and sea-surface temperatures than Antarctica, Serreze explained. The climate of Antarctica, land surrounded by ocean, is governed much more by wind and ocean currents. Some studies indicate climate change has strengthened westerly winds in the Southern Hemisphere, and because wind has a cooling effect, scientists say this partly accounts for the marginal increase in sea ice levels that have been observed in the Antarctic in recent decades.
“Another reason why the sea-ice extent in the Antarctic is remaining fairly high is, interestingly, the ozone hole,” Serreze told Life’s Little Mysteries. This hole was carved out over time by chlorofluorocarbons, toxic chemicals formerly that were used in air conditioners and solvents before being banned. “The ozone hole affects the circulation of the atmosphere down there. Because of the ozone hole, the stratosphere above Antarctica is quite cold. Ozone in the stratosphere absorbs UV light, and less absorption [by] ozone makes the stratosphere really cold. This cold air propagates down to the surface by influencing the atmospheric circulation in the Antarctic, and that keeps the sea ice extensive.”
The extent of Arctic sea ice at its summertime low point has dropped 40 percent in the past three decades. The idea that a tiny Antarctic ice expansion makes up for this — that heat is merely shifting from the the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern and therefore global warming must not be happening — is “just nonsense,” Serreze said.
From http://www.livescience.com/23333-antarctic-sea-ice-global-warming.html
September 20, 2012
“We are now in uncharted territory,” said NSIDC Director Mark Serreze. “While we’ve long known that as the planet warms up, changes would be seen first and be most pronounced in the Arctic, few of us were prepared for how rapidly the changes would actually occur. While lots of people talk about opening of the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic islands and the Northern Sea Route along the Russian coast, twenty years from now from now in August you might be able to take a ship right across the Arctic Ocean.”
From http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/09/20/885601/earths-attic-is-on-fire-arctic-sea-ice-bottoms-out-at-new-record-low/#13791329163131&action=collapse_widget&id=8217569
This guy is a true Looney Toon.
Is there a way that we can challenge the government to fire him ?
What recourse is there for us to fight back through legal action.
Those quote are the ones that took me about an hour to find. There are so very many more. And yes he’s a true Looney Toon
Challenge the government to fire him? Unfortunately that likelihood is thinner than the ice he imagines is left at the Arctic. He does after-all carry the government’s requirement of keeping the populous in fear.
Somewhere a caveman exhibit is missing a dummy.
I saw Serreze speak at a CERES event on arctic ice decline last winter at CU (the University of Colorado at Boulder). He and several others at NSIDC are convinced of this continuing and continuous decline.
But during Q&A when the topic of other Cassandras on climate came up, Gore was beyond the pale! – but James Hansen? This idiot [my term] was still useful to the cause [my term again – not his]. Despite the only difference between them being highest educational level attained.
He is a total Hippie.
He was ‘totally’ for the Smoking Ban in Boulder and ‘totally’ for the Pot Legalization ref.!!
But the jammies are cool…..Mmmmmmmm…Buffalo…..at the Denver Buffalo Company……good meat!!