Back when the sea was thick and lasted for years, cyclones tended to spread the ice out and actually increase its extent, said Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Now, when ice gets spread out, it simply breaks up and disappears.
“As our ice cover has thinned, some of our old rules are changing,” said Stroeve.
Summer cyclone chewing up Canada’s Arctic sea ice | CTV News
This year’s cyclone spread the ice out and increased its extent.
Headed away from Pond Inlet, turning into the bay.
July 10, 2011
The United States “is within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda,” newly appointed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Saturday.
“I think we have them on the run.
New Defense Secretary Panetta: We have al Qaeda ‘on the run’ – CNN.com
Two years later
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In case you doubted that the US has been taken over by hard core lunatics and criminals.
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It never occurred to the fascists to make a friendly phone call?
Can you figure out why Arctic ice melt has been so slow this summer? The graph below provides a very subtle hint.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The ice is melting slowly because :
The erratic climate of Australia, alternating between drought and flood, has caused all intelligent life forms in Canberra to go extinct.
The Huffington Post North Pole swimming pool has been closed, but the ice skating season is now in full swing.
Caution : It is all thin, rotten, decayed ice.
World War Two
I must have missed World War 1998 – the hottest year ever (after data tampering.)
