David Barber, Canada’s Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, said the ice was melting at an extraordinarily fast rate. “We are almost out of multiyear sea ice in the northern hemisphere,” he said in a presentation in Parliament.
Good call.
The North Pole is melting.
The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate.
The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago.
Here are some humans who saw it in 1959, which is less than 50 million years ago.
17 March 1959
Since 1960, CO2 has been increasing exponentially (red dots.) GISS is looking a bit flaccid however, and hasn’t shown any warming for the past decade.
There is no mystery or guesswork about the cause of recent global warming – it can be directly measured. Satellites observe less radiation escaping to space at those exact wavelengths that carbon dioxide absorbs radiation. Less heat escaping to space means more heat returning to Earth and this is confirmed by surface measurements.
Currently, Greenland is losing 300 billion tonnes of ice a year. Over the same period, Arctic sea ice has been thinning and melting, glaciers have been shrinking at an accelerating rate and seasons are shifting due to warming temperatures.
There is no mystery or guesswork that Cook is clueless. There hasn’t been any recent warming, despite Romm’s “super-exponential” growth in CO2 over the last decade.
Temperatures have been rising more slowly than Hansen’s low-emissions scenario C. Can these clowns please give it a rest?
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
By Bill Plaschke
June 25, 2011, 10:15 p.m.It was imperfectly odd. It was strangely unsettling. It was uniquely American.
On a balmy early Saturday summer evening, the U.S soccer team played for a prestigious championship in a U.S. stadium … and was smothered in boos.
And, yes, when the U.S. team was announced one final time, it was once again booed.
“We’re not booing the country, we’re booing the team,” Sanchez said. “There is a big difference.”
Yea, right.
