Arctic sea ice extent declined from 1979-2007, but since then the trend has been flat.
In 2008, Obama healed the planet.
He isn’t getting proper credit for this however from NASA, who predicted the Arctic would be ice-free several years ago.
“Summer Arctic sea ice extent is shrinking by 12.2% per decade due to warmer temperatures.”
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent | Vital Signs – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet
“The Modesto Bee Wed, Dec 12, 2007 -Page 3
“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 by the summer of 2040,
A blip or an ominous sign?
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.”
Dec 12, 2007, page 3 – The Modesto Bee at Newspapers.com
“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon, “I’he Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.”
Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer,
Longtime global warming skeptic Sen, James Inhofe, R-Okla , citing a recent poll, said in a statement, “Hansen, (former Vice President) Gore and the media have been trumpeting man-made climate doom since the 1980s, But Americans are not buying it.”
But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, said, “Dr. Hansen was right, ‘Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”
June 24, 2008
