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Posted on 07/23/2010 8:46:40 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Sen. Kerry Predicts ‘Ice-Free Arctic' In '5 or 10 Years’ Friday, July 23, 2010 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – Speaking at a town hall-style meeting promoting climate change legislation on Thursday, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) predicted there will be “an ice-free Arctic” in five to 10 years..
“The arctic ice is disappearing faster than was predicted,” Kerry said. “And instead of waiting until 2030 or whenever it was to have an ice-free Arctic, we’re going to have one in five or 10 years.”
However, the Web site of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says: “Using the observed 2007/2008 summer sea ice extents as a starting point, computer models predict that the Arctic could be nearly sea ice free in summertime within 30 years.”
NOAA cites as its source on Arctic sea ice a study published in the April 3, 2009 edition of Geophysical Research Letters by J.E. Overland and Muyin Wang. (Overland works for NOAA at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Wang is at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, in Seattle.)
In their study, Overland and Wang “predict an expected value for a nearly sea ice free Arctic in September by the year 2037.” They also note in their summary, however, that “a sea ice free Arctic in September may occur as early as the late 2020s” based on their analysis of six computer models.
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We need a pic of Teresa’s new yacht for her boytoy.
He’s full of crap, but maybe an ice free arctic would be a good thing. He doesn’t know.
He’ll be able to sail his 76’ yacht from Newport to San Fran via the North West.
Must be jealous of all the money Al Gore has been making off of green-pimping.
THIS would be FANTASTIC and should be encouraged. It would open up the famed “Northwest Passage” saving thousands of shipping miles and making the Chinese controlled Panama Canal obsolete!! MELT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And only in the Summer, the ice cap will continue to freeze solid in Winter, no matter.
I predict a Kerry Free Senate in 5 to 10 years. Any bets my forecast is more accurate than Senator Kerry’s (who by the way served in Viet Nam)?
Ice-Free Arctic?
That just gives him more places to hide his yacht from taxes.
We should raise a million dollars and bet Senator Kerry (who served in Vietnam). He’d have to save the allowance the “widow Heinz” gives him.
John Boy is way past being ready for the rubber room.
And avoid taxes all the while!
The Ketchup Gigolo can use his new yacht to sail the Arctic. How can this be a bad thing?
No problem, the ice is building up so fast in the Antarctic that it’ll soon reach to Rhode Island where Kerry keeps his yacht to avoid Mass. taxes.
No problem, the ice is building up so fast in the Antarctic that it’ll soon reach to Rhode Island where Kerry keeps his yacht to avoid Mass. taxes.
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