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, were 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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Maybe Point Barrow, Alaska will become a popular beach resort. Move over, Waikiki!
uh oh... Teresa....he’s been sniffing ketchup again...
Hillary served two (unelected) terms as president, and yet hell did not freeze over.
He was an admiral in the Cambodian Navy.
LOL..perhaps Kerry and his dingbat harem there should be sent to the Gulf to suck it all up with a straw.
I see five boobs.
LOL!
Good. Once the ice is gone it will be easier to drill for oil. ;>)
The earth, this small rock that is lost in space, has been changing from it’s beginning. It will continue to change until it’s gone ... and there’s not a damn thing that we can do about it.
The arrogance of man never ceases to amaze me.
When you know a rainstorm is coming. rather than waste time thinking that you can stop the storm, it is better to learn to dance in the rain.
Okay, I’m getting too ‘out there’, so I’ll shut up and help my wife pack for our weekend camping trip. I wonder... will we celebrate the sunshine or find ourselves..... dancing in the rain?
He’s certainly way beyond his “use by” date. He was already over ripe, swelling and smelling in the ‘70s.
John Kerry is the new Al Gore...massage therapists beware.
I predict a Kerry Free Massachusetts in the same period
Genghis Khan is stealing it for iced tea.
and perhaps that is why Thurston Howell Kerry is provisioning a new $7 millon dollar yacht in boat-tax free Rhode Island- to make an ice free passage to the Pacific.
didn’t Ted Danson predict this would happen by 1993?
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