Posted on 01/09/2012 2:08:41 PM PST by jda
The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and, in some places, the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.
Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points, well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelt, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
Within a few years, it is predicted that, due to the ice melt, the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.
Well it’s about time.
Prove that climate change is man made, and we can talk.
Brilliantly done.
At least the 1922 scientists can claim lack of education, data, and experience.
Oh, forgot, Gore can also claim lack of education, data, and experience.
Never mind.
Patent BULLSHIT in 1922...even worse now.
I thought Obama was going to stop the seas from rising with a wave of his mighty hand?
Not another Obama failure, surely?
“Within a few years, it is predicted that, due to the ice melt, the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable.”
They might have gotten this part right.
Hilarious....
I may have to think about buying a winter home in the Artic..for the warm weather.
That’s awesome.
I thought the date was 40,000 years ago, and they were writing about what was happening right here in Central Indiana! Or maybe around 900 A.D. when Leif Erickson was starting cattle ranches in Greenland.
Regardless, the one thing I still haven’t heard from all of the scenarios of Arctic ice melting, how is this a bad thing? Think of all the new oil fields where we could drill!
Well, he has held it off, retroactively anyway, for the past 90 years. What more do you expect of him? </sarcasm>
Give or take a billion years or two depending upon what the sun does.
You know why they didn’t mention the poor polar bears, there were hardly any of them around at that time.
They might have gotten this part right.
James Hansen was using that lie about 25 years ago to scare people and predicted the highway along the shore of Manhattan Island of New York City would be underwater years before now. The highway is still there and nowhere near to being threatened with the flooding predicted by Hansen.
The fact is that the sea levels have normally been much higher than they are at present. Sea levels have been increasing because they were far lower during the recent glacial periods than they have been for most of the last 2.2 billion years when there was another extraordinary ice age that covered most of the Earth in an icecap. Ice ages have been very rare in the Earth's past, and most of the time in which they occurred was before life had colonized the land surfaces of the continents and before there were any trees or forests. Even when one of the rare ice ages occurred, they usually resulted in an icecap in the Antarctic, but it almost never resulted in an icecap in the Arctic. In other words, the Arctic has very rarely had an icecap whether or not an ice age was occurring.
The current ice age we currently live in is one of the most rare exceptions in the Earth's past, where conditions resulted in an icecap that grew large enough at maximum extent to move its edges as far south as the temperate latitudes and then retreat towards the Arctic Circle. Even during this very rare ice age, the Arctic Sea has been ice free far longer than it has been covered by ice. Consequently, much of the water currently frozen into the cryosphere today used to be in the oceans and the atmosphere, making the Earth's sea levels higher than they are today.
The Earth's sea levels fell to more than 400 feet lower than they are today, because the Earth's extraordinarily cold ice age conditions in the maximum extents of the recent glacial periods locked the water into the cryosphere. For about the last 10,000 to 12,000 years, the Earth has been in a warmer inter-glacial period between the longer and colder glacial periods. During the warming of this inter-glacial period, the icecap has been melting away and the sea levels have been rising with the return of the meltwater into the seas. The inter-glacial period warming has not yet restored the normal ice free conditions in the Arctic Sea, yet the next glacial period in the current ice age can be expected to resume anytime in the next year to several thousands of years. Past reversals from inter-glacial warmth to glacial cold climate conditions occurred in a startlingly short time of only years or decades. Such reversals of climate into renewed glacial periods were usually preceded by contradictory periods of extraordinary warmth. It is therefore to be expected for the sea levels to rise until such time as there is a reversal into the next glacial period, when the icecaps grow again and the sea levels fall as the water is locked into those icecaps of the cryosphere.
Sometime in the next million or millions of years, the current ice age will end, and the sea levels will rise as the Arctic icecaps disappear back into the seas and the atmosphere. The chances of the Earth experiencing another ice age some tens of millions of years later are highly doubtful. By that time, the Earth's loss of atmosphere to outer space and the Sun's constantly increasing size and luminosity will result in the Earth remaining warm. Ultimately in the following hundreds of millions of years the enlarging Sun cause the Earth to lose its cryosphere, hydrosphere, upper surfaces of the lithosphere, and finally its atmosphere. The burnt out Earth's orbit will increase in size and move the Earth outwards in the Solar System into a new orbit in the vicinity of where Mars is today, the vastly swollen red Sun's outer atmosphere will consume Mercury, Venus and may nearly consume the Earth.
The Arctic Sea is destined to naturally refreeze and to naturally remelt. Humans cannot do anything to significantly prevent either the refreezing or the remelting of the Arctic Sea. The sea levels will naturally fluctuate in response to the naturally fluctuating cryosphere. In the last decade, the sea levels have slowed their rise and entered a period where they remain stable or even slightly decreased. This latest change suggests the Earth's cryosphere has stopped the post-glacial period melting for awhile and is currently growing and locking up water into the ice. The Sun in the last decade entered into a rare lull in activity. This kind of Solar minimum has presaged a mini-ice age period lasting decades to centuries during previous such events in the last millenia. The Delaware River froze during George Washington's Continental Army crossing it during the Revolutionary War, and New York Harbor froze so freight wagons crossed its frozen ice to Staten Island in the 17th Century. It is entirely possible the problem will be lower sea levels instead of higher sea levels for the next century.
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