Posted on 05/17/2014 4:23:35 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
Lake Superior still has some ice on it. In fact, Lake Superior has more ice on it as of yesterday than it has had at any other time this late in the season in the past 40 years.
The high resolution satellite image from May 14, 2014 shows a patch of ice floating out the in the eastern part of Lake Superior. Also notice some of the shoreline areas on southern Lake Superior are still covered in ice.
Anne Clites, physical scientist at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA-GLERL) looked at the years when ice cover was real high. Comparing those years to now, we have more ice on Lake Superior right now. In fact, we have double the previous high amount.
As of May 15, 2014 Lake Superior is reportedly 14.48 percent covered in ice. Compare this to the two highest late season ice years, 1979 and 1996.
On May 14, 1979, Lake Superior had 7.5 percent ice cover. So we are almost double that amount of ice.
On May 15, 1996, Lake Superior had 5.9 percent ice cover. Lake Superior still has a lot more ice this year.
On May 31, 1996, Lake Superior's ice cover was still reported at 0.1 percent coverage.
At this pace, we will still have a small amount of ice on Lake Superior in June.
When the air over the water and water under the ice is hotter than it has ever been, it causes the ice to remain thicker and endure longer into the spring/summer months.
This is all explained in Gore’s book. Gosh Vince, come on fella...
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Why is there all this ice, if we’re having global warming???
When this ice melts, the Hollywood sign and all of Algore’s limousines will be under water.
Yeah well, the community organizer proclaimed he was going to lower the sea levels and all.
Just another lie in the vein of many.
Just imagine how cold it would be without all of the global warming.
45 degrees here in SW Pennsylvania this morning. Going down to 40 tonight.
Thanks, Warmers!
quick! ship it to Antartica!
When the ice is higher than anytime in the past 40 years, the ice has changed
When the ice has changed, the climate has changed
When the climate has changed, there is global warming.
When there is global warming, the ice is higher than anytime in the past 40 years.
- Smarmy science :)~
The only way to standardize lake ice is to raise taxes.
Antarctica has plenty. It set record levels of ice coverage for 25 days in a row just ending in the past couple of days:
https://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/467759071081553920/photo/1
Beautiful. Is that amount of snow anomalous for this time of year?
I did a scientific experiment to see if global warming could cause this terrible amount of ice accumulation.
I stuck an ice cube tray in the oven. All the ice melted. Guess I need another climate model to prove warming’s affect on ice.
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