Arctic resists warming

adn.com ^ | 11/17/06 | ROBERT LEE HOTZ

[Risha]

Arctic resists warming RESEARCHERS: New patterns of cooling ocean currents, winds suggest region is struggling to keep its balance.

By ROBERT LEE HOTZ Los Angeles Times

(Published: November 17, 2006) An international team of scientists reported Thursday that rising temperatures are steadily transforming the Arctic -- warming millions of square miles of permafrost, promoting lush greenery on previously arid tundras and steadily shrinking the annual sea ice.

Yet the researchers also found new patterns of cooling ocean currents and prevailing winds that suggested the Arctic, long considered a bellwether of global warming, may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s.

Taken together, these findings may be evidence, the researchers said, of the region struggling to keep its balance, as rising temperatures slowly overturn the long-established order of seasonal variations.

"This is a region that is fighting back," said lead author Jacqueline Richter-Menge, a civil engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. "There are things that showed signs of going back to norms, trying to right themselves under very dire circumstances."

[GOPJ]

It used to be "the sky is falling." Now its "the climate is changing, the climate is changing."

Liberals are drama queens...

[aligncare]

"This is a region that is fighting back," said lead author Jacqueline Richter-Menge

She's one of those 'hyphenated' babes...no moonbat here, nope...

[aligncare]

"if it weren't for Man, earth would be paradise"--John Q. Moonbat

[JustDoItAlways]

The polar ice caps are going to melt.

I always laugh when I hear that. The scientists who say it must be forgetting about the 6 months of darkness that the arctic circle is now in. Think about it, scientists?

The average annual temperature at the North Pole is -25 C and there has been no warming there at all.

[EGPWS]

Yet the researchers also found new patterns of cooling ocean currents and prevailing winds that suggested the Arctic, long considered a bellwether of global warming, may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s.

"Send your money NOW to save the earth from Global Warming Cooling before it's too late!

[metmom]

...may be reverting in some ways to more normal conditions not seen since the 1970s.

Says who? Who's to determine what *normal* is?