Posted on 03/31/2010 7:54:23 AM PDT by milwguy
No problemo. I predict the ice will start shrinking again by June.
Take a look at this graph.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
It is the current sea ice extent for the Arctic. Take a look at the huge jump in the last month.
Too Funny. Right you wont see this on the msm
I`ll take a Gin Freezer on the rocks `n drink to that, together with an Eskimo Pie-in-the-face to Guillible-Warming Gore.
Manbearpig strikes again! Excelsior!
The way this is worded, I'm not sure whether the author is clear on the physics involved.
The (north) polar ice cap is floating sea ice. Whether it covers a massive area and is hundreds of feet thick or disappears completely makes no difference whatsoever to the level of the ocean. Ice or water, it affects sea level the same.
The (south) polar ice cap is (mostly) on Antarctica. Each cubic mile of it that melts raises the ocean's level. The same is true of the considerably smaller Greenland ice cap. Whether and how fast they might be melting is of course an entirely different question.
Oh! but this is first year ice! /sarc
Heavens help us! Where will the Polar bear babies learn to swim now?!
Typo??
The date for maximum ice extent is the latest ever, which may result in a shorter melting season.
The actual amount of ice has returned to the 1979-2000 average.
But the Global Warming, Polar Ice melting lie agenda must be maintained at all ( $$$$ ) cost by the enviroNazis !!!!
If anyone watches “The Deadliest Catch” the Captains have been talking about ICE developing further and further south for years covering traditional fishing grounds.
How about 14,405,781 KM2 ?
Silver, How did you know???
sorry, missed a 4, lol
I just posted the graph and did a little write up to illustrate the selective nature of what passes for ‘news’ these days. SHRINKING ice is news, GROWING ice is not.
RNC contractors at a strip club IS news for DAYS, John Edwards knocking up his mistress while RUNNING for POTUS was not.
Obama ‘opening’ offshore areas to oil drilling IS news, Obama CLOSING off the areas (Beaufort and Chukchi Seas) where the vast majority of our undiscovered oil is, is NOT News.
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