Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/13/2011 6:48:35 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Arctic sea ice has melted to a level not recorded since satellite observations started in 1972 – and almost certainly not experienced for at least 8,000 years, say polar scientists.
Daily satellite sea-ice maps released by Bremen university physicists show that with a week's more melt expected this year, the floating ice in the Arctic covered an area of 4.24 million square kilometres on 8 September. The previous one-day minimum was 4.27m sq km on 17 September 2007.
The US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, which also tracks the extent of sea ice, has not posted data for a week but is expected to announce similar results in the next few days.
The German researchers said the record melt was undoubtedly because of human-induced global warming. "The sea-ice retreat can no more be explained with the natural variability from one year to the next, caused by weather influence," said Georg Heygster, head of the Institute of Environmental Physics at Bremen.
"It seems to be clear that this is a further consequence of the man-made global warming with global consequences. Climate models show that the reduction is related to the man-made global warming, which, due to the albedo effect, is particularly pronounced in the Arctic," he said. The albedo effect is related to a surface's reflecting power – whiter sea ice reflects more of the sun's heat back into space than darker seawater, which absorbs the sun's heat and gets warmer.
Floating Arctic sea ice naturally melts and re-freezes annually, but the speed of change in a generation has shocked scientists – it is now twice as great as it was in 1972, according to the NSIDC, with a decline of about 10% per decade.
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Did SUV’s cause the ice age to end?
So where’s the water rising? What coastal area is innundated?
If an ice cube floating in a glass of water melts, the water level won’t rise.
Ping.
After hearing this news, there was a rise in Algore’s pants.
Oh noes! We better elect as many democrats as possible!
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so, ice is good? water is bad?
I'm sure that proves global warming too.
Sigh, not this s*it again.
If it’ll sink NY and CA, who gives a smelly Obama?
I thought that I read recently that the ice levels were higher than normal... perhaps that was the antarctic.
21st century scientists never heard of summer. They also don’t realize humanity always did well in warm cycles, vikings used to farm Greenland before it was a glacial hell.
This is not a joke, you knuckle dragging retards!!!! We are all going to die!!! Unless we reelect the Kenyan.
Yeah, and did you hear those evil Tea Bag Republicans cheering the melting ice at the debate last night? (/MSM analyst mode)
I expect to get this link sent to me from my leftist email threads, can someone ping me with counter evidence.
thanks,
freeAtlanta
The Polar bears can be saved if we inject them with retard causing STD antibodies.
I hope it all melts. I’m tired of this winter crap.
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