Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer
OSLO, Feb. 29 2008 (Xinhua) — The polar cap in the Arctic may well disappear this summer due to the global warming, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, said on Friday.
The shrinking of the Arctic ice cap has been astonishing, Orheim said in an interview with Xinhua.
“Ice sheet hit the historical low of 3 million square km duringthe hottest weeks last summer, while it covered 7.5 million squarekm on average before the year 2000, ” he said.
“If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007,the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions,” Orheim said.
“Be Ice Free By 2008″
It was a freudian slip he meant to say possibly ice free by 2800. It’s like the Himalaya thing 2035= 2350.
Anyone know how to play either “spot the missing year” or “what happened next”?
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/files/2012/02/Figure2.png
I wonder how he made out with that!
Steve,
How do you find this stuff? Do others send it to you or do you just look for it?
From what I’ve seen so far, the chicken littles do it all by them selves, that and with the aid of the internet’s unforgettable memory that Al Gore invented.
I’ve been collecting this stuff for years …. Ivan and a few others send over lots of historical stuff too.