Experts at NASA and the Naval Postgraduate School tell us that Arctic Sea ice may be gone this summer or next. Farewell ice – we hardly knew ye.
In the end, it will just melt away quite suddenly
- Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University
NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/
“Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,” the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.
“So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.”BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013′
They seem to be more correct than WUWT and a certain SG who claimed there would be a rebound in the last 3 or 4 years. 5.5 and 6.0million km2 anyone?
:p
Andy
The village idiot returns.
I never made any such prediction. You are a liar.
Get with the program Steve. Unless you can prove we’re heading towards a new Ice Age, Catastrophic Global Warming must be true.
An ice age caused by all the excessive heat from CO2 is perfectly consistent with CAGW theory. All that heat being reradiated by CO2 can cause it to snow and get very cold. Besides the heat is currently on sabatical (like Mikey M.) and is vacationing in the deep abyss, just out of the range of ARGO.
Hey the SUV that’s usually on the left side of the screen actually moved!
A couple of reports suggesting that summer sea ice will mostly be gone in the Arctic in the next couple of years and you show a picture of Barrow at the end of winter?
How about a prediction now if you never made a previous one?
What is there to predict?
The Arctic researchers will make unsupported claims. We can not predict what is already happening.
“What is there to predict?”
Science is often used to make predictions and allegedly there is some real science here.
Since I accept the science, I can predict that the Arctic ocean will be mostly open water in the summer within a few years. I’m not sure how main stream the views quoted above are in the science community, so I would not necessarily accept them but from what I have read summer ice in the Arctic will be gone by 2020, except perhaps a few patches and ice bergs calved from ice sheets. That is a prediction based on my belief that the science is more correct than not.
Since many on here seem to be ‘skeptical’ of the peer reviewed science, they should be able to make a prediction based on their beliefs.
But ‘skeptics’ seem very reluctant to base any prediction on their ‘real truth’. I suspect that deep down they know that AGW is real and the summer ice will melt within a generation, but their ideologies wont let them admit it, nor will they risk a prediction they know deep down will be more likely wrong.
So they answer with things like – “What is there to predict?”