Ice extent has more than doubled during the last six weeks, which is why leading British experts are forecasting that it will all melt in the next four years.
Prof Peter Wadhams, of Cambridge University, said the ice that forms over the Arctic sea is shrinking so rapidly that it could vanish altogether in as little as four years’ time.
This is actually good news, because Canada’s top expert said it would be gone by 2010
QUEBEC — The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.
Louis Fortier, scientific director of ArcticNet, a Canadian research network, said the sea ice is melting faster than predicted by models created by international teams of scientists, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Norway’s top expert said it would be gone by 2008
Polar ice cap melting away in 2008 ?
How low will they go? Putting a date on the melting of the Arctic ice cap has been a popular prediction game among scientists of late; in recent months, we’ve heard estimates ranging from 2030 to as early as 2013.
The latest salvo comes courtesy of Xinhua, which reports that Olav Orheim, the head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, is placing his money on this summer.
Of course they are all completely FOS, because the ice was gone ten years ago, and the US already burned up.
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“QUEBEC — The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.”
Obviously there was a misprint. It should read…
“QUEBEC — The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a lying rentseeker.”
I hope they betted their pensions on those strong convictions.
Except for a few missing ice cubes along the north central coast of Russia, the ice looks very healthy.
If heaven forbid we got 4 degrees of warming, Fairbanks would be only -36 rather than -40, which would certainly spell the end for Western Civilization as we know it.
Missing along the coast of Russia? You mean where the ice breakers run year round? Yea, its a sign of CO2.
Actually, they may be right, because they will revise there statements that if there is less than a ‘certain’ amount of ice, then it will be claimed ice free…ie: x number of Manhattans is deemed ice free….
Once I thought I made a mistake, but I was wrong.
Julienne Stroeve once told me that she would consider any amount of ice smaller than Egypt……ice free
I’m sure the Egyptians would not be happy to hear that….
Egypt is huge!
Oh, Lord, I can’t stop laughing at these desperate shenanigans. Do they enjoy being humiliated d’you think?
If you’re delusional, and you keep looking at shapes forming among the clouds, and keep seeing Manbearpig, the fantasy could last quite a while. It will probably take some devastating winters like the Dalton had – and a more than “recovered” arctic minimum to snap some of them out of it. Some will never come out of it.
We’re in the double dip La Nina. Could we get a triple dip? 6 feet of the “thing of the past” in Washington? That’s what we need.
I hate the idea that we should all have to suffer really awful weather events in order to dispel the fantasy.
They are burning up in Fairbanks: http://newsminer.com/view/full_story/16470974/article-Record-Fairbanks-cold-continues–air-quality-warnings-issued?instance=home_news_window_left_top_3