Not exact matches
After months of record breaking
arctic temperatures, its finally
starting to
warm up outside!
You could argue the data on 30's
arctic warming is too sparse both spatially and temporally to be a realistic test of model performance, but then you
start to weaken your point about «well characterized» global surface temperature.
Mr. Gates may be absolutely correct that when the
arctic is
warmed there results some (serious) additional
warming: however, if that
warming is not caused overwhelmingly by anthropogenic sources, then — at the very least — we can halt the alarmist cry over CO2 emissions and
start the important work of science.
When earth is cool the
arctic will freeze and the extra snow will stop and earth will
start warming again.
The
arctic air that moved into the eastern half of the region during January and settled in place across much of the region through February made the
warm start of the winter season finish as one that was colder than average.
And remember, the satellite data are one small part of a vast amount of data that overwhelmingly show our planet is
warming up: retreating glaciers, huge amounts of ice melting at both poles, the «death spiral» of
arctic ice every year at the summer minimum over time, earlier annual
starts of
warm weather and later
starts of cold weather,
warming oceans, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, more extreme weather, changing weather patterns overall, earlier snow melts, and lower snow cover in the spring...
This grim fact is even bleaker if the international community concludes that it should limit
warming to 1.5 degrees C, a conclusion that might become more obvious if current levels of
warming start to make positive feedbacks visible in the next few years such as methane leakage from frozen tundra or more rapid loss of
arctic ice.
The constant flow of relatively
warmer surface water that
started in the mid 60s from the equitorial atlantic produced a net increase in
arctic ice melt, thus a colder southward current in the E Atlantic, giving the wrong impression of generalised cooling in the region.
«The constant flow of relatively
warmer surface water that
started in the mid 60s from the equitorial atlantic produced a net increase in
arctic ice melt, thus a colder southward current in the E Atlantic»