With the arctic melting, we have broken one of the largest features of the planet @billmckibben at #sxsweco humans: #failAstrid Scholz
Greg Goodman says: «
With arctic melting season firmly lodges around an even 6 months, another catastrophic melt seems unlikely.»
With arctic melting season firmly lodges around an even 6 months, another catastrophic melt seems unlikely.
Not exact matches
The
melting of the
arctic ice and the Greenland glaciers along
with the warming of the ocean will raise sea levels and flood some of the world's most populous and fertile regions, the deltas of the great rivers.
Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the
arctic ice pack is rapidly
melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions
with ships, while global warming is steadily
melting their icy abode and reducing available food.
I would expect,
with global warming,
with the ice
melting earlier, this date would move forward for the high latitudes, and should also cause the date of minimun
arctic ice extent to move foward also.
So if they hear NP is icefree, that will be conflated
with «all the
arctic ice has
melted», which I suspect is conflated
with GIS has
melted.
Re # 49 & # 82 The limitations on the growth of algae in the
arctic varies
with the season, the effect of sea - ice
melting is not as certain as Harold would have us believe: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005JC002922.shtml http://www.nurp.noaa.gov/Spotlight/ArcticIce.htm
The thing is that for the World Ocean to rise any significant amount then it would need all the frozen fresh water to
melt, and even though the fear mongers keep saying this is happening, its not, JP Lovecraft was the flag bearer of the CAGW movement, he coined the word Gaia, he said that mankind would only be able to breed in those areas of the warm
arctic and Antarctic, the rest of us would be dead, he said that and many other scaremongering things but close to the end of his life then he recanted it all, he said that «enough time had passed had passed for the models to be proved correct, and that all that the passing of time had proved was that all the models were not correct» me I think that he did not want to die
with his horses still hitched to this faulty wagon.
Given that this feedback alone gave that warming input while realized AGW was between ~ 0.4 C and 0.85 C, and given that it is inherently non-linear
with increasingly juvenile
arctic sea ice being increasingly vulnerable to
melting, it seems fairly clear (to me) that as «anthro warming» rises towards ~ 2.4 C the sum of the feedbacks» outputs would inexorably rise to offset our best efforts at Emissions Control.
While the 2010
melt season started
with more multi-year ice (MYI) in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas than seen in recent years and an overall greater percentage of MYI
arctic - wide, by the end of August nearly all of this MYI had
melted out or ice concentration had fallen below 40 %.
When we get a
arctic season
with great cyclones, those cyclones can lead to a break up of the ice (more lateral
melting), If currents conspire we end up
with more transport out of the
arctic (ice then
melts in the warmer water), and we get Eckmen pumping and more ice
melts.
Your argument is that the warming of the ocean, the warming of the atmosphere, the warming of fresh waters dumping into the
arctic has nothing to do
with ice
melt.
They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as
melting the
Arctic ice cap by covering it
with black soot or diverting
arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.
On the one hand, science has to deal
with potential feedback trends unleased by global warming — such the run - away
melting of the
arctic permafrost releasing massive amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane — that are essentially «unknowable», Pindyck wrote.
But as
arctic temperatures warm
with climate change and ice
melts, the bears will have a harder time finding mates.
But what has happened over the last 20 years
with more summer
melting has been observed before and you can find scare stories in newspapers similar to todays, all quoting
arctic scientists or explorers in 3 - 4 different periods in the last 120 years.
They're admittedly
melting the
arctic ice
with it so they can blame it on gasoline, tax it, make trillions, destroy the economy by driving up prices
with the peak oil scam, make even more trillions, take over the world, and kill you all!
It turns out, though, that soot may have more to do
with melting ice and rising
arctic temperatures than CO2, and this is actually good news:
Due to the animals» dependence on floating ice sheet, ringed seals are considered particularly vulnerable to
arctic melting associated
with global warming.
Some «missing heat» might be in latent heat of
melting but given that antarctic ice growth about balances out
with arctic shrinkage we'd only turn the problem from missing heat into missing ice
melt.
This is literally as the idea from the lets cover the
arctic with soot to
melt it and prevent an ice age department
Also, most of the projected surface warming is the high latitudes of the northern hemisphere, along
with the direst impacts (
melting of
arctic sea ice and greenland, release of methane from permafrost, etc)