Arctic

[TonyM]

Updated sea ice extent as of Jan 16, 2017 --



see http://sites.uci.edu/zlabe/arctic-sea-ice-figures/

[Lenno]

Carl Sagan

As Carl Sagan wrote in 1995, in The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark:

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

[TonyM]

What Carl Sagan Got Right (and a Few Things He Got Wrong)

Right: Global Warming

An early proponent of the concept of global warming, Sagan had long
warned the public that humans were altering the environment in an
ultimately unsustainable way. While the science of global warming was
still in its infancy, Sagan accurately predicted that people could
affect the environment and that we needed to take action to ameliorate
our effects — or face the economic and agricultural consequences of a
warmer planet. Nowadays, there is scientific consensus backing global
warming. The question that we now face is what action can be taken to
change its course.

https://www.brainscape.com/blog/2015...ght-and-wrong/

[TonyM]

There's the big temperature spike (well above average) today from the current weather setup. In the following chart,
red line = 2016,
blue line = 2017,
green line = average,
white lines = each year from 1958

[TonyM]

Info from the Europeans --

Still record warm Arctic. North Pole 10°C warmer, W #Canada and Novaya Semlya close to freezing, i.e. almost 15°C warmer than average.

[TonyM]

Large unusual pattern of anomalous warmth bifurcates arctic.

[Lenno]

“Be it known that Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr. also known as Dogwit, is awarded the “Special Snowflake First Class with crossed Lollipops and Double Diaper Pin device”. This award is for parroting the Global Warming Hoax, race and Bolshie party line in the face of extreme uncomfortableness, and being willing to rise above the norm of the average Snowflake.”


The “Special Snowflake First Class w/ Crossed Lollipops and double diaper pin device”

[jimmyb]

I think it is what it is but to try and claim there is nothing changing seems foolish to me.
Im wading through mud in North central Illinois in January.Yes it was cold recently but not the usual lengthy span of cold weather.

[TonyM]

The Global Impacts of Rapidly Disappearing Arctic Sea Ice

Since my days measuring the thickness of Arctic Ocean ice from British
nuclear submarines in the early 1970s, I have witnessed a stunning
decline in the sea ice covering the northern polar regions — a more than
50 percent drop in extent in summer, and an even steeper reduction in ice volume.
Just a few decades ago, ice 10 to 12 feet thick covered the North Pole,
with sub-surface ice ridges in some parts of the Arctic extending down
to 150 feet. Now, that ice is long gone, while the total volume of
Arctic sea ice in late summer has declined, according to two estimates, by 75 percent in half a century.

The great white cap that once covered the top of the world is now
turning blue — a change that represents humanity’s most dramatic step in
reshaping the face of our planet. And with the steady disappearance of
the polar ice cover, we are losing a vast air conditioning system that
has helped regulate and stabilize earth’s climate system for thousands
of years.

http://e360.yale.edu/features/as_arc...ensify_wadhams

[Farp]

So let's see if I get Tony-Baloney's point in this thread: If he posts enough charts and graphs, at some point, we'll just all fall down and give in to this drivel? How many charts will it take? 20? 50? 100? a GAZILLION??? So far, I'm not convinced man has anything significant to do with the climate. I guess I need to see another chart or two or a gazillion...

This thread is nothing but a waste of server space.