The meltdown of Artic sea ice is touted by global warming alarmists as the ‘canary in the coal mine’.
Like the discredited ‘hockey stick’ theory last years record arctic melt saw alarmist all over the world using it as proof positive that we were all doomed unless we cut global carbon emissions.
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Friday 27th June 2008 - The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
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The center’s senior research scientist, Mark Serreze said at the time:
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I think we understand the physics behind this pretty well,” he said. “We’ve known for at least 30 years, from our earliest climate models, that it’s the Arctic where we’d see the first signs of global warming.
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Actually it turns out Mark and his colleagues don’t have it figured out at all. August marks the end of this seasons Arctic Melt and what do you know the sea ice has grown by 700,000 square kilometres or twice the size of Germany.
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“The data is for August 2008 and indicates a total sea ice area of six million square kilometers. Ice extent for the same month in 2007 covered 5.3 million square kilometers, a historic low.
Earlier this year, media accounts were rife with predictions that this year would again see a new record. Instead, the Arctic has seen a gain of about thirteen percent.
William Chapman, a researcher with the Arctic Climate Research Center at the University of Illinois, tells DailyTech that this year the Arctic was “definitely colder” than 2007. Chapman also says part of the reason for the large ice loss in 2007 was strong winds from Siberia, which affect both ice formation and drift, forcing ice into warmer waters where it melts.”
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So its getting colder in the Arctic and Antarctic yet CO2 levels rose again this year. The hysteria about human induced Global Warming is becoming more indefensible each year.
Yet the Australian and New Zealand governments are embarking on Carbon Emissions Reductions Schemes that will hurt our economies and make our nations poorer all to save the planet – from what?
(thanks to Agmates reader Leonard)
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Tags: Arctic Ice, CO2, Global Warming
