In todays Australian, European Correspondent Peter Wilson is concerned Russia thinks its benefiting from Global Warming. All the Arctic ice is melting you know.
THE melting of the Arctic ice cap has created an awkward new threat to international climate change talks by convincing senior officials in Moscow that Russia stands to reap an economic bonanza from ice-free northern oceans.
Sightings of exhausted polar bears swimming in waters that were once thick with ice floes have fuelled calls for more urgent action on climate change, but the heaviest thawing in thousands of years has also raised hopes of new shipping routes and access to long-frozen oil and gas fields.
“The Russians are now showing a dangerous indifference to the whole issue of climate change because they have this perception they might actually benefit from climate change,
But wait, there’s more -
“That perception is not supported by the science, because the drastic climate change we are seeing in the Arctic will have enormous effects right around the world. But the worrying thing is that they (the Russian Government) do seem to think they won’t be severely damaged by climate change.”
Whats wrong with it, just about everything. Arctic Ice cap is almost melted away, Polar Bears swimming forlornly looking for an iceberg to crawl onto, that according to Wilson is the perception that science gives us.
Heres the updated Arctic ice satellite photos taken on Friday compared to the same day 10 years ago. Can you spot for yourself whats wrong with Wilson’s article. Shame on the Australian Newspaper for running this warming dribble.
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Tags: Arctic Ice, CO2, Global Warming, Peter Wilson, The Australian
We are being told on a daily basis that the sea ice is reducing, glaciers are shrinking and Greenland is losing it’s icecap, the latter two causing the sea levels to rise. Yeah well!!
From direct satellite readings:
The sea ice graph for the Arctic is update on a daily basis:
IJIS IARC-JAXA sea ice extent
http://tinyurl.com/5×27nn
Shows the melt extent and the recovery for the last few years (2008 = red)
AMSR-E IARC-JAXA sea ice extent
http://tinyurl.com/6r35f3
This one is interesting in that you can download animations for the period 2003 up until late 2008, for both the Arctic and the Antarctic. When they are run you can see the ice cap shrinking and recovering on a seasonal basis, using a viewer such as Windows media, you can pause and start, and drag the cursor to any point of interest.
The files are fairly large - Antarctic ~ 10.5meg, and Arctic ~ 20.5meg.
From Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog site 25/11/08:
Correspondent Doug Killeen of Seymour Australia -
Discovers that the Fox Glacier in the west of New Zealand is advancing, it had stopped retreating in 1958. Similar history for the Franz Joseph Glacier nearby.
If you Googlearth a look at the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, the glacier goes from the ice shelf right down to the sea. Pictures taken (click on the blue dots)around the glacier show it’s well and good.
If the sea levels are rising, where the heck is the water coming from?
“instead of fixing something its easier and cheaper to just throw it away and get another one”
That might all change I hope , along with living in excess.
It is very sad that a lot of city kids have no connection with rural living and farming.
Sometimes I wonder about that figure 7 billion and overpopulation because for the last 10-20 years masses of people have been pushed off the land around the world and into mega-cities . Small farmers and rural area communities have been cleared of people in many countries under the forces of globalist free trade policies.
For many years our young people in this country have all been encouraged to go to the city - to forget farming and learning agriculture.
Ive just finished reading “We are the Weather Makers” By Tim Flannery and I must say its full of interesting information. (and the polar bear story)
Tim has done well in reminding alot of people that human behavior is affecting the planet. He has put environmental concern into the political ring and reminded people that living in excess is not a good thing to do. Thats where it should have stopped.
For as long as there has been a planet Earth its been a changing, evolving mass. Supporting many different species and many different environments. The life on Earth evolves to suit the conditions present not the other way around.
While we can blame oil spills and rubbish and urban sprawl and poor understanding of sustainable agriculture on the demise of some environments, to take full responsiblity or the ice caps, volcanoes, cyclones and glaciers is abit much.
Are we really responsible for the demise of the extremely rare Golden toad in Costa Rica that lays its eggs in shallow puddles? Maybe that animal has reached the end of its ecological timespan and the conditions now benefit another species.
Tim talks about the sadness of future generations not being able to see many of the wild and rare animals we know today. Im more concerned about the vast number of people raised today that have never seen a live chook, never mind a blue whale!
Charles Darwin observed “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”. In our case we have not adapted but instead are trying to harness the planet and make it suit us.
Whether the planet is warming or cooling is basically irrelevant when smog from traffic has already robbed many city people of a view of the night sky!
Pollution from oil, rubbish and sewage has ruined some of the most beautiful harbours and rivers in the world.
Landfills are full of packaging material that is releasing toxins into the air and people have learned that instead of fixing something its easier and cheaper to just throw it away and get another one.
No doubt many different changes will continue to occur on the planet, glaciers come and go, forests will move with the climate and likewise the deserts. With a human population nearing 7 billion people its no surprise that the species is going to be affected.
I think the survival of the human race is more at risk than the planet.
No wonder Medvedev always has a smile on his face - he is no doubt thinking those silly westerners believing all that global warming hype and crying for polar bears without a place to land.
He and Putin are laughing loud at the affluent dumbed down West.
I don’t think Agmates would be surprised with this form of mis-information on Climate Change from The Australian.
After all, they’re just doing their job of hyping up the public, making sure that the public get their top-up of Global Warming Kool-Aid, for the return of our Saviour, Climate Change Kevin from his instructional G20 conference.
The website ‘Cryosphere’ from which the pictures of the Arctic ice cap where taken, is updated daily from satellite readings - and the data has not been manipulated by Dr James Hansen’s G.I.S.S.
http://tinyurl.com/3bwgwu
The ‘Compare’ function down the page, allows you to compare today’s ice cover to any other date back to 1979. With this you can see that the ice cover has been reduced in the Northern summer - July, August, especially 1997-1998, but recently has returned back to normal Northern winter cover.
It is handy to use when you read or hear from the Alarmist Camp, that the ice cover is going to be vastly reduced or lost.