July sea ice second lowest ever

[Chris]

July sea ice second lowest: oldest ice begins to melt

Arctic sea ice extent averaged for July was the second lowest in the satellite record, after 2007. After a slowdown in the rate of ice loss, the old, thick ice that moved into the southern Beaufort Sea last winter is beginning to melt out.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Are the Maldives under water?

 

[Chris]

 

[Chris]

Known for their amazing reef life, the 1,192 islands that make up the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, have a dubious claim to fame: they are among the lowest-lying islands on Earth (their average elevation is just over two metres above sea level). The 2004 Tsumani destroyed 14 of the archipelago’s 280 inhabited islands and three of them were evacuated in March this year due to rising sea levels.

Now You See Them ... Soon You Won't | G-Online, the best of green

 

[Oddball]

...the second lowest in the satellite record...

Nothing to see here.

 

[westwall]

I actually doubt the original post but even if it is true it doesn't take into account the fact that the Antarctic is orders of magnitude greater. In fact the GLOBAL sea ice anomaly is more than at any time since 1980. In fact there is more ice globally than there was in 1980. So Chris you earn a huge yawn here.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Known for their amazing reef life, the 1,192 islands that make up the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, have a dubious claim to fame: they are among the lowest-lying islands on Earth (their average elevation is just over two metres above sea level). The 2004 Tsumani destroyed 14 of the archipelago’s 280 inhabited islands and three of them were evacuated in March this year due to rising sea levels.

Now You See Them ... Soon You Won't | G-Online, the best of green

Um, but if all that ice melted wouldn't the Maldives already be underwater?

 

[Chris]

Known for their amazing reef life, the 1,192 islands that make up the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, have a dubious claim to fame: they are among the lowest-lying islands on Earth (their average elevation is just over two metres above sea level). The 2004 Tsumani destroyed 14 of the archipelago’s 280 inhabited islands and three of them were evacuated in March this year due to rising sea levels.

Now You See Them ... Soon You Won't | G-Online, the best of green

Um, but if all that ice melted wouldn't the Maldives already be underwater?

No, because melting land glaciers are what causes sea levels to rise the most.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Well I guess when my friend in the Maldives stops sending me mail I'll know for certain the end is near.

 

[Oddball]

BTW...How many climate research labs are at or near sea level, and when will they be moving to higher ground so they can save us all when the seas rise by 20 feet?

 

[Foxfyre]

Even Al Gore's new gazillion dollar mansion is located on the coast. Considering all his ominous predictions, that doesn't really compute does it?

And. . . .this July was the second lowest ice recorded since we have had satellite records. And, beginning in 1979, we have had satellite records for a tad more than 30 years . Any climate trend noted over a 30 year period on a multi billion year old planet is not even really measurable.

However, on the grand scheme of things we are nowhere near the peak of the interglacial period of 125,000 years ago, but we are in an interglacial period in which we can expect the planet to warm until it does reach its natural peak at which time we will reverse and head for the next ice age. Meanwhile I read somewhere that the seas have risen some 400 feet over the last 15,000 years, and I'm sure that caused some inconvenience to humans in there somewhere, but we're still here.

We should expect ice to melt in the summertime. And I read recently that Anarctic ice is expanding at a rate faster than the summer melt in the Arctic.

I don't think it's time to panic yet, folks.

 

[Chris]

 

[westwall]

Oh darn you forgot this one Chrissy. Why looky there there's more ice globally than 1980, whoda thunkit?

 

[Chris]

 

[westwall]

Same poop different day...YAWN

 

[RetiredGySgt]

July sea ice second lowest: oldest ice begins to melt

Arctic sea ice extent averaged for July was the second lowest in the satellite record, after 2007. After a slowdown in the rate of ice loss, the old, thick ice that moved into the southern Beaufort Sea last winter is beginning to melt out.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

How old is your record? If you are using satellites then the record is 30 years old, meaning useless. If your using some other record it is probably no more then 50 or 60 years old, again useless.

You realize that in middle time period there was a green Greenland? Right? That it was warmer then then now? That we have only had about 20 years of minimal warming. something like 1/3 of a degree?

Further the poles were warmer for longer from 1920's to late 1940's. And no I am not going to link it, it was extensively linked too in several threads YOU participated in and you ignored it then.

 

[DiveCon]

Known for their amazing reef life, the 1,192 islands that make up the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, have a dubious claim to fame: they are among the lowest-lying islands on Earth (their average elevation is just over two metres above sea level). The 2004 Tsumani destroyed 14 of the archipelago’s 280 inhabited islands and three of them were evacuated in March this year due to rising sea levels.

Now You See Them ... Soon You Won't | G-Online, the best of green

arctic ice melting wont effect the sea level one iota

 

[westwall]

Known for their amazing reef life, the 1,192 islands that make up the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, have a dubious claim to fame: they are among the lowest-lying islands on Earth (their average elevation is just over two metres above sea level). The 2004 Tsumani destroyed 14 of the archipelago’s 280 inhabited islands and three of them were evacuated in March this year due to rising sea levels.

Now You See Them ... Soon You Won't | G-Online, the best of green

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Hmmmmmm,,, Maybe not

Global warming - the Maldives is sinking

 

[Chris]

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported on 4 August 2010 that the extent of Arctic Sea Ice has dropped to the second lowest level on record, second only to 2007. Over the 1979-2010 period, the extent of Arctic sea ice has declined at an average rate of 6.4% per decade.

Arctic Sea Ice in July is Second Lowest on Record, Maintaining Rapid Longer Term Decline | WWF Climate Blog

 

[DiveCon]

WOW 31 whole years of data to compare

how old is the earth?