The rapidly disappearing Arctic ice cap - from the experts

[RollingThunder]

Here's the facts - the Arctic is the fastest warming place on Earth....and the one being the most affected by warming and climate change. This lays it out....with links to all of the cited information.

January 2016 was the hottest month in the Arctic’s recorded history, with surface temperatures more than 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1951 to 1980 average....
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....Parts of the Arctic were 16°C above average, reaching temperatures more often seen in June....
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....January was also the hottest month on record globally....AND the ninth 'hottest month on record' in a row....
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....February was much hotter....in fact this last Febuary was the hottest month in the entire satellite record....
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....marking the fifth straight month that global average temperatures were more than 1°C above average....
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....and the Arctic region’s sea ice has taken the largest loss, reaching a record low for the month of February.

"February saw record low sea ice extent, with ice running a significant 448,000 square miles below average. In essence, a chunk of ice four times the size of Arizona went missing in action from the Arctic."

You can watch this stunning 23 second video of 26 years of Arctic sea ice loss and see for yourselves.

Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds​

Here is a very good analysis of the situation in the Arctic from one of the top Polar ice scientists and researchers, Professor Peter Wadhams, an expert in ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, given on September 22nd, 2015, immediately prior to his departure on an expedition to the Arctic. (Too bad the dimwitted denier cultists have the attention span of a fruitfly or they might learn somthing....except, of course, for that prior fossil fuel industry-rightwingnut brainwashing that 'shields' them from actual knowledge and real science)

 

[skookerasbil]

colorful guy............

But nobody is caring s0n.................. And the fruitflies are winning!! HUGE!!


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[Mr. H.]

So the world's economies (read: America) are supposed to spend tens of trillions of dollars, decimate entire industries, force millions out of work, balloon their national debts.... for the theory that we might reduce global mean temperatures by .018 degrees celsius?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

That Global Warming ship got trapped in disappearing ice...ironic no?

 

[Mr. H.]

Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds​

Watch me scramble your noodle in seconds...

 

[RollingThunder]

So the world's economies (read: America) are supposed to spend tens of trillions of dollars, decimate entire industries, force millions out of work, balloon their national debts.... for the theory that we might reduce global mean temperatures by .018 degrees celsius?

Nope! Just more of your crackpot nonsense!

Go ahead and create your ridiculous and rather insane and inane strawman arguments and go argue with them, Mr. Horse'sAss. No one cares if you want to live in your own little private fantasy world and stew in your own juices 'till your tushie turns mushy.

Your demented drivel has nothing to do with the scientifically confirmed reality of human caused global warming and its consequent climate disruptions.....nothing to do with the topic of this thread: the very rapid disappearance of the Arctic ice cap.

Figure 3. Monthly February sea ice extent for 1979 to 2016 shows a decline of 3.0 percent per decade. - Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center

 

[skookerasbil]

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[Old Rocks]

So the world's economies (read: America) are supposed to spend tens of trillions of dollars, decimate entire industries, force millions out of work, balloon their national debts.... for the theory that we might reduce global mean temperatures by .018 degrees celsius?

Nope! Just more of your crackpot nonsense!

Go ahead and create your ridiculous and rather insane and inane strawman arguments and go argue with them, Mr. Horse'sAss. No one cares if you want to live in your own little private fantasy world and stew in your own juices 'till your tushie turns mushy.

Your demented drivel has nothing to do with the scientifically confirmed reality of human caused global warming and its consequent climate disruptions.....nothing to do with the topic of this thread: the very rapid disappearance of the Arctic ice cap.

Figure 3. Monthly February sea ice extent for 1979 to 2016 shows a decline of 3.0 percent per decade. - Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center

Looks like we are not going to reach 13 million square kilometers this year. That will be a first in the satellite record.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.area.arctic.png

 

[RollingThunder]

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Love when this Mr H guy shows up in here!!!

Of course you do, Kookles.

Retarded nutjobs of a feather, flock together.

It is hilarious watching you two bozos "scramble your own noodles" every time you make another of your deranged posts.

 

[skookerasbil]

Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds​

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Love when this Mr H guy shows up in here!!!

Of course you do, Kookles.

Retarded nutjobs of a feather, flock together.

It is hilarious watching you two bozos "scramble your own noodles" every time you make another of your deranged posts.

Deranged bozo's.......but winning bozo's. And that's all that matters. Fossil fuels still dominate the worlds energy landscape and will for decades while the climate crusading k00ks keep making fun of the "deniers". I'll take the moniker of being a retarded nutjob everyday while Cap and Trade continues to be nothing but a knobby cucumber up the pie hole of every ODC global warming idiot!!

 

[RollingThunder]

Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds​

Watch me scramble your noodle in seconds...

Love when this Mr H guy shows up in here!!!

Of course you do, Kookles.

Retarded nutjobs of a feather, flock together.

It is hilarious watching you two bozos "scramble your own noodles" every time you make another of your deranged posts.

Deranged bozo's.......but winning bozo's. And that's all that matters. Fossil fuels still dominate the worlds energy landscape and will for decades while the climate crusading k00ks keep making fun of the "deniers". I'll take the moniker of being a retarded nutjob everyday while Cap and Trade continues to be nothing but a knobby cucumber up the pie hole of every ODC global warming idiot!!

You keep quoting your own delusions as if that was anything but pathetic.

 

[elektra]

Hey, Soilingblunder, your thread states "Arctic Sea Cap", but your OP only addresses the ARCTIC SEA ICE? I guess you don't understand the difference.

 

[RollingThunder]

Hey, Soilingblunder, your thread states "Arctic Sea Cap", but your OP only addresses the ARCTIC SEA ICE? I guess you don't understand the difference.

The 'cap' over the 'Arctic Sea' IS what is called "ARCTIC SEA ICE", you poor crazy imbecile.

 

[elektra]

Hey, Soilingblunder, your thread states "Arctic Sea Cap", but your OP only addresses the ARCTIC SEA ICE? I guess you don't understand the difference.

The 'cap' over the 'Arctic Sea' IS what is called "ARCTIC SEA ICE", you poor crazy imbecile.

No, it is not, at least if you are speaking scientifically, polar cap and arctic sea ice, very different things

 

[RollingThunder]

Hey, Soilingblunder, your thread states "Arctic Sea Cap", but your OP only addresses the ARCTIC SEA ICE? I guess you don't understand the difference.

The 'cap' over the 'Arctic Sea' IS what is called "ARCTIC SEA ICE", you poor crazy imbecile.

No, it is not, at least if you are speaking scientifically, polar cap and arctic sea ice, very different things

Are you really so stupid and confused that you don't see this is the first time you've brought up something you're calling a "polar cap"?....LOLOLOL.....you make your ignorance and desperation so obvious.

 

[elektra]

Hey, Soilingblunder, your thread states "Arctic Sea Cap", but your OP only addresses the ARCTIC SEA ICE? I guess you don't understand the difference.

The 'cap' over the 'Arctic Sea' IS what is called "ARCTIC SEA ICE", you poor crazy imbecile.

No, it is not, at least if you are speaking scientifically, polar cap and arctic sea ice, very different things

Are you really so stupid and confused that you don't see this is the first time you've brought up something you're calling a "polar cap"?....LOLOLOL.....you make your ignorance and desperation so obvious.

Have you ever looked it up, polar cap and sea ice.

 

[RollingThunder]

Hey, Soilingblunder, your thread states "Arctic Sea Cap", but your OP only addresses the ARCTIC SEA ICE? I guess you don't understand the difference.

The 'cap' over the 'Arctic Sea' IS what is called "ARCTIC SEA ICE", you poor crazy imbecile.

No, it is not, at least if you are speaking scientifically, polar cap and arctic sea ice, very different things

Are you really so stupid and confused that you don't see this is the first time you've brought up something you're calling a "polar cap"?....LOLOLOL.....you make your ignorance and desperation so obvious.

Have you ever looked it up, polar cap and sea ice.

Sure. There are no such things as "polar caps" in scientific terminology, you poor ignorant nutjob. 'Polar ice caps' usually refer to the very large, miles thick, roughly dome shaped masses of ice resting on Antarctica and Greenland (both of which are melting, BTW), while 'Arctic sea ice' is the meters thick skin of ice floating and swirling over rapidly decreasing areas of the Arctic Ocean. Sometimes this sea ice area has been included with Greenland and referred to as part of the overall Arctic Ice Cap.

Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds​

 

[elektra]

Sure. There are no such things as "polar caps" in scientific terminology, you poor ignorant nutjob. 'Polar ice caps' usually refer to the very large, miles thick, roughly dome shaped masses of ice resting on Antarctica and Greenland (both of which are melting, BTW), while 'Arctic sea ice' is the meters thick skin of ice floating and swirling over rapidly decreasing areas of the Arctic Ocean. Sometimes this sea ice area has been included with Greenland and referred to as part of the overall Arctic Ice Cap.

Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds​

Polar as in the poles, north and south, not greenland. Mars has polar ice caps as well. I think you best brush up what you are spewing.

Greenland is a polar ice cap? Moron!

 

[Crick]

Hey, Soilingblunder, your thread states "Arctic Sea Cap", but your OP only addresses the ARCTIC SEA ICE? I guess you don't understand the difference.

The 'cap' over the 'Arctic Sea' IS what is called "ARCTIC SEA ICE", you poor crazy imbecile.

No, it is not, at least if you are speaking scientifically, polar cap and arctic sea ice, very different things

As clear as clear could be, Elektra, you have no argument to make.

 

[RollingThunder]

'Polar ice caps' usually refer to the very large, miles thick, roughly dome shaped masses of ice resting on Antarctica and Greenland (both of which are melting, BTW), while 'Arctic sea ice' is the meters thick skin of ice floating and swirling over rapidly decreasing areas of the Arctic Ocean. Sometimes this sea ice area has been included with Greenland and referred to as part of the overall Arctic Ice Cap.

Watch 26 Years of Arctic Ice Disappear in Seconds​

Polar as in the poles, north and south, not greenland. Mars has polar ice caps as well. I think you best brush up what you are spewing. Greenland is a polar ice cap? Moron!

LOLOLOL....it's actually really funny to watch you spew ignorant nonsense and then try to pretend you know more than everyone else....including virtually all of the world's climate scientists.....you are such a loon, Ejakulatra....where exactly do you imagine Greenland to be located anyway, numbnuts?

See the Arctic Circle....see Greenland....see the Arctic Ice Cap....LOL....see how stupidly ignorant you are....

Polar ice cap
Wikipedia
A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice.[1]

There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over land; only that it must be a body of solid phase matter in the polar region. This causes the term "polar ice cap" to be something of a misnomer, as the term ice cap itself is applied more narrowly to bodies that are over land, and cover less than 50,000 km²: larger bodies are referred to as ice sheets.

The composition of the ice will vary. For example, Earth's polar caps are mainly water ice, whereas Mars's polar ice caps are a mixture of solid carbon dioxide and water ice.

Polar ice caps form because high-latitude regions receive less energy in the form of solar radiation from the Sun than equatorial regions, resulting in lower surface temperatures.

Earth's North Pole is covered by floating pack ice (sea ice) over the Arctic Ocean. Portions of the ice that do not melt seasonally can get very thick, up to 3–4 meters thick over large areas, with ridges up to 20 meters thick. One-year ice is usually about 1 meter thick. The area covered by sea ice ranges between 9 and 12 million km². In addition, the Greenland ice sheet covers about 1.71 million km² and contains about 2.6 million km³ of ice. When the ice breaks off (calves) it forms icebergs scattered around the northern Atlantic.[2]

Over the past several decades, Earth’s polar ice caps have gained significant attention because of the alarming decrease in land and sea ice. NASA reports that sea ice in the Arctic has been declining at a rate of 9% per decade for the past 30 years,[5] whereas Antarctica has been losing land ice at a rate of more than 100 km3 per year since 2002.[6][7]

The current rate of decline of the ice caps has caused many investigations and discoveries on glacier dynamics and their influence on the world’s climate. In the early 1950s, scientists and engineers from the US Army began drilling into polar ice caps for geological insight. These studies resulted in “nearly forty years of research experience and achievements in deep polar ice core drillings... and established the fundamental drilling technology for retrieving deep ice cores for climatologic archives.” [8] Polar ice caps have been used to track current climate patterns but also patterns over the past several thousands years from the traces of CO2 and CH4 found trapped in the ice. In the past decade, polar ice caps have shown their most rapid decline in size with no true sign of recovery.[9] Josefino Comiso, a senior research scientist at NASA, found that the “rate of warming in the Arctic over the last 20 years is eight times the rate of warming over the last 100 years.”[10] In September 2012, sea ice reached its smallest size ever. Journalist John Vidal stated that sea ice is "700,000 sq km below the previous minimum of 4.17m sq km set in 2007".[11] In August 2013, Arctic sea ice extent averaged 6.09m km2, which represents 1.13 million km2 below the 1981-2010 average for that month.[12]