Arctic ice cap continues to melt

[Chris]

As of August 16, 2010, Arctic ice extent was 5.95 million square kilometers (2.30 million square miles),1.68 million square kilometers (649,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

 

[elvis]

so does your brain.

 

[Chris]

 

[SFC Ollie]

Yet in 1906 the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in his 47 tonne sloop

Sailed through the Northwest passage. A wooden ship with a sail!

Seems as though we have only been tracking the actual amount of Ice for about 35 years or so. So how do we make any real comparisons?

 

[westwall]

And the Antarctic sea ice extent is nearing record levels....who knew?

AccuWeather.com - Joe Bastardi European Weather Blog

 

[Defiant1]

And yet I still won't be able to turn my ice maker off.

 

[skookerasbil]

Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish
Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.

Anna Petherick


The San Julián fish farm in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia lost 15 tonnes of pacú fish in the extreme cold.
Never TejerinaWith high Andean peaks and a humid tropical forest, Bolivia is a country of ecological extremes. But during the Southern Hemisphere's recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country's tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.

Scientists who have visited the affected rivers say the event is the biggest ecological disaster Bolivia has known, and, as an example of a sudden climatic change wreaking havoc on wildlife, it is unprecedented in recorded history.

"There's just a huge number of dead fish," says Michel Jégu, a researcher from the Institute for Developmental Research in Marseilles, France, who is currently working at the Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. "In the rivers near Santa Cruz there's about 1,000 dead fish for every 100 metres of river."

Cold empties Bolivian rivers of fish : Nature News


http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100827/full/news.2010.437.html






Yup..............more bad news for the k00ks!!!!!

Tell me this isnt a mental condition amongst the environmental hysterics?? Did these people never get bithday candles on their cakes or something?? Hot dogs on a bun without the hot dog???? This is a mental condition.............one where you can only see half of available information because your mind cant embrace it somehow!!! Its fcukking fascinating!!!

 

[Old Rocks]

Yet in 1906 the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in his 47 tonne sloop

Sailed through the Northwest passage. A wooden ship with a sail!

Seems as though we have only been tracking the actual amount of Ice for about 35 years or so. So how do we make any real comparisons?

Three years to get a seventy foot boat throught the Northwest Passage. Right now, you could put a container ship through that passage. And the Northeast Passage is open, as well.

The American Experience | Alone on the Ice | People & Events | Roald Amundsen

In 1903 he established himself as a sailor and explorer of the first order when he successfully led a 70-foot fishing boat through the entire length of the Northwest Passage, a treacherous ice-bound route that wound between the northern Canadian mainland and Canada's Arctic islands. The arduous journey took three years to complete as Amundsen and his crew had to wait while the frozen sea around them thawed enough to allow for navigation. Soon after his return to Norway, he learned that Englishman Ernest Shackleton was setting out of an attempt to reach the South Pole. Shackleton would be forced to abandon his quest a mere 97 miles short of the Pole. Amundsen studied all he could of Shackleton's attempt and began the long process of preparing for his own. He was as highly regarded for his skills in organization and planning as he was for his expertise as an explorer. Amundsen, who was thought to be "taciturn under the best of circumstances," took special measures to be sure members of his crew possessed personalities suitable to long polar voyages. Crew members onboard his ships knew he was firm but fair, and affectionately referred to him as "the chief."

Two freightors through the Northeast Passage.

Cargo ships navigate Northeast Passage for the first time - Times Online

Cargo ships navigate Northeast Passage for the first timeTony Halpin in Moscow
It is both a symbol of global warming and a potentially lucrative new trade route between Europe and Asia.

Two German container ships have successfully navigated the Russian Northeast Passage across Arctic waters from the Pacific for the first time in a voyage considered impossible until a few years ago.

The journey through formerly frozen seas promises to transform Russia’s neglected Siberian coast and reduce transport costs for goods taken from Asia to the European Union.

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, many seaman left their bones in the arctic seeking the Northwest Passage. Yes, we do know that the present melt is unprecedented in modern times.

 

[konradv]

SCORE ONE: rocks.

 

[westwall]

Uhhhh maybe not. Definately a cute publicity stunt but why take the risk when you can take the well travelled NorthEast passage and not risk the ice that will still be there. Please note the emphasis on double hulls. That means the ice is still there.



The problem for Canada is that all the routes for a Northwest Passage involve shallow and/or narrow straits between various islands in the country’s Arctic archipelago, and the prevailing winds and currents in the Arctic Ocean tend to push whatever loose sea ice there is into those straits. It is unlikely that cargo ships that are not double-hulled and strengthened against ice will ever get insurance for the passage at an affordable price.

Whereas the Northeast Passage is mostly open water (once the ice retreats from the Russian coast), and there is already a major infrastructure of ports and nuclear-powered ice-breakers in the region. If the distances are roughly comparable, shippers will prefer the Northeast Passage every time—and the distances are comparable.

Just look at the Arctic Ocean on a globe, rather than in the familiar flat-earth Mercator projection. It is instantly obvious that the distance is the same whether shipping between Europe and East Asia crosses the Arctic Ocean by running along the Russia’s Arctic coast (the Northeast Passage) or weaving between Canada’s Arctic islands (the Northwest Passage).

The same is true for cargo traveling between Europe and the west coast of North America. The Northwest Passage will never be commercially viable


Gwynne Dyer: Northwest Passage will never be commercially viable | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

 

[Chris]

 

[skookerasbil]

s0n..........we note you got a "ReaganBush Debt" link in your sig!!! Whats up with that?? Makes you look more than a bit uneducated......epsecially when you realize that nobody cares about Reagan/Bush debts anymore except the fringe on the internet. Everybody and his brother knows that Obama has signed off on far..........far..........far more debt in the last 12 months than Reagan/Bush had in 16 years!!! 16 fcukkking years s0n Can you not see how that link makes you look like a fcukking mental case???

 

[SFC Ollie]

At least the chart admits that we have only been tracking this for 30 years or so. So what was it like 200 years ago? How about 1000 years ago? Give us something that we can compare to or STFU.

 

[Steve Hanson]

Yet in 1906 the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in his 47 tonne sloop

Sailed through the Northwest passage. A wooden ship with a sail!

Seems as though we have only been tracking the actual amount of Ice for about 35 years or so. So how do we make any real comparisons?

Imagine if we had the capacity to document history since the ascent of man.

 

[westwall]

Looks like they were lyin about this too!

Scientists Forced To Revise Arctic Sea Ice Projections Upwards

 

[RyzinEnagy]

Looks like they were lyin about this too!

Scientists Forced To Revise Arctic Sea Ice Projections Upwards

How does a revised forecast prove they were lying?

 

[Old Rocks]

This is very interesting. We have had a La Nina-El Nino-La Nina. No neutral time inbetween. That is a change in and of itself.

Now by the chart presented by the blog from P. Gosselin shows that all but one of this years estimations of the retreat of the ice were high. We are still not at the minimum, and the ice is at 3.323 million sqaure Km. While all the estimations but one were for a minimum of over 4 million square Km.

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

What will be the extant next year? If it is below 4 million square Km. and there is another strong La Nina, then obviously the warming is by far overpowering the normal cycles. And once again, ol' Walleyes will have to try to lie his way out of a very wrong prediction.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So it should be easy to show how a 20PPM increase in CO2 raises temperatures in a laboratory setting, amiright?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Arctic ice melts, is summer to blame? Nah, it's Global Warming!

 

[Chris]