Arctic Ice thickness

[Old Rocks]

Arctic News

While this site is a blog, the picture comes from the Naval Research Laboratory.

 

[gipper]

No way...we are all going to die


because of AGW...right?

 

[Old Rocks]

Real scientists trying to warn us about real things that are happening that will have real consequences versus a third grade dropout who is barely literate. Gipper, you are a hoot. An advertisement for willful ignorance.

 

[gipper]

Coming from a dupe, that is a compliment. Thank you.

 

[Crick]

No way...we are all going to die


because of AGW...right?

We are all going to die from one cause or another. To a growing extent, those will be reasons related to global warming.

So, did you have anything meaningful to contribute to the conversation? Perhaps something concerning the diminishing thickness of the Arctic's sea ice?

 

[LaDexter]

Did the Arctic drop 80 billion tons of ice this year?

If it did not, then it did not keep up with Antarctica, which adds at least 80 billion tons of ice every year.

So, while the warmers cherry pick, the planet doesn't show a NET ICE MELT... which is why the oceans are NOT RISING, and hence the Tippy Toppiests lie about islands on the lip of the Pacific Ring of Fire "sinking..." from "ocean rise," not plate tectonics...

Why do they LIE?

A" because they KNOW they are pushing a FRAUD

 

[jc456]

Arctic News

While this site is a blog, the picture comes from the Naval Research Laboratory.

So what is your point? What is unusual there? It's sea ice and water can contribute to melt and is different than land ice. You know this right? how long has the sea ice been sea ice? Do you know how old it is? Or does it melt and refreeze annually? Amazing baloney.

 

[Crick]

Did the Arctic drop 80 billion tons of ice this year?

If it did not, then it did not keep up with Antarctica, which adds at least 80 billion tons of ice every year.

So, while the warmers cherry pick, the planet doesn't show a NET ICE MELT... which is why the oceans are NOT RISING, and hence the Tippy Toppiests lie about islands on the lip of the Pacific Ring of Fire "sinking..." from "ocean rise," not plate tectonics...

Why do they LIE?

A" because they KNOW they are pushing a FRAUD

Following the exponential trend (red line) in contemporary times (2012 to 2015), it looks like 2,000 cubic kilometers in three years or 667 cubic kilometers/year. Ice weighs 919 kg/cubic meter. 667 cubic kilometers masses 612,973,000,000 tonnes.

You lose.

You should have read Zwally a little closer. Even he says the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing mass and the gain he finds in the east only slightly exceed that loss. He also states that the mass balance only went positive in 1992 and he expects it to remain positive for no more than 20 to 30 years. And, of course, Zwally's conclusions are at odds with every piece of work along these lines for the last several decades. No one has backed him up.

 

[mamooth]

From Neven's Sea Ice blog, a comparison of Arctic ice extents on Sep. 1. This year's extent isn't as small as 2012 (the record low), but the ice coverage is a lot more ragged. Conditions this year were not especially good for melt, but it will still end up as the second or third lowest extent. That's because the trend is inexorably down. It's similar to temperature trends. It doesn't break a new record every year, but it will happen eventually.