Thursday, August 23, 2012

Puzzling alleged Arctic ice death spiral continues: Five years after warmist Serreze suggested that the Arctic would be ice-free in five years, warmist Stroeve suggests that the Arctic will be ice-free in another 38 years

Arctic sea ice levels to reach record low within days | Environment | guardian.co.uk
"The whole energy balance of the arctic is changing. There's more heat up there. There's been a change of climate and we are losing more seasonal ice. The rate of ice loss is faster than the models can capture [but] we can expect the arctic to be ice-free in summer by 2050," said Stroeve.

"Only 15 years ago I didn't expect to see such dramatic changes, no one did. The ice-free season is far longer now. Twenty years ago it was about a month. Now it's three months. Temperatures last week in the arctic were 14C, which is pretty warm."
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New research published in Nature on Thursday said that the warming of the Antarctic, where temperatures have risen about 1.5C over the past 50 years, is "unusual" but not unprecedented relative to natural variation. The research by Robert Mulvaney of the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, based on an ice-core record, showed that the warming of the northeastern Antarctic peninsula began about 600 years ago. Temperature increases were said to be within the bounds of natural climate variability.

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