Arctic is in worse shape than realized as thickest ice shrinks by 95 percent (wisdom, how much)

[subaru5555]

Originally Posted by Icy Tea

Is this the ice melt being caused by volcanic activity?

No.

[subaru5555]

Originally Posted by chucksnee

Yes, we understand that is why the left had to go from global cooling to global warming and now the catch all climate change.....

Or an unbiased person would recognize that the “global cooling” talking point pushed by the right is based upon a single magazine article from the 1970’s.

[chucksnee]

Originally Posted by subaru5555

Or an unbiased person would recognize that the “global cooling” talking point pushed by the right is based upon a single magazine article from the 1970’s.

I was born in 1970 so I have no clue what you're talking about.


Still does not negate the fact that it went from global cooling to global warming and the catch all, climate change.

[Corrie22]

90% of sea ice is underwater....not exposed to air...water temp has everything to do with it
The Atlantic current flows directly into the Arctic Ocean...

When you start measuring Arctic sea ice...at the bottom..coldest...of the AMO...1978...and the AMO naturally goes through it's warming cycle after that

...what exactly would you expect sea ice to do for the next 50 years?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlant...scillation.svg

[NLVgal]

That pretty blue ice? That I saw on glaciers in Alaska? Frozen methane. As it melts? You do the math.

[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

That pretty blue ice? That I saw on glaciers in Alaska? Frozen methane. As it melts? You do the math.

nope, lack of air/bubbles makes them blue

[uggabugga]

non-WaComPost link

[subaru5555]

Originally Posted by chucksnee

I was born in 1970 so I have no clue what you're talking about.


Still does not negate the fact that it went from global cooling to global warming and the catch all, climate change.

Oh? How’d you hear about it then? Some right-wing talk-show host?

Because the entire basis for that talking point is a 1970’s Newsweek short article.

[saltine]

Its opened up lots of taxable mining possibilities

[whogo]

It’s a problem whose only possible solution is technological advancements that produce clean energy at a naturally competitive cost or reduces the need for utilizing energy.