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Arctic ice melt worry

21/5/2016

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A lot of scientists are getting very worried about this years melting of the Arctic sea ice as it is way below normal. The very warm winter reduced the new ice cover and storms have broken up regions of ice making a bad start to the summer melt. There is some way to go yet but as the NASA satellite  chart shows the season has made a disastrous start. 

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David Smith
25/5/2016 02:57:28 am

I don't regard it as a disaster.
Less ice means more sea open for shipping lanes and more chance of drilling for fossil fuels that were previously hidden under the ice cap.
Everyone's a winner!

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Bob Bingham
25/5/2016 12:45:23 pm

You are not paying attention. The warmer Arctic water is disrupting the weather in the northern hemisphere and the oil companies are realising that the Arctic oil, if there is any, will be staying in the ground. .

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David Smith
26/5/2016 06:54:29 am

What weather has been 'disrupted'? I live in the Northern hemisphere and it's been pretty normal as far as I'm concerned.
As for drilling in the Arctic, the Russians have been at it for at least two years as they don't give a stuff for touchy-feely enviro concerns:
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/russia-ships-worlds-first-load-offshore-arctic-oil
If more ice dissapears, there will be more drilling, hopefully.
BTW I do pay attention. Very close attention. That's why I know CAGW is bunk.

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Bob Bristow
26/5/2016 10:56:08 pm

If you want to see how temperatures have risen, look at either NASA GISS (by hemisphere from 1880 - present), or Japanese Meteorological Agency statistics (1891 - present). For smaller independent site confirmation the Hong Kong observatory keeps meticulous readings. The higher North you go the greater the rise. The breakdown of the Arctic sea ice will effect the weather in the North. If you want to see the increases in storm events, flooding etc. then Munich RE Insurance/UN have statistic sites. Insurance is the main place where you can see the increasing financial damages.

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David Smith
27/5/2016 08:50:26 am

Nasa Giss? You mean the temps they adjusted the hell out of to fit the CAGW meme? I trust them about as far as I could throw my mum:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/image20.png
As for quoting Munich Re, insurance companies are commited to keeping us alarmed so that they can keep jacking up the premiums. Don't be so gullible Bob.
Like I've said: I live in the Northern hemisphere and nothing out of the ordinary has happened here in the whole 40 years of my life.
If anything, storms have actually decreased in that time:
http://policlimate.com/tropical/global_major_freq.png
http://policlimate.com/tropical/global_running_ace.png
I go by real life experience, not what a money man at Munich Re wants to tell me.

Bob Bristow
27/5/2016 10:55:59 am

So you are 40 years old. That explains your viewpoint. A climate period is classically considered to be 30 years of average weather. Below 10 you hardly notice weather, so you have only lived through one climate period,, I doubt you would have noticed change. I am 70 years old I have lived in the Northern Hemisphere, tropics and Southern Hemisphere and definitely noticed a shift. I am not a lefty, greenie or any other sort of suffixed animal. I am not interested in politics at all. Whilst I think you are.




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