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2008-07-15 Science & Technology

Some Quick Observations On Global Warming

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Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Looks pretty icy to me. Just like it should be.
The imagery doesn't give us any information about thickness, but you'd think the edges would be melting at least if it were getting thin.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-15 09:31|| 2008-07-15 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 If you haven't gone to see the picture at the link, do so. It's a satellite picture of northern Canada and Arctic Ocean dated 7/12/08. Cool! Just not quite what the chicken little alarmst say it should look like.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-07-15 09:44|| 2008-07-15 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Northern Hemispheric ice coverage about 600k km**2 ahead of last year while SH is running about 1m km**2 ahead.

We are about 6 years into the negative phase of the PDO. The water in the North Pacific is about 2C cooler than the 30 year mean.

And depending on who you want to believe, we are headed toward a Maunder Minimum in the sunspot cycle...which some believe contributed to the Little Ice Age. I agree with NASA (for once) that the jury is still out on that.

The point is that the negative phase of the PDO is the 1st order effect on sea ice and the little warming we have measured with the rest likely attributable to variations in the solar constant.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2008-07-15 11:49|| 2008-07-15 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah, so this is where it went. I threw it in the hopper yesterday, but I figured it got eaten by the glitch monster.

I wanted to call attention to the comment as opposed to the primary post; I think he did a lot to connect the various dots.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-15 18:59|| 2008-07-15 18:59|| Front Page Top

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