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Dire predictions that the Arctic would be devoid of sea ice by September this year have proven to be unfounded after latest satellite images showed there is far more now than in 2012.
Scientists such as Prof Peter Wadhams, of Cambridge University, and Prof Wieslaw Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Moderey, California, have regularly forecast the loss of ice by 2016, which has been widely reported by the BBC and other media outlets.
Prof Wadhams, a leading expert on Arctic sea ice loss, has recently published a book entitled A Farewell To Ice in which he repeats the assertion that the polar region would free of ice in the middle of this decade.
As late as this summer, he was still predicting an ice-free September.
Yet, when figures were released for the yearly minimum on September 10, they showed that there was still 1.6 million square miles of sea ice (4.14 square kilometres), which was 21 per cent more than the lowest point in 2012.
It is the latest example of experts making alarming predictions which do not come to pass. Earlier this week environmentalists were accused of misleading the public about the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" after aerial shots proved there was no "island of rubbish" in the middle of the ocean. Likewise, warnings that the hole in the ozone layer would never close were debunked in June.
This failure is why we must never, ever, trust anyone with AGW agenda. The earth has climate change in cycles. I am more inclined to believe we are headed towards another ice age. But first, we must make it through the increased moisture phase- like what is written in the geologic column.
originally posted by: CranialSponge
a reply to: TrueAmerican
You're wrong.
Have you looked at Google Earth lately ?
There is no Arctic polar sea ice, it's all gone... melted !
Nothing but ocean up there now !
Google Earth sez so.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: CranialSponge
a reply to: TrueAmerican
You're wrong.
Have you looked at Google Earth lately ?
There is no Arctic polar sea ice, it's all gone... melted !
Nothing but ocean up there now !
Google Earth sez so.
Simon sez? The polar ice retreats every year. Google earth pics are but one snapshot of a yearly ice cycle.
I tell you, i saw all that ice hiding out in a hotel in the Bahamas under Hurricane Matthew.
As of October 1, Arctic sea ice extent stood at 5.19 million square kilometers (2.00 million square miles), which is an increase of 1.05 million square kilometers (405,000 square kilometers) from the seasonal minimum of 4.14 million square kilometers (1.60 million square miles) recorded on September 10. Compared to some other years, the growth rate since the seasonal minimum has been quite rapid. The ice growth has been predominantly in the central Arctic Ocean and the East Siberian Sea sector. There has been little ice growth in the Laptev and Kara Seas, and ice has actually retreated in the Barents Sea.
originally posted by: CranialSponge
a reply to: intrptr
I tell you, i saw all that ice hiding out in a hotel in the Bahamas under Hurricane Matthew.
AHA !
I knew it... I knew there must have been some Google Earth false flag conspiracy satanic subliminal message thing going on.
The ice is just simply hiding under hurricane Matthew.
The lying bastages...
Stable climate conditions you say ....when was that ?and when did the climate become unstable ? Where I live the ice is all gone but 12000 years ago it was 3 miles thick . So you can pick a point between 12000 years ago to present and show me where the climate was stable and wasn't changing .
Whereas sea ice used to be much older due to the stable climate conditions