Tag: Arctic

Cancel your vacation plans: Predictions for ice free Arctic summers pushed back. Again.

Damn it. We were so sure our investment in a summer resort in the Arctic was going to pay off in a big way. But now the predictions for an ice-free Arctic have been pushed back. Yet again.

Damn it. We were so sure our investment in a summer resort in the Arctic was going to pay off in a big way. But now the predictions for an ice-free Arctic have been pushed back. Yet again.

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Ice breaker on its way to IHTM's summer resort in the arctic

The BBC has the new, improved ice free prediction:

Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade.

The original prediction, made in 2007, gained Wieslaw Maslowski’s team a deal of criticism from some of their peers.

Now they are working with a new computer model – compiled partly in response to those criticisms – that produces a “best guess” date of 2016.

Best guess. That’s a highly scientific term that means “making shit up as we go along.”

Source: BBC

Doubling down on doubletalk: Obama opposes drilling in Arctic because it won’t lead to energy independence

In an administration that’s already exceeded its quota of boobs and dunces, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar stands out as for his complete ineptitude.

In an administration that’s already exceeded its quota of boobs and dunces, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar stands out as for his complete ineptitude. His explanation of why the Obama administration opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic not only defies logic, but very nearly defies comprehension.

CNSNews.com has the story of Salazar’s shortsightedness:

CNSNews.com asked Salazar, “Given the rising cost of gasoline why is the administration opposed to drilling in the arctic refuge?”

“We don’t believe that you need to drill everywhere and we don’t believe that the ‘drill, baby, drill’ program is the way that’s going to get us to the energy independence that we need for America or that will power our economy and that’s why the President has been so clear from day one and we in the Department of Interior have been so clear that what we need to do is need to have a robust energy program that includes a number of different sources of energy and while yes, we are pushing forward with oil and gas development both offshore and onshore which was the subject of much of the hearing today, we’re also moving forward with renewable energy,” he told CNSNews.com after testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee about his Department’s FY2012 budget.

Windmills. Solar power. Fairydust. The more unproven, the better. The more workable, the better. The more government subsidies required, the better.

Anything but oil.

Source: CNSnews.com

Another idiot damn near freezes to death trying to prove global warming in the Arctic

Oh, my. How long has it been since we had a global warming lunatic who discovered that that Arctic isn’t nearly as warm as the hype lead him to believe?

How's that global warming working out for you, Tom?

Oh, my. How long has it been since we had a global warming lunatic who discovered that that Arctic isn’t nearly as warm as the hype lead him to believe?

The Ski Channel reports the frigid facts:

Tim Smitheringale is perhaps both the bravest and dumbest man we’ve ever encountered. The Australian was on his way to the North Pole, alone, when he fell through an ice sheet. He was close to death when he was miraculously rescued by Canadian soldiers.

His goal? To become the first Australian to reach the North Pole unassisted. He was only 186 miles away when the accident happened. He wrote on his website: “Had a bad fall into the ice today and came very close to the grave.”



The Sydney Morning Herald tells more tingling details:

Last week he almost quit after excruciating frostbite in his fingers and thumbs forced him to call in an emergency rescue.

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Bad stuff, blame global warming. Good stuff, credit good Mother Gaia

Things aren’t going well for Mother Gaia. Oh, not because of global warming, but instead because those damn arctic animals won’t die off like the global warming theory predicts.

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Bowhead whale enjoying a little global warming

Things aren’t going well for Mother Gaia. Oh, not because of global warming, but instead because those damn arctic animals won’t die off like the global warming theory predicts.

NewScientist.com tells the good news for arctic critters:

CONTRARY to popular belief, Arctic animals have done rather well over recent decades. The first analysis of a 40-year database of Arctic species reveals that populations grew by 16 per cent on average between 1970 and 2004.

The Arctic Species Trend Index covers 35 per cent of all Arctic vertebrate species. The analysis, led by Louise McRae at the Zoological Society of London, shows several mammals have benefited from hunting bans. Populations of bowhead whales, for instance, have risen by about 3 per cent per year for 30 years.

But the trend masks worrying recent declines. Warmer waters in the Bering Strait boosted the Bering Sea pollock between 1970 and 2003 by increasing plankton growth, but numbers have since declined. The dark-bellied brent goose has also declined, after an initial recovery of numbers. The team says the recent declines could be linked to climate change.

Got that? Animal populations are up, but it masks a worrying decline.

Global warming doubletalk at its finest.

Source: NewScientist.com

Terrifying reports of unprecedented arctic warming. From 1922.

The global warming in the arctic is unprecedented.. We’re all going to die! The earth is doomed!

The warming in the arctic is unprecedented. We’re all going to die! The earth is doomed!

Ice is disappearing. Polar bears are dropping like flies. Seals are vanishing. Fish are going the way of the dodo. As reported in the October 10, 1922 edition of Monthly Weather Review.

Good thing Al Gore wasn’t around to scare the bejeebers out of everyone back then.

Source: Watts Up With That

Greenpeace spokesman admits its story about melting Arctic ice doesn’t hold water

Gerd Leipold, the outgoing leader of Greenpeace finally admitted to BBC reporter Stephen Sackur that the organization may have made a bit of mistake when it claimed that Arctic ice will disappear by 2030.

Getting a member of Greenpeace to admit they flat out lied about the imminent disappearance of Arctic ice was tougher than drowning a polar bear.

Yet, after repeated questioning, Gerd Leipold, the outgoing leader of Greenpeace finally admitted to BBC reporter Stephen Sackur that the organization may have made a bit of mistake lied when it claimed that Arctic ice will disappear by 2030.

“I don’t think it will be melting by 2030…That may have been a mistake,” he said.

Weakening the organization’s credibility even further, Leipold admitted that Greenpeace is often guilty of “emotionalizing issues” in an attempt scare the hell out of people.

Then he got to the real heart of the matter – the only way to stop global warming is to destroy the American economy.

“We will definitely have to move to a different concept of growth…The lifestyle of the rich in the world is not a sustainable model,” Leipold observed. “If you take the lifestyle, its cost on the environment, and you multiply it with the billions of people and an increasing world population, you come up with numbers which are truly scary.”

Scary. Sort of like the phony story about the Arctic ice melting.

Source: Big Hollywood

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