20 March 2015

Global warming? Nah





Kevin McSpadden has a Time article about the Arctic:
Arctic sea ice levels last winter recorded their lowest peak since satellite monitoring began in 1979, scientists said recently.
According to the University of Colorado’s Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic ice levels topped out on 25 February 2015 with a maximum extent of 14.54 million sq. km — 130,000 sq. km less than the previous record low set in 2011, and 1.1 million sq. km lower than the 1981-2010 recorded average. The drop was also widespread, with below-average ice levels recorded everywhere, except for the Labrador Sea between Greenland and Canada and the Davis Strait slightly further north.
The data center did say that a late season surge in ice growth is still conceivable, but unlikely to match the winter’s high-point. Meaning this year’s 25 February 2015 peak date was two weeks earlier than the average. The earliest ice-level maximum was in 1996, reaching its ceiling only one day earlier on 24 February.
Recent weather patterns were partly to blame for the melting ice, with an unusual jet stream bringing unseasonably warm temperatures to the Pacific side of the Arctic.
Rico says he wonders whether, when sealevel gets up to the knees of those living along the coastline, someone will admit that global warming is real...

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