Melting Arctic Ocean sea ice may have been caused by a reversal in the ocean's circulation that had been going on for about a decade, scientists from NASA and the University of Colorado said.
Rocky Mountain News: 'Ocean circulation may contribute to warming'
My post above refers to the same NASA report which Paul has posted in this thread above, but through a different source.
Anthony doesn't like newspaper links like the Rocky Mountain News, but Arnost has given him a NASA link, and I'll give him another.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-131
Wow Sid, its amazing you know so much about this stuff when you haven't either read or understood what you are writing about.
Yep, melt is due to a decadal pattern. Any idea what its called? Any idea how it is predicted to be affected by warming?
Gee, less ice, more snow. 1+1=2 after all
A NASA report released on Wednesday debunks a "global warming" myth relating to loss of arctic ice, claiming that it is mainly due to a decadal pattern which is about to change.
Will be interesting to see whether the media reports this!
Meanwhile, many ski resorts are opening early this year in Europe and North America, because of the extremely heavy early snowfalls. Latest to do so are several resorts in B.C. where resorts already have over 4ft. of snow on the ground, extremely unusual for mid Nov. And it is still snowing quite heavily in the B.C. resort areas.
"Receding snowlines because of AGW".. Ho hum.
The same mafia that Mottsa wants a big fat carbon credit from. What hypocrisy.
The reason for sudden Arctic ice melting is clearly reported in Nature - see Slingo et al Nature 1 November page 27 - it is due to abnormal wind patterns. They say "These Arctic wind
anomalies were part of a global-scale pattern
of highly unusual circulation this summer,
the causes of which are as yet unclear". Yet another of the myriad of unexplained aspects of climate which make long term forecasting impossible.