"Just a few weeks ago, predictions of Arctic ice collapse were buzzing all over the internet. Some scientists were predicting that the 'North Pole may be ice-free for first time this summer'. Others predicted that the entire 'polar ice cap would disappear this summer'," writes Steven Goddard in yesterday's UK Register.
The article continues, "The Arctic melt season is nearly done for this year. The sun is now very low above the horizon and will set for the winter at the North Pole in five weeks. And none of these dire predictions have come to pass. Yet there is, however, something odd going on with the ice data...
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[...] to blame for polar warming Oh dear!. Yet IPA’s corporate environmental spokesperson Jennifer Marohasy continues to live a world where Arctic ice may actually be increasing, and hey, Britain has had [...]
Wow folks - that's one hell of a rowdy debate you have got going down here. I'm really pleased to see the feelings are running so high. We need this kind enthusiasm. Better than good old apathy. May I gently suggest that we take a risk based approach and try to find some common ground. Statistics and past experience suggest that I may crash my car this year. I reckon I'm not and can do my best to avoid doing so, but I'll be taking insurance just in case. Don't know who's right or wrong here - but if the warmers are proved right and we've done nothing to prepare, that's a hell of a risk to take? And if they are wrong and we have prepared for nothing, well, I like the idea of more time with my family, less time in a car, eating better food and an economy that's not founded on an inevitably dwindling resource. I don't think at the end of the year when yet again I have failied to crash my car "I wish I hadn't taken out that insurance" C'mon what have we got to lose? Let's just shake hands, make up and get on with the insurance policy.
lol Robsterillo
Newsflash: Massive Canadian Ice Shelf Suddenly Breaks Up:
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/50087/story.htm
Arctic Melting shows severity of global warming:
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/50081/story.htm
If only this was just about winning on-line debates, and not about the planet turning into one big New Orleans, and not in a good way.
Actually, the Arctic sea ice is NOT 'not refusing to melt':
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gU8J3xEhFmRPw87tPfwb-oXa5h9gD92QNA480
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