So far all we’ve heard from the left-wing media in this country and in the U.S. is that the Arctic is melting. Every inch of Arctic ice that melts is fully and tediously reported complete with dire warnings of more to come, all pointing to “man-made global warming” as the cause. Usually they accompany those stories with a huge BS photo of a soon-to-be extinct polar bear swimming for his life in the absence of ice, and/or scenes of smoke stacks (from corporations—make no mistake!) emitting pollution into the air.
So thanks to PTBC reader Glen D for helping to properly and fully inform Canadians in the absence of our benevolent state-owned media and their usual honesty and news “reporting” in this country doing their job.
So much of what is reported is total bunkum. Maybe this report is total nonsense, but it certainly is worth looking at, don’t you think, CBC? CTV? Anyone? Hello? Oh there you are hiding under your desks. Maybe some day you’ll start doing your jobs again instead of misleading us all with your left-wing politics and world view. Naw. Nevermind. We’ll do it.
Science
Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage
Michael Asher (Blog) – September 3, 2008 2:44 PMData from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has indicated a dramatic increase in sea ice extent in the Arctic regions. The growth over the past year covers an area of 700,000 square kilometers: an amount twice the size the nation of Germany.
With the Arctic melting season over for 2008, ice cover will continue to increase until melting begins anew next spring.
The data is for August 2008 and indicates a total sea ice area of six million square kilometers. Ice extent for the same month in 2007 covered 5.3 million square kilometers, a historic low. Earlier this year, media accounts were rife with predictions that this year would again see a new record. Instead, the Arctic has seen a gain of about thirteen percent.
William Chapman, a researcher with the Arctic Climate Research Center at the University of Illinois, tells DailyTech that this year the Arctic was “definitely colder” than 2007. Chapman also says part of the reason for the large ice loss in 2007 was strong winds from Siberia, which affect both ice formation and drift, forcing ice into warmer waters where it melts.
Earlier predictions were also wrong because researchers thought thinner ice would melt faster in subsequent years. Instead, according to the NSIDC, the new ice had less snow coverage to insulate it from the bitterly cold air, resulting in a faster rate of ice growth.
Most concern has focused on the Arctic regions, rather than Antarctica. Recent research has indicated Antarctica is on a long-term cooling trend, for reasons which remain unclear.
Earlier this year, concerns over global warming led the US to officially list the polar bear a threatened species, over objections from experts who claimed the animal’s numbers were increasing.
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