NASA Satellite Video: Changes In Arctic Polar Ice Cap

I've noticed the last three years have been colder than usual in spring (especially this spring). I think it's El Nino type water currents and air flow north into the arctic. Warm Pacific air moves across the polar cap, is conditioned - and then pours down the Hudson's Bay lowlands, to my house in Toronto.

To wit, a 25 year movie/video of the North Polar Ice Sheet.

NASA movie


Image Yahoo Video

Look familiar? Don't get used to it...

From NASA's Looking at Earth page.

"This animation, derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSMI), shows the annual minimum sea ice extent and concentration for 25 years, from 1979 to 2004."

Dam those 'El Nino type water currents and air flows north....'

By 2020, scientists calculate the ice cap will disappear in summer.

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We will have clear blue ocean in the arctic by summer, 2020.

The international political climate change conversation has recently evolved from denial to rationalization. After Katrina, president Bush conceded Global Warming was happening, but disputes the cause. Now in Germany G-8 leaders are using words like, 'negotiation', 'agreement', and 'accountability', but what are they DOING?.

Today's news @ yahoo.com:

...U.S. favors "setting targets in the context of national circumstances."

GreenPeace has an interactive web site up showing how Exxon funds scholarly research to rebuke the IPCC reports.Also JunkScience.com keeps volleying back half baked s#!%, back from whence it came.

Meanwhile...

If the Arctic Ice Cap continues to shrink at it's present rate, we will have clear blue ocean in the arctic by summer, 2030 says Julienne Stroeve on this CBC QUIRKS & QUARKS podcast.


Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent for Reuters says 2020.

"The Arctic ice cap is melting much faster than expected and is now about 30 years ahead of predictions made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.S. ice expert said on Tuesday.

This means the ocean at the top of the world could be free or nearly free of summer ice by 2020, three decades sooner than the global panel's gloomiest forecast of 2050."

We've had El Nino type weather every year since 1998.

From NOAA

"But in the span of seven years, the global temperature for 2005 returned to 1998 levels, without the warming influence of a very strong El Niño episode."

Settlements on the Yukon River Delta, like NEWTOK, Alaska - as well as hundreds of island communities in the bearing sea - are being reclaimed by the sea.

Map: [http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/05/27/us/27newtokMAP.gif]



WILLIAM YARDLEY, in the New York Times

"The earth beneath much of Alaska is not what it used to be. The permanently frozen subsoil, known as permafrost, upon which Newtok and so many other Native Alaskan villages rest, is melting, yielding to warming air temperatures and a warming ocean. Sea ice that would normally protect coastal villages is forming later in the year, allowing fall storms to pound away at the shoreline."

Now, lets see if China catches up to the U.S. by 2015... And the permafrost lets go 400 000 000 tonnes of CO2 / year, after a 1.7 % rise...

What we could do is legislate Light weight carbon-fibre standards, in the transportation industry.---> Rocky Mountain Institute





More links...

Reuters link

Part One of Quirks in the Arctic

Part Two of Quirks in the Arctic




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Aaron Hill Steals Home!

Video-images of Aaron Hill's Straight Steal of Home !
As per my last post, on Second Baseman Aaron Hill of the Toronto Blue Jays, now here he goes and steals home.
[liveleak(dotcom) below the fold.]

(Getty Images Photo / Jim McIsaac)


A 1 - 1 Juggernaut in the seventh, here in Toronto. New York Yankees pitcher, Andy Pettite is paying too much attention to first - and forgets about Hill - Aaron Hill executes a straight steal of Home for the lead!

You don't see that everyday!

This young baseball player LOOKS like a baseball player; he's smart at the plate or on the base paths; he has a range like Roberto Alomar, or Orlando Hudson; his footwork is Perfect, every throw is to the glove.

Goin' to the Hall at Cooperstown...

Here's Video-images from Liveleak.com





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