From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: "North Pole Could Be Ice Free In 2008"
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 13:24:29 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-08-31 10:14, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> If you can't say, "North Pole WILL Be Ice Free In 2008", don't say it at all. Model's predictions have ALWAYS
> been wrong.
>
> North Pole Could Be Ice Free in 2008
> Scientists are preparing for the possibility of a watery North Pole.
>
> By ABC News
> April 25, 2008, 5:48 PM
>
> You know when climate change is biting hard when instead of a vast expanse of snow the North Pole is a vast
> expanse of water. This year, for the first time, Arctic scientists are preparing for that possibility.
>
> "The set-up for this summer is disturbing," says Mark Serreze, of the US National Snow and Ice Data Center
> (NSIDC). A number of factors have this year led to most of the Arctic ice being thin and vulnerable as it
> enters its summer melting season.
>
> In September 2007, Arctic sea ice reached a record low, opening up the fabled North-West passage that runs
> from Greenland to Alaska.
And just to be clear, that "record low" from 2007 was broken...
...2011...
...and 2012...
...and 2016...
...and 2020...
...and 2024 is on pace to at least equal it.
<https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph>