Hemispheres And Ice/Snow Cover

The effects of global warming are obvious, right? Mathematical models alone can't prove cause-and-effect relationships. Robust real-world data backed by demonstrated plausibility would be required for that proof.


The chart line at the bottom shows that sea ice had decreased in 2005-2006 to low levels. Not alarming but low. Since man has only been around for a few years on the Earth and for even less time has been able to measure things like sea ice extent, how do we know that we have the right data from the last 4.5 billion years of the Earth to make comparison to? There have been ice ages for a long time, recently, the last one melted about 10,000 years ago, the Earth has been warming, the sea level has been rising, ever since. The key question is what started the melting, and why is it continuing today?

The ludicrous notion that we humans can effect the planet deny things like the Milochanovik cycles, and change the climate are silly.


Arctic 1/3/2008


Antarctic 1/3/2008
It's obvious the melt has refroze, rather quickly I might add. See this story "Arctic Sea Ice Re-Freezing at Record Pace" of the record fast ice refreeze during the fall. Here’s how NASA explains the record re-growth of ice over that 10-day period in October and November: Record sea ice growth rates after a record low may sound surprising at first, but it is not completely unexpected. The more ice that survives the summer melt, the less open water there is for new ice to grow. When summertime ice extent hits a record low, on the other hand, large areas of open water provide room for the ice to grow once temperatures cool off enough. While summer warming of the upper ocean surface can cause wintertime sea ice regrowth to lag initially, as the fall season progresses and sunlight weakens, the rate of energy loss from the ocean increases. That heat loss coupled with a large area of open water creates ideal conditions for sea ice to form rapidly over large areas. Note currently the arctic ice has returned to normal extent.

The article cited above still adds the doom and gloom message to the science "Recovery still lags" ... how do they know, why isn't it just the natural processes and why won't it continue? Climate on Earth always changes.

But the short answer, ice melts, ice freezes, mother nature makes the rules, not a bunch of anti-growth green socialists/communists. For man to think that he can control or effect the weather is really ignorance on display. Now if you want to believe that because you think the UN should run the world, then there isn't much hope convincing you that natural forcing run the Earth, the Universe and all in between.

For your reading pleasure, Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin a Russian scientists has put out this paper, it portends the start of the cold cycle, possibly the next "Dalton Minimum", the last cold cycle that happened about 1800 and lasted 30 years or so.

Here is an animation of sea ice in the Arctic.

Make your own ice comparisons and view other data here, here.