Bipolar, nobody reads your silly rants.
As usual you are totally, completely, irrevocably, wrong.
It`s not the polar ice that`s shrinking it`s the iddy biddy brains that assholes like "OldRocks" have that shrink....
Look at the site that "wirebender" quoted to which this other asshole replied it`s an oil lobby/GW/holocaust/and so on denial site has,...
I found it quite by accident when I Googled for Satellite pictures showing the polar ice caps..:
Step one was...:
Google Image Result for http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/ARCHIVE/20080626.jpg
That brought up this picture which makes total crap out of the "shrinking polar ice"...:
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So I gave it the once over and it is genuine:
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And when I clicked on the Google link to the web site that uses this picture I landed where Wirebender found this picture..:
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and this web site which quite apparently does not engage in the kind of cheating as the "GW" alarmist do posts this...:
Ice Caps Melting?
(or More Pumped Hysteria from the Global-Warming Cons?)
[Today's Vocabulary Builder: "PBEM", or "Policy-based Evidence Making"]
PBEM The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice-free this summer "for the first time in human history," wrote Steve Connor in The Independent. Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict. This sounds very frightening, so let's look at the facts about polar sea ice.
As usual, there are a couple of huge problems with the reports.
Firstly, the story is neither alarming nor unique.
In the August 29, 2000 edition of the New York Times, the same NSIDC expert, Mark Serreze, said:
"There's nothing to be necessarily alarmed about. There's been open water at the pole before. We have no clear evidence at this point that this is related to global climate change."
During the summer of 2000 there was "a large body of ice-free water about 10 miles long and 3 miles wide near the pole". Also in 2000, Dr Claire Parkinson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was quoted as saying: "The fact of having no ice at the pole is not so stunning."
Submarines regularly surface at the North Pole
So what is really going on at the poles?
The Tipping Point that wouldn't tip
Satellite records have been kept for polar sea ice over the last thirty years by the University Of Illinois. In 2007 2008, two very different records were set. The Arctic broke the previous record for the least sea ice area ever recorded, while the Antarctic broke the record for the most sea ice area ever recorded. Summed up over the entire earth, polar ice has remained constant. As seen below, there has been no net gain or loss of polar sea ice since records began.
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Last week, Dr James Hansen from NASA spoke about how CO2 is affecting the polar ice caps.
"We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes... The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would," he said.
Well, not exactly.
Hansen is only telling half the story. In the 1980s the same Dr Hansen wrote a paper titled Climate Sensitivity to Increasing Greenhouse Gases [pdf], in which he explained how CO2 causes "polar amplification." He predicted nearly symmetrical warming at both poles. As shown in Figure 2-2 from the article, Hansen calculated that both the Arctic and Antarctic would warm by 5-6 degrees Centigrade. His predictions were largely incorrect, as most of Antarctica has cooled and sea ice has rapidly expanded. The evidence does not support the theory.
In 2004, Dr Hansen returned to the subject. This time, he explained (pdf) that most of Arctic warming and melting is due to dirty snow from soot, not CO2.
"Soot snow/ice albedo climate forcing is not included in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change evaluations. This forcing is unusually effective, causing twice as much global warming as a CO2 forcing of the same magnitude," he wrote.
Once the snow dirties, it absorbs sunlight, warms, and quickly melts. Then the land and air above warms, causing higher temperature readings. This affects the Arctic more than the Antarctic simply because there aren't many people living near the Antarctic. The Arctic is polluted by European cities and oil fields in Siberia - where gas flaring generates huge amounts of soot.
Editor's note: This is one in an occasional series examining "PBEM", or "Policy-based Evidence Making".
Did I ever have a good laugh...they nailed this same asshole that claimed the arctic "is contaminated" with soot from oil fields in Siberia "dirtying the snow" in the arctic...I was writing about a few months ago...this is the same moron that posed for a National Geographic Photo -op in front of some dirty snow and said that this is soot from Siberia and from our diesel exhaust pipes...never having seen how the 150 klicks + winds that howl all over Greenland and Ellesmere cause dust-storms that are every bit as bad as Sahara Sand Storms.
And the rest of my post is for our forum resident moron "OldRocks"...:
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I could post more "Rubber Duck" evidence here than the usmessageboard.com/ server could possibly handle....its the entire fucking Internet "Data" on "Man made Global warming Satellite evidence"
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