Weather Today and Yesterday

[Skuzzy]

Earl, this is not quite correct.  Antarctica has had ice growth the last three years, but the Arctic has lost more.  Right now, according to NASA, the Earth is losing about 13,500 square miles of sea ice per year.

The theory behind Antartica's ice expansion states the ozone depletion above Antarctica has caused more violent storms over the continent forcing a vortex of wind to flow over the Ross Sea where 85% of the continents ice expansion has happened.

[PR3D4TOR]

[earl1937]

Earl, this is not quite correct.  Antarctica has had ice growth the last three years, but the Arctic has lost more.  Right now, according to NASA, the Earth is losing about 13,500 square miles of sea ice per year.

The theory behind Antartica's ice expansion states the ozone depletion above Antarctica has caused more violent storms over the continent forcing a vortex of wind to flow over the Ross Sea where 85% of the continents ice expansion has happened.

appreciate you correct me Roy, but all I know is what I read on the inter net and you know that is never wrong! LOL

[Vulcan]

Personally I don't think science knows enough to make the call on global warming/global freezing. Their models are usually based on feeding assumptions in that are usually wrong.

That said, nothing good can come from filling out atmosphere with bad stuff, in fact nothing good comes of pollution at all. One of things that pee's me off about the focus on global warming is that it takes away from general pollution issues such as the water table and what we are doing to it (while everyone is worried about the sky the entire planet seems to be taking a dump in our rivers and oceans).

We also seem to be shifting the problem not solving it here. In NZ our green policies have effectively shut down some industries, we know source products from these industries from offshore where pollution (and near slave labour) is rampant. The feel good greenies are feeding the problems and making them worse.

[Chris79]

I agree with Vulcan, but I want to state that CO2 is not a pollutant, it is an essential chemical compound for life to sustain itself.

[Slash27]

Not at the moment. The elephant flew to India to visit his mother so im riding the Ostrich until he is back.

That's straight up Tarzan. I like it.

[Mickey1992]

Global sea ice extent is the 3rd highest since 1981.



Arctic sea ice thickness is the greatest in the last 5 years.

[Zimme83]

Depends on how u want to look:

[kvuo75]

i love how many unqualified people feel qualified to disagree with the scientific consensus.

[PR3D4TOR]

i love how many unqualified people feel qualified to disagree...

Every free man's right.

...with the scientific consensus.

No such thing.

[kvuo75]

No such thing.

 

ok then..

[PR3D4TOR]

Just because a group of people say that there is a world-wide consensus doesn't make it true. Why do you believe these people?

[Zimme83]

Why wouldn't he? If scientists say that "our research shows that the climate is most likely affected significantly by humans and that most likely it will have negative consequences". Its a wise thing to assume that they are right. Because nothing really bad will happen if we assume they are right and it turns out they weren't. On the other hand if we assume they are wrong and it turns out they are right a lot of bad stuffs can happen.

[PR3D4TOR]

Do you also take the word of politicians at face value? If you don't think most of the scientists in the UN IPCC are politicians with an agenda you're naive. There are enormous amounts of money involved. Anyone can call themselves a climatologist. It is not a protected title. Why do you trust any of them?

[PR3D4TOR]

Scientific skepticism is a healthy thing.