Visualizing the Shrinking Sea Ice

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Post by uptown » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

Visualizing the Shrinking Sea Ice
theatlantic.com

Re: Visualizing the Shrinking Sea Ice

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Post by phowat » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

If you want to see this in video, I recommend the documentary "Chasing Ice". It's available on Netflix.

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Post by ddoolin » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 2:59 PM UTC

Wow, The period of 2009 to 2012 was not kind for the ice at all. What caused such a large decrease?

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Post by ams6110 » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:07 PM UTC

At the same time (well, within a couple of years) antarctic sea ice is at record high levels

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp...

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Post by andyjohnson0 » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

ams6110 wrote: post #4

At the same time (well, within a couple of years) antarctic sea ice is at record high levels https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp...

...which, as the article notes, is not necessarily good news: the southern ocean is warming.

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Post by talmand » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:23 PM UTC

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #5

ams6110 wrote: post #4

At the same time (well, within a couple of years) antarctic sea ice is at record high levels https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp...

...which, as the article notes, is not necessarily good news: the southern ocean is warming.

What I got out of it is what I usually see with my attempts at being objective; we know this is happening, we don't fully understand why, and we don't fully know the pros and cons. There are guesses and theories, many of which I'm sympathetic to, that too many people are willing to move forward without being cautious.

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:27 PM UTC

talmand wrote: post #6

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which, as the article notes, is not necessarily good news: the southern ocean is warming.

What I got out of it is what I usually see with my attempts at being objective; we know this is happening, we don't fully understand why, and we don't fully know the pros and cons. There are guesses and theories, many of which I'm sympathetic to, that too many people are willing to move forward without being cautious.

The house is burning down, and we should be cautious?!

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Post by guard-of-terra » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:36 PM UTC

Maybe Northern Sea Route will become viable after all.

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Post by T3RMINATED » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

This Article was sponsored by Al-Gore

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Post by yongjik » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

talmand wrote: post #6

andyjohnson0 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which, as the article notes, is not necessarily good news: the southern ocean is warming.

What I got out of it is what I usually see with my attempts at being objective; we know this is happening, we don't fully understand why, and we don't fully know the pros and cons. There are guesses and theories, many of which I'm sympathetic to, that too many people are willing to move forward without being cautious.

I dunno, billions of people seem perfectly willing to "move forward" with burning fossil fuels even when we don't fully understand its pros and cons. (I also use a gas heater and conventional vehicles, so I guess I'm one of them.)

Or does it not count as "moving forward" when we've been doing it for decades and there's a multi-billion-dollar industry that's interested in keeping the current direction?