PrintJanuary 5, 2009
What Disappearing Sea Ice?
Despite the mountains of contrary evidence, concerns over disappearing sea ice and the unfounded position that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008, pushed U.S. government bureaucrats to officially list the polar bear as an endangered species in May of 2008. And then guess what happened....
After the onslaught of record breaking bitter temperatures during the last quarter of this year, and with less wind, the amount of sea ice has significantly and dramatically rebounded at the fastest rate ever before recorded. Currently being measured to be about where it was 29 years ago in 1979, sea ice is again as expansive and dense as it was when global cooling proponents of the time said that we were witnessing the advance of a mini ice age.
Reported by the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, and derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions, sea ice has been restored to pre-AGW levels. The fantasy and absurdity of AGW is becoming laughable, and again is proven conclusively wrong.
Will the "Global Cooling = Global Warming" crowd, and their enablers at the MSM, be recharging their spin on the cold and now "very hard" evidence of cooler weather as yet another indication of Global Warming?
Now that the northern ice pack has been refurbished, polar bears will be free to eat as many seals as possible. It certainly seems that the polar bears are no longer an endangered species. The same cannot be said, however, about AGW proponents....
