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MOTR Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6646	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #510 - Jun 15^th, 2012 at 4:49am
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MOTR Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6646	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #511 - Jun 20^th, 2012 at 4:07am
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Reply #512 - Jun 30^th, 2012 at 7:57pm

Sea ice in the Arctic has melted faster this year than ever recorded before, according to the US government's National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).

Satellite observations show the extent of the floating ice that melts and refreezes every year was 318,000 square miles less last week than the same day period in 2007, the year of record low extent, and the lowest observed at this time of year since records began in 1979. Separate observations by University of Washington researchers suggest that the volume of Arctic sea ice is also the smallest ever calculated for this time of year.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2012/6/27/13408...

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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #513 - Jul 2^nd, 2012 at 1:39am *time for a kit-kat fellas..............*
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Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink
Reply #514 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 6:47am

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http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png

National Snow and Ice Data Center:

Arctic sea ice continued to track at levels far below average through the middle of July, with open water in the Kara and Barents seas reaching as far north as typically seen during September. Melt onset began earlier than normal throughout most of the Arctic.

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chicken_lipsforme Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7090 Townsville NQ Gender:	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #515 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 8:04am Mmmmm. 35 pages on melting ice. Me thinks some have way too much time on their hands.
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MOTR Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6646	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #516 - Jul 28^th, 2012 at 12:13pm And not surprising your latest contribution is just as insightful as your earlier contributions.
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chicken_lipsforme Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7090 Townsville NQ Gender:	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #517 - Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:26pm MOTR wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 12:13pm: And not surprising your latest contribution is just as insightful as your earlier contributions. True, but no-where near as insightful at your usual selective cut & pastefest eh.
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Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink
Reply #518 - Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:31pm

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:26pm:

MOTR wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 12:13pm:

And not surprising your latest contribution is just as insightful as your earlier contributions.

True, but no-where near as insightful at your usual selective cut & pastefest eh.

You mean like the graphs which show Arctic ice is continuing to shrink.

You're more than welcome to provide your own evidence.

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Reply #519 - Jul 29^th, 2012 at 11:31pm

MOTR wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:31pm:

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:26pm:

MOTR wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 12:13pm:

And not surprising your latest contribution is just as insightful as your earlier contributions.

True, but no-where near as insightful at your usual selective cut & pastefest eh.

You mean like the graphs which show Arctic ice is continuing to shrink.

You're more than welcome to provide your own evidence.

chickenlips can't look his kids in the eye!!

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Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink
Reply #520 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 9:09pm

MOTR wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:31pm:

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:26pm:

MOTR wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 12:13pm:

And not surprising your latest contribution is just as insightful as your earlier contributions.

True, but no-where near as insightful at your usual selective cut & pastefest eh.

You mean like the graphs which show Arctic ice is continuing to shrink.

You're more than welcome to provide your own evidence.

Personally I prefer those graphs from the entire Antarctic ice sheet rather that those cheap selective ones eh.

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"Another boat, another policy failure from the Howard government"

Julia Gillard
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Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink
Reply #521 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 9:58pm

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Sep 26^th, 2011 at 1:38pm:

Humans are emitting carbon into the atmosphere, but carbon as a whole still only makes up 3% of the total, with human caused emissions being a fraction of that 3%.

If you had a fountain that pumped 3% of the total capacity of the reservoir into the air and back into the reservoir, then somebody stuck a hose in that was trickling in at a fraction of the rate of the actual fountain and caused the reservoir to overflow then it wouldn't matter that the hose was only trickling, it's still what caused the overflow.

It's the same with the carbon cycle, there is a relatively fixed amount of Co2 that cycles through the system over a short term, the problem is the excess CO2 - which was originally absorbed from the atmosphere during a very high CO2 phase by plants and microbes then stored safely underground as coal or oil - that we are reintroducing into the system that is throwing things out of a balance that has been maintained for about 5 million years.

We are adding more CO2 to the system than the system can naturally remove via the natural cycle, in fact the planet is managing to absorb about half of what we emit, but it is the other 50% of that fraction of 3% that is accumulating in the atmosphere and causing concentrations to increase by about 40% to date.

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progressiveslol Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17029	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #522 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 11:09pm 1923 article
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progressiveslol Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17029	Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink Reply #523 - Jul 30^th, 2012 at 11:16pm
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Re: Arctic Ice continues to shrink
Reply #524 - Jul 31^st, 2012 at 8:22am

MOTR wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:31pm:

chicken_lipsforme wrote on Jul 29^th, 2012 at 8:26pm:

MOTR wrote on Jul 28^th, 2012 at 12:13pm:

And not surprising your latest contribution is just as insightful as your earlier contributions.

True, but no-where near as insightful at your usual selective cut & pastefest eh.

You mean like the graphs which show Arctic ice is continuing to shrink.

You're more than welcome to provide your own evidence.

Looks much more dramatic when your graph goes from winter to the end of summer too...hats off for the creativity.

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