Timothy Birdnow

Timothy Birdnow

The newest story making the rounds about Global Warming is that the Arctic Ocean MAY lose all ice this summer. May. This morning, I flipped on the Today Show without Katie Couric (thank the Lord for small favors) and one of their top stories was about this of a straight up Arctic (no ice). (Hey, if it`s good enough for a martini…) This report interviewed two “experts“; Mark Serereze from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the U. of Colorado, Boulder, and our old dishonest friend from Realclimate and Hansen protege at Nasa, Gavin Schmidt.

Here is a priceless quote from the article:

“Already, figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Center show sea ice in the Arctic as a whole at about the same level now as it was at its low point last year in late June and early July.

The explanation is a warming climate and a weather phenomenon, scientists said.“

Gee! It`s late June/early July, and we are ALREADY at the same level now as at the lowest point of late June/early July of last year!

Of course, the idea of a natural cycle never occurs to the dolts at NBC:

“For the last couple of decades, there has been a steady melt of Arctic sea ice, which covers only the ocean and which thins during summer and refreezes in winter. In recent years, it has gradually become thinner because more of it has been melting as the Earth’s temperature rises.

Then, this past winter, there was a natural weather shift called the Arctic Oscillation, sort of a cold weather cousin to El Nino. That oscillation caused a change in winds and ocean that accelerated a normal flushing of sea ice in the Arctic. That pushed the older thicker sea ice that had been over the North Pole south toward Greenland and eventually out of the Arctic, Serreze said. That left just a thin one-year layer of ice that previously covered part of Siberia.“

So, the AO is moving sea ice out of the Arctic. The AO has nothing to do with Global Warming; No Brains Commanded (NBC) has destroyed their own argument!

Of course, anyone who bothers with basic physics knows that sea temperatures have not risen, and that the lilliputian rise observed in land temperatures has not been a factor, so the decline in sea ice has nothing to do with Anthropogenic Global Warming. Also, there is a lively system of volcanism under the Arctic Ocean to which we were heretofore unawares. It should also be pointed out that Antarctic sea ice is at record levels.

Oh, and here is an interesting piece everyone may want to check out.

It amazes me how the mainstream media can possibly put such tripe out. There was no attempt, zero, to balance this alarmism with at least one critic. Media bias can no longer be argued; that is the real “settled science“ here.