Arctic melt worse than predictions

[JoeyWarren]

(CNN) – Arctic sea ice is melting at a rate far quicker than predicted by climate change computer models and could disappear completely before the middle of the century, scientists have warned.

cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/02/arctic.ice/index.html

(CNN)But the research, conducted by the U.S.-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), demonstrates that the 18 models on which the IPCC has based its current recommendations could already be out of date – and that the retreat of the ice could already be 30 years ahead of the IPCC’s worst case scenario.

 

[stbruno]

It’s also happening on the planet Mars. I hope that climatologists will be able to suggest how we are going to need to adjust to this serious development, not only globally but universally. Maybe our Sun is the cause of this and not just our own pollution.

More reasons to pray!

 

[Orogeny]

Doesn’t give one a whole lot of confidence in those models, does it?

Peace

Tim

 

[gilliam]

The Artic is an ocean. Over the milleniums there were times it had ice on it and there were times it didn’t.