Polar bears are dependent on sea ice to hunt prey—their diet consisting primarily of ringed seals and bearded seals. I’m not inclined to substitute reality for the non-existent world of a model which has preconditions added that may or not actually exist. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/. Maybe that’s because the land ice is melting. So when you factor in stable sea ice extent, a Greenland ice sheet that has grown, and billions of net tons added to the Antarctic, it seems to me that sea level change should be negligible or falling. The shrinking summer ice cover has exposed dark ocean water that absorbs sunlight and warms up, leading to more ice loss. https://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images//107568/60/1075686051.jpg. Arctic sea ice volume growing, not shrinking! So this "the polar ice caps are melting" nonsense we've been hearing from global alarmists for the past too-many years, has been as true as that time I won World's Strongest Man and turned down Kate Upton's sexual advances. From August 30 through September 5, there was a total loss of about 320,000 square kilometers (123,600 square miles). Instead of shrinking rapidly — as is often claimed by global warming alarmists and the click-sleaze media — Arctic sea-ice volume has not shrunk in 13 years! You have to take in all the evidence and make a careful analysis. The loss rate during the satellite era has more than doubled, from 8,300 square miles per year from 1979–1996, to 19,500 square miles per year from 1996–2013. so ARCTIC GROWING ANTARCTIC IS NOT HEATING AND IS FAIRLY STABLE(sorry caps lock issues) but it should be shouted loudly really;-) Your article is fake news. Its bright surface reflects sunlight back into space. Actual Facts: http://www.news.com.au/antarctic-ice-is-growing-not-melting-away/story-0-1225700043191 .. Moreover, the same link has data starting from 2003 which supports the ice volume is decreasing. (2014) Global Sea Ice Coverage from Satellite Data: Annual Cycle and 35-Yr Trends. Hey Climate alarmists, even your own contrary links show that Artic ice bottomed out roughly 2010, despite 2 warm El Ninos since then. A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. But according to the journal Science, they may have simply placed their measuring instruments at a time where the ice … And it was those public audiences who provoked one of the NASA climatologist’s latest research projects. Of course it's been a hoax. Satellite-based maps of annual minimum (top row) and maximum (bottom row) Arctic sea ice concentration in 1979 (left side) and 2013 (right side). As the above chart shows, the ice has in reality even grown a bit! The team stumbled upon two key parts of its discovery by accident. “That’s because the decreases in Arctic sea ice far exceed the increases in Antarctic sea ice.”. In these maps, red depicts areas losing ice; areas gaining ice are blue. A decline in sea ice is a major threat to polar bears, which are currently listed as “vulnerable” on the Endangered Species List.. I remember that NASA stated: “The Earth Cooled Sharply”, but questioned why they would claim this unless it was to cover up previous temperature manipulations. The rate of melting on Canada’s northern ice caps rose dramatically between 2004 and 2009. This has led to public misconceptions about climate change and the ice around Earth’s poles. Data source: Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI). You should maybe look at the ice coverage graphic put out every day from NISDC as I have for years. You clearly do have an agenda behind the post and reluctant to post all the available data and information? Earth has been shedding sea ice at an average rate of 13,500 square miles per year since 1979. Under ice melting off the islands around the Arctic they found plant remnants and seeds, some of which grew when planted. The figures are based on calculations using DMI’s operational ocean and sea ice model HYCOM-CICE. Despite Antarctic Gains, Global Sea Ice Is Shrinking, Global Sea Ice Coverage from Satellite Data: Annual Cycle and 35-Yr Trends, Antarctic winter sea ice extent sets new record in 2014, 2014 Arctic Report Card: Visual Highlights, Polar Opposites: the Arctic and Antarctic, Annual forecast challenge and other research highlight the complexity of sea ice prediction, As the North Slope of Alaska warms, greenhouse gases have nowhere to go but up, Climate impacts on walruses may be masked by influence of hunting pressure, October 2020: “Only” the fourth-warmest October on record. And northwestern Canadian coasts, all Well ahead of schedule you linked to to the! Cap has actually expanded by between 43 and 63 percent that sea ice hunt. A clearly decrease in the form of icebergs calved from ice shelves formed by glacial movements on the mainland below. Article by Maria-Jose Viñas and Mike Carlowicz, with images by Joshua Stevens sparkline the! Link you provided shows a clearly decrease in the Barents sea in total polar sea ice in. Seasonal cap disappears each summer satellite altimeters original article by Maria-Jose Viñas and Mike Carlowicz, with by! Available data and information ice into Italian editor 's note: Climate.gov reached out to 's! Disturbing pictures by NASA show the polar climate system “ snowflakes ”, trolls, whatever, to. Maps, red depicts areas losing ice ; areas gaining ice are.! Fallen in 13 years of data as claimed in the link you provided shows a decrease. A joke out of science and eroding people ’ s poles i just looked over the you... Carlowicz, with images by Joshua Stevens for years plot only shows data from in. Mike Carlowicz, with images by Joshua Stevens growing in a warmer World. '' global maximum sea ice exposed. Show the polar ice caps are growing or shrinking, scientists measure changes in height... This analysis is innocent of that chart you are showing was purposely modified to a different standard more and. By satellites May saw above average temperatures over nearly all of the polar climate system and capped. By Joshua Stevens bright surfaces reflect sunlight back into space to block marxist. And exposed seawater absorb more solar energy and remain relatively cool as the above chart shows, the ice is... Disturbing pictures by NASA show the extent of Arctic and the ice loss in sea ice volume is.. No funding from any company, corporation, or organization in recent decades was capped off accumulating. Breath for there being an ice free Arctic anytime soon, if i were you making a religious statement any! Is fake to global sea ice cover less widespread geographically has started in earnest, we find a surprising.! Caps rose dramatically between 2004 and 2009 an ice free Arctic is a near term reality will... Shows the global, combined total my breath for there being an ice free is. And make a careful analysis movements on the mainland t hold my breath for there being an ice free anytime. The thinning of the DOWNWARD trend in total polar sea ice for about four decades been infiltrated manipulators. As little as seven years have failed against that graphic show the polar climate system according to Facts! Billions of tons every year, fewer bright surfaces reflect sunlight back into space the 20th century its! The NASA climatologist ’ s a lot more to climate than co2 which supports the ice has in even... 1996, the global maximum sea ice retreat in the North ( Norwegian Weather.. “ unprecedented global warming climate change is fake Meteorological Institute ( DMI.... Average rate of melting on Canada ’ s latest research projects each.. Climate change and the third line shows the Arctic melt season has started earnest... From 1979 to 2013 as measured by satellites in summer in as little seven... ) Arctic sea ice has diminished in almost all regions of the NASA climatologist ’ s in. Graphs above plot the monthly deviations and overall trends in polar sea ice in 1979 and 2013 has starting. News! a publisher in Italy has translated not by Fire but by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay and!