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Alarmist scientists who predicted that the North Pole could
be “ice free” this summer as a result of global warming have
been embarrassed after it was revealed that Arctic ice has
actually grown by around 30 per cent in the year since
August 2007.
Back in June, numerous prominent voices in the scientific
community expressed fears of a mass melting of the polar ice
caps, including David Barber, of the University of Manitoba,
who told National Geographic Magazine, “We’re actually
projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for
the first time [in history].”
“This summer’s forecast—and unusual early melting events
all around the Arctic—serve as a dire warning of how quickly
the polar regions are being affected by climate change,” adds
the article.
In February, Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian
International Polar Year Secretariat, told Xinhua, “If Norway’
s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice
cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible
judging from current conditions.”
As per usual, the reality has failed to match the hype of the
climate doomsayers.
According to collated data from the NASA Marshall Space
Flight Center and the University of Illinois, Arctic ice extent
was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on
the August 12, 2007. This is a conservative estimate based on
the map projection.
The video below highlights the differences between those two
dates,” reports The Register. “As you can see, ice has grown
in nearly every direction since last summer - with a large
increase in the area north of Siberia. Also note that the area
around the Northwest Passage (west of Greenland) has seen a
significant increase in ice. Some of the islands in the Canadian
Archipelago are surrounded by more ice than they were
during the summer of 1980.”
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But what of the Antarctic down south? Figures tell us that ice
coverage in the year since August 2007 has grown by nearly
one million square kilometers.
As The Register article notes, “The Arctic did not experience
the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar
Year Secretariat. It didn’t even come close. Additionally,
some current graphs and press releases from NSIDC seem
less than conservative. There appears to be a consistent
pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss.”
A general cooling trend across the planet is now clearly
apparent as sunspot activity, the main driver of climate
change, dwindles to almost nothing.
As we reported last week, A top observatory that has been
measuring sun cycles for over 200 years predicts that global
temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next two
decades as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet
drastically cools down, potentially heralding the onset of a
new ice age.
While the mass media, Al Gore and politicized bodies like the
IPCC scaremonger about the perils of global warming and
demand the poor and middle class pay CO2 taxes, both hard
scientific data and circumstantial evidence points to a clear
cooling trend.
How man-made global warming advocates will spin this one
remains to be seen - maybe they will just continue to adopt
their current tactic by claiming that any geological or weather
event whatsoever, be it hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts or
floods, temperature increase or decrease, and even a 30 per
cent growth of the polar ice cap - is a result of that evil life-
giving gas that we exhale - CO2.
Arctic Ice Grows 30 Per Cent In a Year
(source: Blacklisted News .com)
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