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National Snow & Ice Data Center Warns of More Arctic Sea Ice Decline
International News • September 3, 2008
The most recent bulletin, issued at the end of August by the National Snow and Ice Data Center, has found that the extent of Arctic sea ice "has fallen below the 2005 minimum, previously the ...
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| Melting Ice? So what . . . it's GROWING in Antartica! | Old Pro | Sep 3, 2008, 3:39 pm |
| What ended the last Ice Age? | Chilly | Sep 3, 2008, 1:47 pm |
| RE: ROTFLMAOPIMP | 2lanelover | Sep 3, 2008, 12:54 pm |
| RE: ROTFLMAOPIMP | TP | Sep 3, 2008, 12:34 pm |
| ROTFLMAOPIMP | Bill Rempel | Sep 3, 2008, 9:05 am |
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Subject: ROTFLMAOPIMP
"Since the dawn of the satellite era?" Hah!
So the ice, which has been around for millions (billions? or maybe only 10,000 or so years if you're a Creationist), is now the lowest it's been since Sputnik?
Oh, wait! Sputnik was just an empty tin can launched for propaganda purposes. What they REALLY mean is that the ice is below the minimum set over the couple of decades that we've been measuring it. Out of so many millions of years the ice has been around (unless you're a Creationist).
I do have positive evidence that NSIDC employs Actuaries, however, because they use the phrase "the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent characterizing the past decade continues." It takes a credentialed actuary to turn a short-term movement into an extrapolated long-term trend.
I'd be laughing even harder at this hysteria if so many people didn't take it so seriously ...