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From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Big chill for climate doom: Arctic Sea ice is expanding
URL: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/big-chill-for-climate-doom-arctic-sea-ice-is-expanding/
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In addition, the Arctic sea melt this summer was the lowest in 15 years, and the expanse of Antarctic sea is well above average. Fri Sep 10, 2021 - 9:22 am EDT This story was originally published by the WND News Center (WND News Center) – Less than 10 years remain before the oft-claimed “tipping point” for the planet, but sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is the highest it’s been in nine years, increasing more than 30% from last year, while the Antarctic’s level is well above normal. That’s according to the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility’s High Latitude Processing Center, pointed out climate-change skeptic Tony Heller. He noted the Arctic Ocean gained a record amount of sea ice during the first week of September. “Most years the Arctic loses ice, but this year ice extent has increased” more than 77,000 square miles, he wrote on Twitter, adding the news likely would not be reported by CNN, BBC News or the New York Times. Meanwhile, the sea melt this summer was the lowest in 15 years, and the expanse of Antarctic sea is well above average. In January 2019, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D- N.Y., drew attention to the claim of some climate- change activists that a U.N. climate report the previous year concluded the planet had only 12 years to address climate change. Speaking at an annual MLK Now event in New York City, she defended the trillion-dollar price tag she proposes for addressing climate change through her “Green New Deal.” “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us, are looking up, and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?’” Ocasio-Cortez’s claim of impending doom relies on the 2018 U.N. “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC,” which did not conclude the world would end in 12 years. The climate scientists who produced the report warned that any rise in global warming of more than 1.5 degrees celsius by 2030 would result in drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. (WND News Center) – Less than 10 years remain before the oft-claimed “tipping point” for the planet, but sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is the highest it’s been in nine years, increasing more than 30% from last year, while the Antarctic’s level is well above normal. That’s according to the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility’s High Latitude Processing Center, pointed out climate-change skeptic Tony Heller. He noted the Arctic Ocean gained a record amount of sea ice during the first week of September. “Most years the Arctic loses ice, but this year ice extent has increased” more than 77,000 square miles, he wrote on Twitter, adding the news likely would not be reported by CNN, BBC News or the New York Times. Meanwhile, the sea melt this summer was the lowest in 15 years, and the expanse of Antarctic sea is well above average. In January 2019, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D- N.Y., drew attention to the claim of some climate- change activists that a U.N. climate report the previous year concluded the planet had only 12 years to address climate change. Speaking at an annual MLK Now event in New York City, she defended the trillion-dollar price tag she proposes for addressing climate change through her “Green New Deal.” “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us, are looking up, and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?’” Ocasio-Cortez’s claim of impending doom relies on the 2018 U.N. “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC,” which did not conclude the world would end in 12 years. The climate scientists who produced the report warned that any rise in global warming of more than 1.5 degrees celsius by 2030 would result in drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. However, 2018 marked 30 years of failed climate-alarm predictions, with many forecasts of a “point of no return” and a “critical tipping point” having long passed. In July 2019, as WND reported, the left-wing thought leader Think Progress warned that the deadline was actually only a little more than a year, because the planet would be doomed if President Trump were re- elected in November 2020. ‘Greatest threat to global public health’ This week, the New York Times reported a number of leading health and medical journals declared climate change “the greatest threat to global public health” and called on governments to respond with the urgency with which they confronted the coronavirus pandemic. The declarations followed the announcement that the Biden Health and Human Services Department will treat climate change as a public health issue. The Daily Caller pointed out that governments and public health bodies could invoke emergency authority as they have in response to COVID-19 and enforce drastic measures such as curbing private-vehicle use, consumption of animal products and fossil fuel drilling. A study published in Nature Climate Change in March found that during the 2020 lockdowns, carbon emissions fell by about 2.6 billion metric tons in 2020. A pandemic-scale lockdown once every two years would produce an equivalent decline in emissions over the long-term, the researchers concluded. “If climate activists were allowed, they would take us from COVID lockdowns straight into climate lockdowns,” JunkScience.com founder Steve Milloy told the Daily Caller. “Now that they’ve seen arbitrary lockdowns successfully imposed under the guise of a ‘public health emergency,’ they can’t wait for federal, state and local declarations of a climate emergency to achieve the same sort of dominance over us.” Reprinted with permission from the WND News Center |
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From: Akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: “Most years Arctic loses ice, but this year ice extent has increased"
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“Most years the Arctic loses ice, but this year ice extent has increased” more than 77,000 square miles... One year in most doesn't exactly sound like a trend. It sounds like an anomaly, but that's just me. But grasp whatever dwindling straws you can. |
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From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: “Most years Arctic loses ice, but this year ice extent has...
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One year in most doesn't exactly sound like a trend. True. Perhaps it may be the beginning of a turnaround. We'll have to wait and see. At least the year did not add to the loss. |
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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big chill for climate doom: Arctic Sea ice is expanding
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more crack... "The source "lifesitenews.com" is an ultra-conservative Christian outlet, producing propaganda pieces en masse." https://www.reddit.com/r/EuropeMeta/comments/chpkoc/why_is_lifesitenewscom_not_on_the_list_of_banned/ and WND: World News Daily Report Straddling the line of fake news and the occasional seed of truth is World News Daily Report. By cobbling together misattributed stolen photographs (and often using extant, long-circulating rumors), World News Daily Report has published several viral claims often preying upon readers’ religious beliefs, including hoaxes about a newly-discovered eyewitness account of Jesus’ miracles, an ancient rumor about chariot wheels found at the bottom of the Red Sea, and a very old yarn about the discovery of giant skeletons reworked as the tale of a coverup perpetrated by the Smithsonian Institution. However, World News Daily Report frequently branches out to science-based fakery, including japes about the destruction of the world’s oldest tree and another about the discovery of a Megalodon shark in Pakistan. https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/ |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big chill for climate doom: Arctic Sea ice is expanding
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It's wikipedia ...but fwiw supports snopes as well as reports WNDR as satirical (like "the Onion")... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_News_Daily_Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_satirical_news_websites |
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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Big chill for climate doom: Arctic Sea ice is expanding
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the facts: Figure 1a. The graph above shows Arctic sea ice extent as of September 1, 2021, along with daily ice extent data for four previous years and the record low year. 2021 is shown in blue, 2020 in green, 2019 in orange, 2018 in brown, 2017 in magenta, and 2012 in dashed brown. The 1981 to 2010 median is in dark gray. The gray areas around the median line show the interquartile and interdecile ranges of the data. Sea Ice Index data. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center The decline in sea ice extent during August was relatively slow but steady after a pause in ice loss around August 9. The average daily loss was 33,000 square kilometers (12,700 square miles) per day, although by the end of the month the pace of ice loss increased to 51,000 square kilometers (19,700 square miles) per day as areas within the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea started to lose more ice. The monthly average extent for August 2021 is 5.75 million square kilometers (2.22 million square miles) (Figure 1a). This is 1.03 million square kilometers (398,000 square miles) above the record low for the month set in 2012 and 1.45 million square kilometers (560,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average. The average extent for the month ranks tenth lowest in the passive microwave satellite record. By the end of the month, large areas of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas were covered by low concentration ice (25 to 75 percent; Figure 1b); some of this ice may yet melt away or fall below the 15 percent concentration threshold adopted for calculating ice extent. Many other areas have unusually low extent, such as Fram Strait and north of Svalbard and Franz Josef Land. As noted in our July post, open water persists north of Greenland in the Wandel Sea, an area that has rarely been open in past years. A small area of ice persists in the eastern Kara Sea (Figure 1c). At this time of year, any remaining sea ice loss is primarily driven by melt from heat absorbed in the ocean mixed layer. Compaction from northward winds may also reduce ice extent. |
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