Climate Change?
Scientists are reporting that Artic ice is melting faster. I will await Greenpeace going out in boats full of ice to try to cool it down, but these guys aren't blaming it on Global Warming as enviromentalists would define it.
The scientists stopped short of directly blaming the melting trend on global warming but said they have few other explanations at this point.It is quite possible, that like hurricanes, there was an increase in Artic ice in the 1960s-1970s, and the data is not accurate for then. This evidence is not conclusive.
During the 1990s, a cyclical atmospheric circulation pattern called the Arctic Oscillation was believed to have been pushing sea ice out of the region and into adjacent waters. But the oscillation has weakened in recent years, and yet the melting continued and even accelerated.
“Something has fundamentally changed here, and the best answer is warming,” said Mark Serreze, another researcher at the snow and ice data center.
Sea ice records in the Arctic are sketchy before 1978. Since satellite observations began in earnest, researchers said Arctic ice has been retreating at a rate of more than 8 percent per decade.
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