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Originally Posted by ssneade
hiya, jack. been doin' well? i heard yer glacier isn't receeding, it's migrating............
nov55.com/oceans.html
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Just back from teaching 2 ISPA instructors' courses in beautiful BC, land of the retreating glaciers. Staying home until a brief trip to Yuma and San Diego. Next scheduled trip is a Yachtmaster Offshore instructors' course in late March. That should give me lots of time to keep you guys in order
There might be something to that article about ice over land.
But
Nature reports
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Arctic sea ice has declined slightly less dramatically this year than in the past couple of years. But the seasonal minimum, reached this week, is still the third-lowest on record since satellite radar measurements began in 1979, reinforcing a marked 30-year downward trend in summertime ice extent.
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And posted today
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Polar shipping routes have finally been unblocked, thanks to the virtual disappearance of the multiyear ice spanning the Arctic Ocean, according to an Arctic expert.
For centuries, enormous sheets of multiyear ice reaching up to 260 feet thick have impeded the way of ships looking for a short cut through the fabled Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
However, Canada’s Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, David Barber, noted that the ice is vanishing at an unbelievably fast rate.
In a presentation to Parliament, Barber said, "We are almost out of multiyear sea ice in the northern hemisphere."
The small amount of multiyear ice can be found shoved up against Canada's Arctic archipelago, quite a distance from any possible future shipping routes.
Scientists have found a connection between higher Arctic temperatures and melting sea ice to the greenhouse gas emissions that are held responsible for global warming.
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Even I will admit that Gore's prediction of a 67 meter rise is rather farfetched and allows the global warming deniers too much to riducle.