Watch out for polar bears. Image: Ingun Alette Mæhlum
PS> In Svalbard it is compulsory to carry a rifle, or have a guide with a rifle, when venturing anywhere outside the tree main settlements, Longyearbyen, Ny-Ålesund and the Russian mining town Barentsburg. (Pyramiden, another Russian mining town has been depopulate, but is still used for research and tourist activity in the summer season)
PS> The Svalbard Treaty was signed in 1920. Five years later, on August 25, 1925, it came into force and the archipelago officially became part of Norway.
It’s interesting how these articles always use daily MASIE instead of monthly SII to investigate long-term trends against the recommendations of the organizations that produce these data sets.
It’s almost as if they don’t really care about which data set they use as long as it supports their narrative.
Why didn’t you link to The Guardian article or, even better, the original publication it cited rather than something that had already been chewed twice and presented in a way that supports the blog author’s narrative rather than what is actually said in the paper?
The original paper indeed noted that the drop in sea ice extent has slowed down in recent years and gave a number of reasonable explanations. What about it? It’s not the only metric they are tracking.
And then went on to say nature somehow overcame anthropogenically forced sea ice loss. I don’t see any actual evidence for the anthropogenic forcing of sea ice loss as opposed to natural variation. Their models have always predicted anthropogenically forced sea ice loss, and they’re sticking to it.
As for actual evidence that humans are causing the world to warm, here it is; their sacred (unvalidated) models say so.
Models aren’t evidence.
If the world warms, humans did it - there’s no other possible cause, they say. Their models are magically right. And if it doesn’t warm, that’s natural forces winning temporarily, but the models will win soon. Just wait and watch.
That’s not science.
When has any prediction of ice-free Arctic Ocean ever happened? How many of those dates are we well past now?
I don’t know of any prediction of an ice-free Arctic Ocean (even for a day), made by any reputable institution that has gone yet.
Do you have any reference to back up your claim?
For those who wants to know more, here is a link:
The document, published as Norge i Nord – nordområdepolitikken i en ny virkelighet, states that the aim is lively northern communities where people choose to live and that also contribute to security and preparedness.
You realize that “Climate Depot” is a project of the organization Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which receives significant funding from coal companies such as Peabody Energy and Murray Energy. This “reporting” is highly biased and obviously helps to argue for continued reliance on coal, but you’re free to believe what you want.
Absolutely classic “shoot the messenger” tactics there, ombugge.
No argument at all from you, no science at all, no analysis at all, just plain old mud throwing … by someone else.
Ooooh, ooooh ooooh, look over there! Unicorns.
So what?
So what? I support the use of coal. So do you if you have any steel in your car, ship, house, or in your life at all.
Yup. But ombugge asked if I had any evidence of
And my link gave evidence.
Answer this. Did “Professor Wieslaw Maslowski from the Department of Oceanography of the US Navy predicted an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the summer of 2013?”
Answer this. Did this happen? “NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally’s prediction: “The Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”
What about this? “In 2012, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge (UK), Professor Peter Wadhams, foretold of a complete collapse of the Arctic ice sheet by 2015-2016 — predictably leapt on by theguardian.com.”
Do those examples provide proof that you can check yourself answer ombugge’s question/accusation? Please just answer that question … without reference to bias. Are those examples true?
@ombugge Are those examples true? Have I answered your question/accusation?
