Open Thread

I agreed with your assessment of Dinkins.

On global warming….

Kyoto – Arctic ice reported back to 1979
levels. Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent
months, global sea ice levels now equal those
seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also
drew to a close. Ice levels had been tracking
lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly
recovered over the past four months. In fact,
the rate of increase from September onward is
the fastest rate of change on record, either
upwards or downwards. This data is being
reported by the University of Illinois’s Arctic
Climate Research Center, and is derived from
satellite observations of the Northern and
Southern hemisphere polar regions.
Each year, millions of square kilometers of sea
ice melt and refreeze. However, the mean ice
anomaly — defined as the seasonally-adjusted
difference between the current value and the
average from 1979-2000, varies much more
slowly. That anomaly now stands at just under
zero, a value identical to one recorded at the
end of 1979, the year satellite record-keeping
began. Earlier this year, predictions were rife
that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008.
Instead, the Arctic ice saw a substantial
recovery.
Researchers had expected the newer sea ice,
which is thinner, to be less resilient and melt
easier. Instead, the thinner ice had less snow
cover to insulate it from the bitterly cold air,
and therefore grew much faster than expected.
We have attached the article where this data
was initially reported, as well as the University
of Illinois’s Arctic Climate Research Centers
letter of response to that article:
http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=13834
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/global.sea.ice.
area.pdf

Al??? Al Gore????

some of the posters yesterday were less than nice let us say.
As for today, 4 words: “global warming my ass”.

What happened Benson? I clearly wasn’t reading all the threads yesterday. What’s up?

This place needs more Republicans.