120 results found related to North Pole May Be Ice-Free This Year

view last 24 hours or last 7 days
sorted by relevance or date

Related Blog Posts

Maslowski Sea Ice Citations

1 day ago ago from Global Warming

It goes without saying that predicting an ice free Arctic is a nervous business as this little tempest shows. I suspect that the models been worked on are not particularly robust and Dr. Wieslav Mawslowski is nervous over making too much of them My own prediction of an ice free arctic been possible as early as 2012, made in 2007 was based on a simple extrapolation of known evidence for ice loss over the past half century. I have ...

Related content

Alaska's northern coast eroding quickly

23 hours ago ago from Life in Small Bites Environment Blog

Parts of Alaska's northern coastline are eroding at rates of 35 to 40 feet a year, with great chunks of the tundra cleaving off the mainland and falling into the Beaufort Sea, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado. "As one that gets pretty excited about centimeter-a-year rates, this was pretty eye-popping," said Robert Anderson, a professor of geological sciences at CU and co-author of the study. The land studied by ...

Related content

Gore maintains his position on global warming, despite backlash

13 hours ago ago from Arctic Focus

Despite the backlash from both scientist and skeptics who believe his prediction to be extreme, Al Gore is sticking to his guns and still claiming that the North Pole could very well be ice-free within the next five years. While addressing members of the Copenhagen summit, Gore backed up his opinion by quoting an international report from earlier this year that said that the North Pole could see a loss of all of its ice by the year 2015. ...

Related content

Portions of Arctic Coastline Eroding, No End in Sight, Says New Study

1 day ago ago from Marine Animal News

The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a "triple whammy" of declining sea ice, warming seawater and increased wave activity, according to new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The conditions have led to the steady retreat of 30 to 45 feet a year of the 12-foot-high bluffs -- frozen blocks ...

Related content

The New York Times Has Been Predicting Polar Ice Melt for 128 Years

10 hours ago ago from Open Your Eyes News

Wall Street Pit Magazine Funny the New York Times has been reporting on the Polar ice melt for over 100 years, and usually blaming it on man. The dumbest is the 1959 story of the ice disappearing which was followed by 20 years of Global Cooling. From the Daily Telegraph (Australia ), Eternal Melting: From the New York Times, 128 years of looming polar doom:1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have ...

Related content

Related News

Nothing to see... move along.

Related Videos

Nothing to see... move along.