Why climate models underestimated Arctic sea ice retreat: No Arctic sea ice in summer by end of century?
"results from the new model suggested that there will be
no artic sea ice in summer by the end of the century"
Full Story »
Tags
Topics:
Environment, Climate Change
Stats
# Tweets:
5 (as of 2011-10-12)
Editorial
Posted by:
Posted by Manfred Ostrowski - Oct 12, 2011 - 2:33 AM PDT
Reviewed by:
Manfred Ostrowski (review), William Hughes-Games (review), Gerald Zuckier (review)
Content Type:
Article
Edit Lock:
This story can be edited
Edited by:
Manfred Ostrowski - Oct 12, 2011 - 2:40 AM PDT
An interesting corollary to this is that when the Arctic ocean becomes ice free, it becomes a giant solar collector. If warm rising air over the ocean couples with katibatic winds down the flanks of Greenland, we get highly accelerated melting of the ice sheet. By by New York.
See Full Review »
(6 answers)
As with any popularization of a scientific paper, this must be approached with caution; a good paper always has to address the evidence against its findings, which never appear in the newspaper articles, which invariably deal in blacks and whites. That said, this article is better than most, giving some background; as would presumably be expected from Science Daily, rather than the National Enquirer.
This article does point out what few AGW opponents seem to understand; the bias in scientific publication towards conservatism in predictions. Thus this is one of many current papers which demonstrate newly discovered influences and/or positive feedback loops which will exacerbate global warming; and though there will be mitigating factors reported as well, the safe bet is that the majority of future papers on the subject will be in the nature of higher estimates.
See Full Review »
(7 answers)
Retrieving Comments
NT Rating
| My Rating
Ratings
Topics
(See these related stories.)
Links
Links
Thoughts: Arctic melting - no problem
The melting of the arctic sea ice is proceeding at least 2 decades ahead of the predictions of the most extreme models. It is most likely that we will see a virtually ice free ...
Posted by William Hughes-Games
