A Farewell to Old Sea Ice

Ignatius Rigor, who studies Arctic ice and climate at the University of Washington, has created an animation showing how the oldest thickest sea ice has been progressively flushed from the Arctic Ocean over the last two decades.
More background here:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/tag...
and here:
http://seaice.apl.washington.edu/

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[chookbuffy]

Great video and more importantly great science!

[nightvid08]

You are failing to distinguish between weather and climate.

[chookbuffy]

I would not recommend feeding this particular troll.

[chookbuffy]

We did mention them. Or I did at least. You can read about the study in my comments bellow. By the way the ice reduction is now at its 4th lowest on record and from most metrics looks to equal or beat the 2007 levels.

It is not about heads in sand but about understanding the science.

[brainbeau]

Are you a politician or something? Whose pockets are you in? You sound like a politician. A backwater one obviously, and corrupt. They all like knocking irrefutable science too.

[VictorLepanto]

Finding an idea in that haystack of lunatic ranting is impossible. If you actually had a thought, if you even know what a thought is, please isolate it from your vituperative dreck & re-present it w/ SOME semblance of coherence. Atleast so I can have some hope of understanding what you're driving at.

[brainbeau]

If this is what you think, why didn't you say it months ago? my guess is you had to go deep sea trawling for data that supports your views? If Arctic science is so complicated, why should anyone believe you btw? Basically it seems like you think AGW is a scam invented to cheat big business out of stinking up our planet even more. If the jury is still open, surely it is better to change course just in case it's real! Do you remember the Titanic? Or "too big to fail" banks? LOL

[VictorLepanto]

Hello Mr. Troll. My name is Victor Lepanto, do you have anything meaningful or even coherent to say?

[DonB41]

Why isn't it a "global" STAY-RICH scheme promoted by the fossil fuel interests? They have a lot to lose, just as the cigarette manufacturers did and do. But what really gets a lot of people is the blow to their ideology: the threat is big enough that only common action by all the world's governments can reduce the emission of CO2 to required levels.

It is depressing that each year's delay will increase the cost by $0.5 trillion 2020-30 where action now would cost about 1% of GDP.