Melting Trends: Arctic Ice Completely Gone by 2020?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/18/A_REALLY_Inconvenient_Truth_Dan_Miller

Environmentalist Dan Miller discusses images of arctic ice melting trends at the North Pole. He argues that light once reflected off the surface of the melting ice is now being absorbed by water, priming a feedback loop that will continuously accelerate the melting process.

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Dan Miller's presentation focuses on why the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports are actually best case scenarios. For example, IPCC climate models do not include the effect of melting permafrost releasing greenhouse gases, even though the permafrost is melting now and it holds more greenhouse gases than all that mankind has ever released.

Another example is that IPCC predictions of sea level rise only take into account thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of glaciers; the largest factor, disintegration of glaciers, was not included because it is hard to model. The result is that sea level rise will likely be substantially higher this century than the IPCC predicts.

Miller discusses several other potential catastrophes that are not included in IPCC predictions and also discusses tipping points that could put climate change solutions out of our reach in years or decades, the psychology of climate change, and why it is difficult for people to respond to the threat posed by a warming earth.

His talk concludes with a discussion of ways to address climate change and the risks and opportunities that companies face due to the climate crisis. - Berkeley Cybersalon

Dan Miller is Managing Director of the Roda Group. He is the former president of Ask Jeeves, Inc., a Roda Group affiliate company. He is currently working with a number of Roda Group affiliated companies to assist them with their business development efforts. Mr. Miller sits on the Board of several Roda Group companies.

At the end of 1994, Mr. Miller retired from his position as Executive Vice President of TCSI Corporation (Nasdaq: TCSI), a company he co-founded with his Roda Group partner, Roger Strauch. Mr. Miller retired from the Board of Directors of TCSI in June of 1997. TCSI is a leading provider of integrated software products and services for the global telecommunications industry.

Prior to TCSI, Mr. Miller was a systems engineer at Hughes Aircraft's Space and Communications Group where he was responsible for designing communications payloads for commercial communications satellites.

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[plbuster]

They said the Icecap would be gone by 2008. Well...Its 2012. Now they push the date back to 2020....

[RkicF8]

Ionosphere heaters are melting the ice, but the sun doesnt shine there, hows it going to heat the water?

[vengencefrom1979]

@seennlisten think he'll get as rich as some exxon ceo's? probably not. in fact, exxon (et al) are behind the 'cover up' of global warming and are still at it. current trends show that the ross ice shelf will go within the next three years, when it does if you own beach front property you can kiss it goodbye.

[ianhowe007]

Once its gone we can start drilling for oil

[seennlisten]

no, the world wont get warmer, you will get paid for this sh%$ and travel to Hawaii, thats what'll happen

[TheInfamousCanadian]

This is not true, those crazy peta people are going around melting that ice with their lighters.

[vodkanpilsrs99]

@KanadianKush604 wow what a stupid reply to my comment. do i have to be really specific for you to understand? if that is what you want then i'll rephrase: what, realistically, can (or is) being done to combat the depletion of ice caps due to excessive melting during warm periods which outweighs the precipitate?

[eddiespiked]

its very unlikely that sea ice will be completely gone that fast. I mean if you look at the first years it never went on a straight line , it took curves and changed. It could happen again in the future. and to say that an ice free arctic would cause the permafrost to melt and then cause runaway climate change by melting more than what man makes is a prediction that could happen, but its extremely pessimistic

[KanadianKush604]

@vodkanpilsrs99 REALLY? I didnt know ice melted after awhile......................it happens

[mtklaric]

ForaTv can be full of shit...this time it really is full of it.