Arctic Sea Ice (Jan 2000 - May 2009)

Satellite Observation of Arctic Sea Ice Concentration, Sensor: SSM/I 85 GHz.
Visualized on the visualization server of the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) by Carmen Ulmen/KlimaCampus Hamburg.

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• Arctic
• Sea Ice
• global warming
• climate change
• satellite

[mrteemumilto]

So KlimaC comes from climax and campus comes from your college fantasies?

[parks0213]

@raanaj AND increases in temperature are cause by increases in the Sun's activity...spots, flares causing solar winds which cause a reduction in cloud formation....clouds cool the air near the ground and cause precipitation which also cools the air. Solar winds disrupt the formation of clouds causing warmer weather and changing weather patterns. Even the IPCC claims that the temperatures have been cooling since 1998.

[parks0213]

@raanaj The lying politically and money ( grant) motivated scientists have purposefully misled millions of ignorant people and played into the hands of marxist/socialist anti-capitalists wanting to destroy the USA. Any scientist worth a shit knows that increases in CO2 in the atmosphere FOLLOWS increases in temperature...not the other way around.

[parks0213]

@raanaj There is absolutely no evidence of anthropogenic contribution to climate change. CO2 is only .054 % of the atmosphere . CO2 is a Greenhouse gas but H2O , which is also a greenhouse gas is 95% of the atmosphere. Solar winds, cause by significantly increased solar activity,and a doubling of the Sun's magnetic fielf during the 20th century...these have caused changes in weather patterns.

[raanaj]

"No evidence at all" for anthrocentric climate change. Yet every climatoligst on earth thinks that's what's happening; some random youtube poster knows better? The change in global temps far exceeds the pace of any previous recorded change due to sun activity, ice ages, whatever. Of course human activity has an effect; drive from country to city and you experience microclimate changes; it's completely reasonable to assume that the same thing happens on a mass scale; evidence confirms.

[RBAWilcox]

The earth goes through different glacial periods, during an interglacial period like the one were in right now there is no ice at the poles, just like during the time of the dinosaurs there was no ice at the poles, and there are glacial periods where the earth plunges into an ice age. People are concerned about nothing the earth will continue to lose its ice at the poles until the next ice age starts up in the next 20,000 years or so.

[uknowispeaksense]

@costatropicalgranada What about the effect of the change in CO2 atmospheric composition in terms of isotope ratios? C4 and CAM plants tend to favour heavier Carbon isotopes than C3 plants. Introducing CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels alters the isotope ratios in the air and so benefits one group of plants over another potetnially altering ecosystems so to use a stement like ' it is positively beneficial to vegetation' is not only oversimplified it is also patently incorrect.

[badbobby101]

i dont see no change so whats this big deal with global warming?

[costatropicalgranada]

@m0deth

That experiment has no relevance at all to CO2 in the real world.

The amount of CO2 used is grossly disproportionate. And secondl, the earth is not a closed system. It is an open, dynamic system involving myriad factors that do not apply in a glass jar experiment.

There is no evidence that CO2 is harmful to humans or animals; and it is positively beneficial to vegetation. And there is no evidence at all that human produced CO2 causes global warming.

[m0deth]

@costatropicalgranada

I seem to recall a few simple experiments on the Discovery channel that proved the effects of CO2 in a small enclosed environment. These were conducted to prove something related to the show, and to illustrate how gases can affect their environments. Anyone familiar with scientific process can deduce, from those findings, that scaled up, there would be a significant impact. This is not to say it would or wouldn't be catastrophic....but to claim no shred is sheer ignorance