Arctic Ice reforming?

Question

Now that the undersea volcano activity is subsiding.Will Al Gore be recommending a tax on volcanoes?

Answer 1

algore will be no more, check this out http://www.spaceandscience.net/id16.html

Answer 2

http://www.iceagenow.com/

Answer 3

haha,oh im sure he will try if his bank account gets low

Answer 4

This question is so nonsensical that it doesn't deserve a proper refutation...

Bloody ostriches!

Edit:

Take a look at the link Mist Hurricane posted - it's hilarious!

It's one person (of course claiming to be smarter than all those scientist-type fellows) who has posted a whole bunch of links to media reports that basically support AGW but then he uses them to refute AGW!

How?

He starts with a paranoid-conspiracy agenda that the media always lies to us. Therefore anything that is in the media is a lie. As AGW is supported by the media, it must not be true - cool logic.

Thanks, Mist, for sharing that with us...

...but I just had a thought: you weren't serious were you??!

Answer 5

making the estimate that the ice is about 3 meters thick in the arctic. (Of course, it is much thicker some places and much thinner in others.) Then the energy of Mount St. Helens would melt about 100 square kilometers of ice in the Arctic. (Assuming the energy were transmitted straight to the ice, without heating the water.)

The bottom line

The Arctic goes through some serious changes in sea ice extent every year as the season change. The sea ice extent changes by about 10 million square kilometers every year. 100 square kilometers is about one hundred thousandth of that. It would take a thousand volcanos the size of Mount St. Helens every year to account for just 1% of the yearly Arctic ice loss.

The numbers for the above conclusion are worked out <a href="http://climatesanity.wordpress.com...

Best Regards,

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Answer 6

don't point out facts,it gets in the way of them making money

Answer 7

Wait, I thought the loonies wanted to create artificial volcanoes to spew pollution into the air to reduce global warming. Should they not be trying to get more volcanoes to erupt?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/...

If you spend the time to read what these loons say, you will realize they are insane.

Answer 8

You might want to do a little more research before posting nonsensical questions with clearly false premises. It is more damaging to your own image than Al Gores.

If you think this chart shows that the ice is "reforming", you might want to visit an Optometrist:

http://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaicenews...

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

"Arctic sea ice extent averaged for June stood at 11.44 million square kilometers (4.42 million square miles), 0.72 million square kilometers (0.25 million square miles) less than the 1979 to 2000 average for the month. This is very slightly (0.05 million square kilometers; 0.02 million square miles) lower than the average extent for June 2007, but not the lowest on record, which occurred in June 2006"

If you post this question again in October (when the annual ice reformation is actually occurring), you might sound more informed.

Answer 9

Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2008 | 10:17 AM ET

CBC News

There's an upside to the extreme cold temperatures northern Canadians have endured in the last few weeks: scientists say it's been helping winter sea ice grow across the Arctic, where the ice shrank to record-low levels last year.

Temperatures have stayed well in the -30s C and -40s C range since late January throughout the North, with the mercury dipping past -50 C in some areas.

Satellite images are showing that the cold spell is helping the sea ice expand in coverage by about 2 million square kilometres, compared to the average winter coverage in the previous three years.

"It's nice to know that the ice is recovering," Josefino Comiso, a senior research scientist with the Cryospheric Sciences Branch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, told CBC News on Thursday.

"That means that maybe the perennial ice would not go down as low as last year."

Canadian scientists are also noticing growing ice coverage in most areas of the Arctic, including the southern Davis Strait and the Beaufort Sea.

"Clearly, we're seeing the ice coverage rebound back to more near normal coverage for this time of year," said Gilles Langis, a senior ice forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa.

Winter sea ice could keep expanding

The cold is also making the ice thicker in some areas, compared to recorded thicknesses last year, Lagnis added.

"The ice is about 10 to 20 centimetres thicker than last year, so that's a significant increase," he said.

If temperatures remain cold this winter, Langis said winter sea ice coverage will continue to expand.

Answer 10

What volcano are you referring to, the recent talk of volcanoes was related to the Antarctic not the Arctic, I assume to try and blame them for melting ice except scientists have known about these for decades. Any effect on the Arctic by one or several under water volcanoes would only have a small localised effect, the entire Arctic is showing obvious signs of melt around its entire edge, volcanoes are not causing this.

The heading of your question is incorrect anyway whether GW is happening or not, the Arctic doesn't start to refreeze till the end of August.

willow : what does a site trying to look like a science site prove, everyone knows you can find almost anything in Google searching for "Space and Science Research Center" returns how many hits "0" a site of such power that they only seem to have bothered to register the name till next month and it was only created last Nov.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/re...

BB: the story you refer to doesn't seem to exist on the CBS site I searched on "Josefino Comiso" - "Davis Strait" and "Beaufort Sea" and got nothing

and this from the National Snow and Ice Data center

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index....

seem to directly oppose such an idea.