Why don't scientists talk about the record ice levels for this year?

Question

I just watched Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch and two captains said, "This is the lowest the ice has come in many, many years!" The episode was called, "A race against the ice." They had to scoop up all of their crab pots before the ice made them disappear for two months.

Seems like the scientists would let us in on this anomolly......

So, where is this global warming?

Answer 1

your premise is wrong. the term scientist refers to any one who adheres to an arbitrary set of guidelines. this normally covers many fields other then global warming so saying all of them are idiots is just dumb.

now i dont see any links what are you referring too? how global warming is helping those crabbers or that there has been more ice in Antarctica. the latter has been talked aboutand is well studied.

PS so has the abnormally cold Antarctic.

Answer 2

well, the thing i know is that.  it has been prophetise that all the island of the world will desapear. so i guess that this is how it will happen, by the melting of the ice.  and another prophecy,  they will try to change things around but it will be too late as it has too happen.  

the scientists are maybe very intelligent but unfortunately they lost the sense of being smart too. money is the issue with them, not the peoples.

Answer 3

i saw that same episode today! good point... global warming is a hoax.  you cant expect the earths temperature to always remain a perfect constant.  it changes overtime and it maybe a tad warmer or colder now than it has been before, and it will be different in a few years!

Answer 4

It must be on vacation for a few months, wish it would come back.  Normally at this time of the year we are raking the lawn and right now we have a foot of snow.  I will hear the same excuse its global warming causing the cold weather. Frankly its just life and they need to get one, and stop scaring the youth of our country.

Answer 5

Because there aren't record ice levels all over the world. In any given year you can probably find somewhere in the world that has ice records for that specific location. Doh!

Those damned liberals and their facts again getting in the way of your truthiness.

Answer 6

I missed that one, but it doesn't surprise me one bit.

As Baz points out, the global temperatures have not increased at all over the last 7 years, although around 1997-8 weren't we already supposed to be seeing catastrophic warming and 10-20 feet rises in sea levels by now?

The really 'Inconvenient Truth' is the TRUTH!

When the facts are inconvenient, they are simply ignored by these lunatics!

Oh dear, I forgot that some people actually believe that the sea levels are already rising!

Aghhhhhhh!!!!!

Answer 7

Why would they want to jeapordize their AGW funding with facts. Nobody is willing to pay scientists study patterns that the layperson can see with their own eyes unless first they can introduce the perception that it may be a problem.

Weather has always changed and climate has always changed since the earth cooled down from a large piece of molten rock floating in space.

Change is constant, we cannot stop it, only adapt, no problem.

Answer 8

So you take your 'scientific' data from a 'reality' show?  Yes the ice re-freezes during the winter,so what! It's the extent of the melting during the summer that is the problem.  The ice that does re-freeze,is not as thick as it should be.  Scientists are not as stupid as the 'deniers' are!

Answer 9

You are really out of touch if you missed all of the news from last fall about record low Arctic ice. There was much fuss by the news media.

The Arctic ice rebounds each winter, but this year less ice formed, and the ice that did form is more thin and fragile than older ice. Scientists are expecting another melt down this summer.

Answer 10

The trouble of climate stabilisation, or even global cooling,  is that there isn't an excuse to tax it, short of introducing a tax on people who leave their fridge doors open.  There are many scientists in the debate on climate change; and there are respectable scientists on both sides of the debate.  The  trouble is the ones who get most of the publicity are the ones who receive government funding.  He who pays the piper calls the tune.

"The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 as well as every year since 2001. Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased. Temperatures across the world are not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory behind global warming – the greenhouse effect. Something else is happening and it is vital that we find out what or else we may spend hundreds of billions of pounds needlessly."  Source: New Statesmen, December 2007

http://www.newstatesman.com/200712190004

The article is well worth a read.

I posted an answer to a related question on Yahoo Answers some time ago, "Can you take the government seriously on carbon emissions?" http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Answer 11

The alarmists would have us riding horses again if they could do it!

Facts are : The global temp has not risen in the last 10 yrs.

Scientists have determined that the temp was 9 degrees warmer 125,000 yrs ago. (How many SUVs and industries were around then?)

Also a hurricane scientists released a press statement that says he now doubts the correlation between hurricanes and GW.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environment...

NASA scientists have also said the key to GW is ocean water temps.. and they dont see the water temps rising.

Bottom line.... we dont need to turn our lives upside down because some people believe Al Gores film is all facts!  However there is nothing wrong with everyone conserving energy as much as possible and recycling everything

Answer 12

Natural variability will offset any AGW, and GW potential is also misleading. In my perspective one could choose to look at any point of reference and make it a paramount factor. At what point would positive short wave forcing depend on ice thickness? I haven't read or heard from anyone about this. Just the type of ice and surface volume...not density...u got me thinking.

Answer 13

You haven't heard them talking about the weather? Really?

Well, what you're missing is the fact that global warming is a proven, measurable, global event. Weather in a particular region will be affected by a number of factors. For example, temperature changes in the water off South America cause storms in some areas, droughts in others.

What really is being affected is the GLOBAL environment, causing major destructive changes in the regional weather patterns.

It was in all the papers.

Answer 14

they dont discuss the other side of the issue because it proves them wrong. and they are wrong.

Answer 15

thats not true i heard of a

very famouse scientist which released

a dvd of his own few months ago ...

about global warming maybe

the scientists who are working for

governments and companies

are keeping there mouths shut ...

ice burgs are melting and the sea

water level is rising from what i know

its happening now ...

Answer 16

The ice melted back very far last summer.  The cold winter has caused surface freezing, but it's not very thick,  The volume of ice is still very low.  As always with global warming, you need to look at data and NUMBERS, not words.

"Back in 1908, Frederick Cook, the American who falsely claimed to be the first to reach the Pole, described the ice as being between 4.5 and 15 metres thick.  Weber says it has thinned to between 0.9 metres and 2.4 metres in the past decade.  That figure is backed up scientific data."

from: "North Pole ski treks on thin ice"

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/st...