Trend of record low sea ice extents continue
- Andrew Wetzler
- Director, Endangered Species Project, Chicago
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- Posted September 17, 2008 in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Over at Planet Gore, the gremlins are hard at work trying to make the case that yesterday’s announcement that summer Arctic sea ice minimums are only the second lowest on record is actually a good thing. According to Edward John Craig, who approvingly cites a Tom Nelson post titled “Fraudsters at National Snow and Ice Data Center: This year's ice GROWTH "underscores accelerating decline", this new data is evidence of the polar bears “expanding hunting grounds.”
He even provides a graph, which does show a rise in minimum sea ice extent in 2008 compared to 2007:
Not surprisingly, this chart doesn’t really do justice to just how low today’s sea ice coverage is compared to prior years (represented by the dark gray line on top). Here’s another chart, helpfully provided by Andrew Revkin at Dot Earth and also from the government:
What was that about “expanding” hunting grounds again?
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John Liffee — Sep 17 2008 09:18 PM
Now that's a good visual. The gremlins should consider themselves duly punked.
Dena Spohn — Sep 23 2008 06:58 PM
I am constantly hearing that global warming is a hoax and that it is a result of natural causes and has happened before and that it is a lie that polar bears are drowning trying to swim between ice floes and starving because they can't get to the ice to hunt for seals. If people won't believe the documentaries and all the evidence presented by environmentalists and scientists not funded by oil/gas companies I don't know how we can convince people. Many people will be in denial even when global warming begins to effect them, personally. How many Katrinas do there have to be before people finally accept the truth?