Arctic shrinks by an Alaska and 3 Arizonas in August

I think this is worth repeating from the article above

"Why all the melting? It is hot, hot, hot near the home state of our new global-warming-denying GOP VP:

In a typical year, the daily rate of ice loss starts to slow in August as the Arctic begins to cool. By contrast, in August 2008, the daily decline rate remained steadily downward and strong.

we are killing our planet..soon Gaia will have her revenge..or has she already??

the proof for global warming keeps adding up......

Why are we focused on the ice loss over the last 5 months? Look at it over time and the loss is insignificant. The "melting season" is almost over... then it will be "freezing season" again. I guarantee the rate that the Arctic gains ice will not make news headlines at all. The global warming scare is ridiculous. One person who should know about that first hand is Palin.

When I first read the title and saw that the Arctic lost mass equal to one Alaska and 3 Arizonas, I thought, "How ironic that the two biggest dangers to the environment are being represented by their respective states in this tragedy."

People are so jaded towards subjects of climate irregularities by flippant misinformation.

It frightens me that it could take near-apocalypse to penetrate the guilt sheath of the average person.

This kinda looks like a problem.

http://ourcivilisation.com/aginatur/pointlss.htm

Temperature records indicate that the Arctic has actually cooled by 0.88° C over the past fifty years.

Corrective environmental policies would have a minuscule impact on the climate. According to its own projections, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's own plan would spare the earth only a few hundredths of a degree of warming by middle of the next century.

Climate change is a natural phenomenon and nothing to be scared or concerned about. Humans have never had and will never have an impact on the earths temperature - negative or positive.

This has nothing to do with guilt. I care very much for the environment and do all I can to be a good steward of our resources - not because I think the earth is in jeapardy, but because its the right thing to do.

How many Illinois and Delewares is that?

@ justinjdean

I think it is worth noting that the "source" in the above post (Competitive Enterprise Institute) is a conservative think-tank and advocacy institute, that receives major funding from the Tobacco Industry, the Auto industry, the Pharmaceutical industry, and of course, the Oil industry.

As far as I can tell, the purpose of the CEI it to help major corporations fight Government regulation. I see no evidence that they have any special interest, or expertise, in climate, or other scientific issues, beyond the direct impact they have on corporate interests.

Flippant misinformation perhaps?

Then what about the 31,000 American scientists who have signed the petition against the scare of global warming? http://www.oism.org/pproject/

Are you going to argue that all of these scientists are funded by big bad oil companies too?

You people who pretend to have a concern for the environment are actually harming it by giving into the hype and scare of climate change.

"The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

They just call them deniers. As if denial isn't the very ESSENCE of the practice of Science. I love when people throw that term around without the slightest notion of how anti-scientific and anti-intellectual it is and without the slightest notion of how their use of the term so clearly tips their hand and shows that their platform is more about coercion than it is about science.

What amazes me is why the two of you are even on this website. Obviously your intelligence far surpasses that of the world's scientists and the very obvious shrinking ice, the horrific storms, the animals that are dying, and the folks that no longer have homes due to flooding.

Why don't you sit with them and tell them that none of this is happening. Then we can all feel better.

seems difficult, in my opinion, for the pro-global warming people to get their message across to the anti-global warming people. many of these people are the same ones who have disagreed on aspects of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. there are facts about the misinformation and mismanagement of the wars, global warming deals mostly with speculation, maybe. if the republicans ignore the facts leading up to and during the wars, what chance to the global warming "alarmist" really have?

all i know is that of all the environmental engineering professors ive had since getting to college, every single one of them believes that global warming is man made due mostly to carbon dioxide and methane emissions. even if everyone who believes in climate change is wrong, it doesnt mean we shouldn keep polluting the way that we do.

When you say "Alaska and three Arizonas" like that it sounds like you are playing cards. Darn, and all I have was a pair of Rhode Islands and a Hawaii.

It's not exactly an endorsement of the American public's intelligence if they have to be talked to in terms of states; surely saying the Arctic is shrinking by X number of square miles each year should be enough to get through.

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fuck

Is it me or is it getting warm in here?