Two global warming stories that are worth noting. The first comes from Science Daily:
So other oceans might be warming solely due to global warming–but not the oceans they studied! It’s a sign of the times that scientists would even feel compelled to stipulate as much. Who cares what their sense is of the things they haven’t studied? Obviously, their colleagues. As their findings are so damning–that any warming in the North Atlantic can’t reasonably be tied to global warming–without such a nod to their alarmist peers, they’d surely be locked out of the faculty lounge for good. Also, I think this chart is extremely interesting. It’s tiny, but you can find the larger, original copy here. A few weeks ago, the Scrapbook reported on the remarkable recovery of sea ice in the Arctic after this summer’s “record” thaw. (I put record in quotation marks only because (a) I’m skeptical of records that are only reliable to a few decades back and (b) obviously there have been more drastic thaws if one looks at a longer time line.) Well, it now looks as though there is more sea ice floating on the world’s oceans than there should be…or at least more than we have observed, on average, over the last 30 years. If I’m reading the chart right–and I’m no climatologist, but it looks pretty straightforward–there is some 1 million square miles of excess sea ice floating around out there. So when do we get that big New York Times story on how there’s too much sea ice?
The red line at the bottom shows the global sea ice anomoly. As you can see, there is currently a positive anomoly.
