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GliderGuider

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8. A quote from Paul Beckwith on Neven's blog.

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Tue Mar 19, 2013, 10:43 PM

Mar 2013

Beckwith is an Ottawa geology PhD student, and ice and climate watcher par excellence:

For the record; I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean. The cracks in the sea ice that I reported on my Sierra Club Canada blog and elsewhere over the last several days have spread and at this moment the entire sea ice sheet (or about 99% of it) covering the Arctic Ocean is on the move. Clockwise. The ice is thin, and slushy, and breaking apart. This is abrupt climate change in real-time. Humans have benefited greatly from a stable climate for the last 11,000 years or roughly 400 generations. Not any more....

http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/crack-is-bad-for-you-and-sea-ice/comments/page/2/#comments

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We're SCREWED [View all] XemaSab Mar 2013 OP

Your point? Pray, enlighten us. aristocles Mar 2013 #1

what he is trying to say is, MindMover Mar 2013 #4

Oh aristocles Mar 2013 #5

Thank you for explaining it Isoldeblue Mar 2013 #6

Hopefully this wonderful planet will self heal before we destroy it ... MindMover Mar 2013 #10

can't tell where this is at all FirstLight Mar 2013 #2

Check the Arctic Warpy Mar 2013 #3

Try this link - the graphic it displays has the coastlines and islands superimposed hatrack Mar 2013 #18

Thanks, that helps. What a frickin' train wreck. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #22

That looks like a gyre pscot Mar 2013 #31

Screwed, blued, and tattooed reteachinwi Mar 2013 #7

I disagree with the first definition OKIsItJustMe Mar 2013 #24

A quote from Paul Beckwith on Neven's blog. GliderGuider Mar 2013 #8

His comment is easier to find at this: dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #13

I had an uncomfortable feeling when the first cracks showed up a month and a half ago GliderGuider Mar 2013 #9

If the report of the low cost, fast desalination technique actually works, maybe not. Lionessa Mar 2013 #11

The statement about sea rise comes from deniers ... MindMover Mar 2013 #12

Did you know the Salton Sea in Ca. was caused by a spill, and a town flooded? AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2013 #14

Sea ice melting doesn't cause sea level rise. Nihil Mar 2013 #15

I can't make out anything in that image OnlinePoker Mar 2013 #16

See .18 for an image with overlay. Nihil Mar 2013 #19

Add in 24 hour sun, ... CRH Mar 2013 #17

This comment is accurate: Ghost Dog Mar 2013 #20

Whoa!!! truebrit71 Mar 2013 #21

Looking forward to launching my boat directly into the ocean... aristocles Mar 2013 #23

We are in the 2-3 most dangerous weeks of Climate Change happyslug Mar 2013 #25

Except that Greenland is still an issue in the Arctic. longship Mar 2013 #26

There are TWO Ice Sheets in Antarctica, compared to one in Greenland. happyslug Mar 2013 #29

Sorry, I didn't go into the detail. longship Mar 2013 #30

Antarctica had the second HIGHEST minimum sea ice in the satellite record this year OnlinePoker Mar 2013 #34

Anyone tracking methane output? It's getting, uh, interesting. Readings as high as 2199 PPBv hatrack Mar 2013 #27

Kicking for this aspect too. (n/t) Nihil Mar 2013 #33

And kicking for the most important thread of the year to date hatrack Mar 2013 #28

K&R again! FirstLight Mar 2013 #32