Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year
A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.
The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.
The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship attempting the route was forced to turn back.
Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century – a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading.
The disclosure comes 11 months after The Mail on Sunday triggered intense political and scientific debate by revealing that global warming has ‘paused’ since the beginning of 1997 – an event that the computer models used by climate experts failed to predict.
In March, this newspaper further revealed that temperatures are about to drop below the level that the models forecast with ‘90 per cent certainty’.
The pause – which has now been accepted as real by every major climate research centre – is important, because the models’ predictions of ever-increasing global temperatures have made many of the world’s economies divert billions of pounds into ‘green’ measures to counter climate change.
That’s gotta hurt.
More at the Daily Mail
So are the AGW cultists going to admit that the science was never settled now?
More importantly, can we have our incandescent light bulbs back now so we don’t need hazmat suits to change broken lights?
I predict the global warmists will try to tell us that because the cold is being DRAWN TO THE POLES, the rest of the earth is getting warmer.
Al? Al? not a peep from him. He must have been taken by the aliens that took the celebrities who were professing anti-war diatribes against Bush and now we hear not a single word.
Given that the poles have reversed on the sun, on schedule, the cooling trend is on schedule as cosmic ray effect on cloud formation changes. This comes as an OMG moment to folks who so desperately wish for a green agenda (Australia’s Carbon Tax hit them in the economy like a flotilla of lead dirigibles).
….sigh…..
And USA still doesn’t have a nuclear-powered ice breaker.