{"id":272010,"date":"2010-02-03T06:10:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T11:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5040"},"modified":"2010-02-03T06:10:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T11:10:03","slug":"are-the-polar-ice-caps-melting-by-rebecca-terrell-new-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272010","title":{"rendered":"Are the Polar Ice Caps Melting? by Rebecca Terrell, New American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=509\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Rebecca Terrell&quot;\">Rebecca Terrell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  \u201cThe entire polar ice cap \u2026 could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years.\u201d So claimed global-warming magnate Al Gore at last December\u2019s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist he referenced, Dr. Wieslav Maslowski, is a Department of Oceanography professor with the U.S. Naval Post-Graduate School. Maslowski denied making the prediction in an interview with the U.K. Times Online. \u201cI would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.\u201d A shamefaced Gore admitted gleaning the \u201cballpark figure\u201d from a conversation he had with Maslowski several years ago. Yet only days before Gore\u2019s Copenhagen speech, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) published a report of Maslowski\u2019s research. It read, \u201cShould the present trend of sea ice melt continue, some models suggest that the Arctic Ocean could become near ice free in the summer time within one decade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To further confuse things, DMI records show practically identical total sea ice area measurements in the Arctic for the past five years. However, DMI qualifies its data, noting that the age and thickness of Arctic ice is changing dramatically and citing research from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado that Arctic sea ice is melting at a rate of 11.2 percent per decade. The NSIDC explains that more ice than usual has been melting in summer months during recent years. New ice cover is relatively thin, weak, and more vulnerable to melting. Remarking on the data, NSIDC Director Mark Serreze said, \u201cWe still expect to see ice-free summers sometime in the next few decades.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: thenewamerican.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5040\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xqUnT4RMYBKwLen39XpXVpwPkOU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xqUnT4RMYBKwLen39XpXVpwPkOU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xqUnT4RMYBKwLen39XpXVpwPkOU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/xqUnT4RMYBKwLen39XpXVpwPkOU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/w7ZQn7_zaIk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Rebecca Terrell \u201cThe entire polar ice cap \u2026 could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years.\u201d So claimed global-warming magnate Al Gore at last December\u2019s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The scientist he referenced, Dr. Wieslav Maslowski, is a Department of Oceanography professor with the U.S. Naval Post-Graduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}