Aw crap

[andygates]

According to boffins at the US National Snow and Ice Center, there's a greater than 50% chance that the ice over North Pole will melt completely this summer.  An iceless North Pole is not the world I know: this is TEOTWAWKI.  Only recently the predictions were for an iceless summer Pole in fifty to a dozen years. 

Comments

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

"Teotwaki"?

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Never mind. Google to the rescue.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

It's pish, though, isn't it?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

We'll soon find out.

Just for clarification

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I meant the situation, rather than the declaration.

Re: Just for clarification

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Do you mean pish as in "nonsense" or "bad"?

Re: Just for clarification

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

I mean "bad".

Re: Just for clarification

[andygates.livejournal.com]

And I concur. Realclimate has just picked up on it. There are North Pole webcams that I may have to haunt with a ghoulish sense of doom.

Feck feck feckitty feck. :(

Re: Just for clarification

[despaer.livejournal.com]

And this is before we see whether the thermohaline circulation will finally get messed up by this. Oh happy days I don't think...

Re: Just for clarification

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Even if this melt doesn't mess it up, the loss of so much sea ice could accelerate the loss of the Greenland ice sheets, and that's a solid "bugger" for the THC, if I remember right.

Re: Just for clarification

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Just for jolly, there's no evidence of an ice-free Arctic in the last 800,000 years. We didn't even exist as a species the last time this condition may have occurred... H. erectus was just about sussing fire.