Or kickin' the can further down the road.Ice-free Arctic summers likely by 2050, even with climate actionReally? Why bother with “climate action” (undefined, undefinable, ever changing) if it’s not going to make a difference?
The ever present mascot for AGW"Much of the Arctic Ocean will become ice-free during summers by 2050 even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced sharply, according to a new study. "
Of course a Polar Bear image was included to reinforce the propaganda meme that has been employed for decades now. Perhaps? And I mean PERHAPS, if this comes to pass 30 years down the road, might it be due to something other then green house gasses? Since reducing green house gasses isn't going to make a difference? I'm just asking. Bearing in mind that there is research indicating 8000 yrs ago Arctic ice was at less then half the extant of the "record" low recorded in 2007. 8,000 years ago Arctic Sea ice Extant was less then half of the “record” low claimed in 2007Study archived at above link:
A paper published in Science finds summer Arctic Sea Ice extent during the Holocene Thermal Maximum 8,000 years ago was "less than half of the record low 2007 level." The paper finds a "general buildup of sea ice from ~ 6,000 years before the present" which reached a maximum during the Little Ice Age and "attained its present (year 2000) extent at 4,000 years before the present"
A 10,000 Year Record of Arctic Ocean Sea Life Variability
We present a sea-ice record from northern Greenland covering the past 10,000 years. Multiyear sea ice reached a minimum between ~8500 and 6000 years ago, when the limit of year-round sea ice at the coast of Greenland was located ~1000 kilometers to the north of its present position. The subsequent increase in multiyear sea ice culminated during the past 2500 years and is linked to an increase in ice export from the western Arctic and higher variability of ice-drift routes. When the ice was at its minimum in northern Greenland, it greatly increased at Ellesmere Island to the west. The lack of uniformity in past sea-ice changes, which is probably related to large-scale atmospheric anomalies such as the Arctic Oscillation, is not well reproduced in models. This needs to be further explored, as it is likely to have an impact on predictions of future sea-ice distribution.
Keeping in mind there have been many numerous previous claims of ice free summers in the Arctic. I guess the 2030 prediction. made earlier this year, is going to be a fail since they've kicked the can down the road to 2050?Arctic Ice Free Summer 2030
The study used statistical models to predict the future amount of Arctic ice, which suggested that the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer during the decade of the 2030s – most likely in the year 2034.
Remember All Those Breathy Predictions About An Ice Free Arctic By 2015? Nevermind...
Remember all those claims last year about accelerating Arctic ice loss and an ice-free Arctic by 2015 or 2020? Well, actually you don’t, because nobody ever made those claims. In fact, you heard exactly the opposite. You may think you heard claims about accelerating Arctic ice loss and an imminent ice-free Arctic, but they were merely figments of your imagination.
So when you click on this article published by the very same UK Guardian last September 17, you really aren’t reading the article title that you think you are reading:
“Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years.”
You really aren’t reading this gem of a quote from the story’s central “expert,” either.
"This collapse, I predicted would occur in 2015-16 at which time the summer Arctic (August to September) would become ice-free. The final collapse towards that state is now happening and will probably be complete by those dates."
When you click on this New York Times article, you also aren’t seeing what you think you see, because global warming alarmists apparently told us last year the 2012 Arctic ice season was unlikely to be repeated in 2013.According to our collective hallucination in the September 19, 2012 New York Times:
“‘The Arctic is the earth’s air-conditioner,’ said Walt Meier, a research scientist at the snow and ice center, an agency sponsored by the government. ‘We’re losing that. It’s not just that polar bears might go extinct, or that native communities might have to adapt, which we’re already seeing — there are larger climate effects.’”
Polar bears, without blood and never gorging after a kill, as reinforcing propaganda- It's gone on for years and years now. You'd think more people would've caught on by now?
“Now, some scientists think the Arctic Ocean could be largely free of summer ice as soon as 2020,”
No, alarmists never predicted Arctic sea ice would recede this year. They all predicted record Arctic sea ice growth, instead. Any such memories to the contrary are mere hallucinations. We know this because if the alarmists ever had made such doom-and-gloom predictions, it would prove to be yet another epic fail in the annals of silly and disproven global warming predictions.
Still more figments of your imagination: Ice Free Arctic 2012
A Nasa climate scientist, Jay Zwally, told the Associated Press in 2007: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012.”
National Geographic no longer a viable link but the url makes the pointhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071212-AP-arctic-melt/A… Ice Summer Ice Free by 2013
Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' As reported in 2007
Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years. Polar Bear Eating Seal
Arctic Ice Free 2016 or 2017?Next year or the year after the Arctic will be free of Summer Ice
“Scientist Peter Wadhams believes the summer ice cover at the north pole is about to disappear, triggering even more rapid global warming”