Friday, May 04, 2007

CASSANDRA ALERT: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS WRONG Memo to Senator Inhofe, Micheal Crichton, and all Global Warming deniers: Some of them pesky climatologers, geophysicalists, and scienterrorists have finally admitted their fancy supercomputer generated climate change models are WRONG. In a study of Arctic sea ice, they 'fessed up; it turns out, after you throw out all the big words, the North Polar ice cap is most likely melting THREE TIMES FASTER than their models predicted: Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) found that satellite and other observations show the Arctic ice cover is retreating more rapidly than estimated by any of the eighteen computer models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in preparing its 2007 assessments. The study, "Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Faster Than Forecast?" will appear tomorrow in the online edition of Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). Julienne Stroeve of NSIDC led the study, with funding from NASA. NCAR’s principal sponsor is the National Science Foundation. The Arctic is highly sensitive to global warming.  However, the study shows that Arctic ice retreat is happening more quickly than any of the IPCC models have indicated.  "This suggests that current model projections may in fact provide a conservative estimate of future Arctic change, and that the summer Arctic sea ice may disappear considerably earlier than IPCC projections," said Stroeve. <snip> "Because of this disparity, the shrinking of summertime ice is about thirty years ahead of the climate model projections," said NSIDC scientist and co-author Ted Scambos. Y'all can read the press release HERE. Just think. The long sought Northwest Passage will finally be open to shipping. Some Inuit village above the Arctic Circle in Alaska or Canada might become a booming freeport city, sorta like a Dubai of the North, ruled over by some Sheik of the Eskimos. At the very least they could open some casinos like the American Indian tribes of the lower 48. Hit the jackpot at Nanook's Big Igloo. Just think. Those polar bears won't have an ice floe to stand on. Just think. Instead of sushi bars, mukluk bars. All the surviving polar bears could be trained to perform in casino circus acts; Cirque du Soleil de Minuit. 7:48:37 AM    comment []