Envionmentalist Tim Flannery has more science in his little toe than all the breathless deniers of manmade global warming who post their fiction on HC - combined.
Here’s the start of his CV from red.com:
”A noted explorer who has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers and named 25 living and 50 fossil mammal species, Tim Flannery has conducted research for more than 20 years in New Guinea and surrounding countries. He has served on the board of WWF International, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, and as an advisor to the National Geographic Society.”
there’s no immediate record of Flannery’s research extending into matters Arctic yet London to a brick he’s aware of the relentless decline in Arctic Sea ice extent, a sure sign of global warming.
the National Snow & Ice Data Center, a unit within NOAA, measures this by satelite and like many other vital signs of Earth the picture is grim.
“Sea ice loss continued at a brisk pace through the first two weeks of July. On July 13, Arctic sea ice extent stood at 7.95 million square kilometers (3.07 million square miles). This is 1.98 million square kilometers (764,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average.
” This extent is also just below the 2012 record and very close to 2020, the years with the lowest and second lowest (tied with 2007) minimum in the satellite record, respectively.
”By July 13, the Laptev Sea area, which began melting out much earlier than is typical for this time of year, was almost completely free of sea ice. This is broadly similar to last summer’s pattern, which holds the record for the lowest sea ice extent within the Laptev Sea at this time of year.
”The Northern Sea Route along the Russian coast is not yet ice free, and not really even close; as shown in the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR-2) imagery from the University of Bremen (Figure 1b), a substantial area of high concentration ice persists north of the Taymyr Peninsula and west of the Severnaya Zemlaya islands (the traditional “choke point”).
” The Northwest Passage through the channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago also remains choked with ice.”
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deniers of manmade global warming may not be aware of this, just like they’re unaware of many things happening now, but ice melt reflects a warming not cooling trend.
