Comments on: Multiple meltings of Arctic sea ice

By: Richard Treadgold

Richard Treadgold — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:39 +0000

Fascinating! Thanks, Jeff.

By: JeffT

JeffT — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:31:47 +0000

Hi Richard,
There has just been a book released in Australia titled “Hubert Who?”, a biography of the late Sir Hubert Wilkins. by author Malcolm Andrews.
I gleaned from an interview with Andrews that Sir Hubert Wilkins when he passed away in late 1958, his ashes were taken by USS Skate on the trip to the North Pole in 1959 and were scattered in a ceremony by the ships crew.
There is a Wikipedia entry on Sir Hubert Wilkins, which gives an outline of his rather remarkable life.
There are various feature named in his honor Wilkins Ice Shelf, Wilkins Sound.
Just FYI.
Good work, keep the bars—s honest
JeffT

By: Douglas Field

Douglas Field — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:01:40 +0000

In my view, Greenpeace has lost all credibility. It seems to me that it uses alarmist tactics shamelessly in its advocacy to shut down any form of enterprise. It seems to bereft of any thinking that might be constructive for human endeavour but rather is driven by a Malthusian form of negativity.

Douglas

By: Australis

Australis — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:56:01 +0000

The regular melting and re-freezing periods have no correlation at all with levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

But they are well correlated with fluctuations in sea ice in Antarctica. The mass of Arctic sea ice lost in the Northern summer was exceeded by the mass of Antarctic sea ice simultaneously gained in the Antarctic winter.

The alarmists constantly criticise references to regional events, pointing out that global averages are what matter.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:25:58 +0000

This TVNZ article appeared last Saturday:

Grave fears over Arctic ice melt

Greenpeace says the second largest Arctic sea ice melt in recorded history has grave implications for wildlife like polar bears, and the planet as a whole.

The US-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre says the scale of the retreat is behind only 2007′s record melt.

Greenpeace says it’s a clear signal of how climate change is causing the rapid shrinking of the Arctic sea ice cap.

It says an Arctic free of summer sea ice could destabilise global weather patterns.

Greenpeace New Zealand campaigner Simon Boxer says the dramatic thaw sends a clear message to the New Zealand government.

He says the setting up of new frontiers in extreme oil, Solid Energy’s preparations to dig up six billion tonnes of lignite in Southland, and Fonterra’s ongoing use of palm kernel, all have to stop.

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/grave-fears-over-arctic-ice-melt-4405685

By: Anthropogenic Global Cooling

Anthropogenic Global Cooling — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:09:36 +0000

Here’s an interview with Patrick Moore on the green movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUx2hgxXFfg

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:41:44 +0000

I have just started reading Patrick Moore’s “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout – The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist”

Moore was the co-founder of Greenpeace, and he claims that it became overrun by political activists (“peaceniks and neo-Marxists” to use his own terms) in the mid-Eighties.

He describes the current Greenpeace as “anti-intellectual, anti-science, and ultimately, anti-human”