Every summer, this thing called the sun points more directly at the top of the world. There’s a lot of ice up there, and some of it melts—every summer. When the sun is less direct, it freezes again. And just as the sun rises, the Climate Cult has returned to the ice-free arctic narrative again.
It always begins the same. Researchers say. You can read all the recycled hyperbolic nonsense here, but we can sum it up with these pull quotes.
Why it matters: The peer-reviewed findings on the effects of human-caused climate change in the region, published in Nature Communications, suggest the first ice-free summer could be in the 2030s. That’s a decade sooner than previously projected.
Threat level: “[W]e may experience an unprecedented ice-free Arctic climate in the next decade or two, irrespective of emission scenarios,” per the study.
Previously projected? There isn’t supposed to be any sea ice at the top of the world.
[Tony Heller has] a pile of news clippings declaring the Arctic will be ice-free by 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, along with “ice-free arctic warming warnings” from 1923, 1958, and 1972, all predicting the Arctic Ocean will be free of ice and if we don’t let the government regulate the crap out of us and spend all our money, right now, we’re all doomed. Doomed I tell you.
So, what exactly do they mean? In 2018 NASA published a piece on how sea ice had been thickening, contrary to the opinions of “researchers.” The year 2018 was another one of the more recent drop-dead prediction dates for an iceless arctic ocean, so the timing is curious. NASA announced that “This increase in growth rate might last for decades, a new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters found. This does not mean that the ice cover is recovering, though. Just delaying its demise.”
I had some thoughts.
Polar ice could thicken for decades. But that doesn’t mean it won’t melt again. Wow. Brilliant. Bravo. You’ve captured the very essence of the entire history of planet earth. Someone contact the Nobel Committee. Get The Academy of motion picture arts and sciences on the phone. If we can get a black lesbian transitioning to a gay Latino climate scientist bullied for their beliefs to say that I guarantee an Oscar.
The end is near, but melting sea ice has no impact on sea level at all, and past periods of ice-less arctic ocean allowed the greening of Greenland, so it’s irrelevant. And second, the only impact rising CO2 has had is on rising government debt, soaring electric rates, increased human rights abuses in third-world nations, and the fattening of Chicken-Little Al Gore, his bank accounts, and those of his fellow travelers.
The only thing that should be on thin ice is the narrative.
