Klimaatgekte: Independent *loog* over ijsvrije Poolroute

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Ik heb zowaar *de echte bron* van het bericht gevonden. Het wordt erger en
erger... Het gaat om een persbericht van Reuters van afgelopen *woensdag*.
Dat staat hieronder (ik heb flauwekul over ijsbeertjes weggelaten). Ziehier
hoe we door Geel gemanipuleerd worden...

Het zou hier wel eens kunnen gaan om een aanval op Sarah Palin door het Obama
kamp.

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Bron:  Reuters
Datum: 27 augustus 2008
URL:   http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2745499020080827?sp=true


Arctic ice second-lowest ever; polar bears affected
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Arctic sea ice shrank to its second-lowest level ever,
U.S. scientists said on Wednesday, with particular melting in the Chukchi
Sea, where polar bears were recently seen swimming far off the Alaskan coast.

This year's Arctic ice melt could surpass the extraordinary 2007 record low
in the coming weeks. Last year's minimum ice level was reached on September
16, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Even if no records are broken this year, the downward trend in summer sea ice
in the Arctic continues, the Colorado-based center said. Last year's record
was blamed squarely on human-spurred climate change.

"No matter where we stand at the end of the melt season it's just reinforcing
this notion that Arctic ice is in its death spiral," said Mark Serreze, a
scientist at the center. The Arctic could be free of summer ice by 2030,
Serreze said by telephone.

This year's data "primarily reflects melt in the Chukchi Sea off the Alaskan
coast and the East Siberian Seas off the coast of eastern Russia," the center
said.

The Chukchi Sea is home to one of the world's largest polar bear populations
and also includes a vast area where the United States sold oil and gas rights
worth $2.66 billion last year.

On Tuesday, Arctic sea ice stretched over 2.03 million square miles, which is
less than the 2005 mark of 2.05 million square miles, set on September 21 of
that year, the center's analysis found.

The record drop in 2007 left a minimum ice cover of 1.59 million square
miles. The fabled Northwest Passage was open for the first time in memory.

Government scientists reported seeing at least nine polar bears swimming in
open water over a six-hour period on August 16, including one more than 50
miles offshore, World Wildlife Fund officials said.

(...)

Summer ice melt in the Arctic is seen as a strong indicator of climate
change, and feeds on itself in what scientists call a positive feedback loop
where warming exposes dark sea water, which absorbs more solar radiation than
the white ice.

Arctic sea ice is sometimes dubbed Earth's air conditioner for its ability to
moderate world climate. In the last decade, this ice has declined by roughly
10 percent.

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(c) 2008 Reuters

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