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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 14 2017, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the did-they-expect-to-find-handwarmers? dept.

https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2017-03-13/arctic-ice-loss-driven-by-natural-swings-not-just-mankind-study

OSLO (Reuters) - Natural swings in the Arctic climate have caused up to half the precipitous losses of sea ice around the North Pole in recent decades, with the rest driven by man-made global warming, scientists said on Monday.

The study indicates that an ice-free Arctic Ocean, often feared to be just years away, in one of the starkest signs of man-made global warming, could be delayed if nature swings back to a cooler mode.

Natural variations in the Arctic climate "may be responsible for about 30–50 percent of the overall decline in September sea ice since 1979," the U.S.-based team of scientists wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Sea ice has shrunk steadily and hit a record low in September 2012 -- late summer in the Arctic -- in satellite records dating back to 1979.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 14 2017, @11:14PM (2 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday March 14 2017, @11:14PM (#479191) Journal

    Meanwhile Antarctica keeps growing and growing and growing...

    Not anymore... [nasa.gov]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @03:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @03:55AM (#479273)

    Thank you for that link.
    Impressive how much ice has vanished from antartica in the time lapse satelite images.

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @12:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @12:58PM (#479371)

    Please don't add any facts, this is republican thread!