“you are probably looking at ice-fee summers by 2030. I’d call that a death sprital.”

Mark Serreze June 6, 2009

New NSIDC director on “death spiral” Arctic ice | Grist

“This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions.”

December 12, 2007

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would,”

Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer,

Longtime global warming skeptic Sen, James Inhofe, R-Okla , citing a recent poll, said in a statement, “Hansen, (former Vice President) Gore and the media have been trumpeting man-made climate doom since the 1980s, But Americans are not buying it.”

But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., committee chairman, said, “Dr. Hansen was right. ‘Twenty years later, we recognize him as a climate prophet.”

June 24, 2008

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice minimum, maximum or mean extent over the past 16 years.

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