New NASA Video: Sea Ice, Arctic Warming, and Fires

September 26, 2020

Great video, typically good graphics, new faces explaining this year’s arctic extremes.
Great vid to share with climate science newbies.

Posted by greenman3610
Filed in Crock of the Week

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9 Responses to “New NASA Video: Sea Ice, Arctic Warming, and Fires”

Anthony William O'brien Says:

September 26, 2020 at 10:26 pm
I really thought we would have had a zero minimum before now. After 2007 and 2012 I thought Maslowski had it right. On the other hand the melting of Greenland is faster than I expected.

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- greenman3610 Says:
  
  September 27, 2020 at 6:33 pm
  2030-2040 time frame has been most often quoted in my readings.
  
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- rhymeswithgoalie Says:
  
  September 29, 2020 at 4:02 am
  Remember that the metric is “area with at least 15% sea ice”.
  
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indy222 Says:

September 26, 2020 at 11:21 pm
The exponential losses reasonably fit ending with the 2012 data, are now best fit with a linear loss rate, so maybe by 2030 we’ll be ice-free.

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- greenman3610 Says:
  
  September 27, 2020 at 6:34 pm
  all we really need is a “perfect storm” summer, and we could get there any year going forward.
  barring that, 2030 and beyond looks likely.
  
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rhymeswithgoalie Says:

September 27, 2020 at 4:12 am
Great vid to share with climate science newbies.

Just posted it to the Neurologica blog “Climate Change and Wild Fires” article. There’s a commenter there who blames the California fires on poor forest management practices.

A treasured quote: “That the fire situation is not a worldwide phenomena and in fact seems counter to the trends the scientists have thus far identified, makes the global warming hypothesis seem unlikely.”

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- greenman3610 Says:
  
  September 27, 2020 at 6:31 pm
  upcoming vid will address the “forest management” idea.
  It is a factor – Smokey the Bear was the Timber industry’s idea of a forester, and we would have been better served to follow the indigenous example, which I posted on recently.
  https://climatecrocks.com/2020/09/16/to-mitigate-fire-look-to-indigenous-knowledge/
  
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  - jimbills Says:
    
    September 27, 2020 at 7:45 pm
    I saw this recently. I’m sure you know what it covers, but it’s a good primer, and goes over forest management:
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-climate-change-is-affecting-wildfires-around-the-world
    
    Also, it explains why the total area burned globally per year has gone down consistently the last two decades. Interesting stuff – I wasn’t aware of that.
    
    I’m sure you saw this, too, but it’s recent news:
    
    Global warming driving California wildfire trends – study
    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54278988
    
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  - jimbills Says:
    
    September 27, 2020 at 7:46 pm
    And, for a laugh, there’s this:
    
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