UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 14, 2011 @10:31AM from the models-in-collision dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The United Nations' most recent global climate report 'fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift, and in some cases substantially underestimates these trends,' says a new research from MIT. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, released in 2007, forecasts an ice-free Arctic summer by the year 2100. However, the Arctic sea ice may be thinning four times faster than predicted, according to Pierre Rampal and his research team of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)."

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Re:Doesn't matter what they report by Sperbels · 2011-08-14 11:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

We do know that it's melting, and the only explanation that has any evidence to support it is that it's due to excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. I think it makes sense to reduce carbon dioxide emissions now.
Why? Because some cities may slowly flood? You're going to have to do a lot better than that if you want to convince the entire world that they can't burn coal and oil.