Darker Arctic Boosting Global Warming

The Grim Reefer sends this news from an Associated Press report: "The Arctic isn't nearly as bright and white as it used to be because of more ice melting in the ocean, and that's turning out to be a global problem, a new study says. With more dark, open water in the summer, less of the sun's heat is reflected back into space. So the entire Earth is absorbing more heat than expected, according to a study (abstract) published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That extra absorbed energy is so big that it measures about one-quarter of the entire heat-trapping effect of carbon dioxide, said the study's lead author, Ian Eisenman, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. The Arctic grew 8 per cent darker between 1979 and 2011, Eisenman found, measuring how much sunlight is reflected back into space." The same decrease in ice contributes to the weather circumstances that led to extremely low temperatures across parts of the United States this winter.

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As we've always said

[0123456]

When the planet starts to cool down, the Global Warmers would blame that on Global Warming, too.

Re:nope

[MightyMartian]

But the Earth has got warmer. It doesn't mean every spot on the globe warms up.

If you're going to criticize a theory, at least have the wit to understand what it says. Otherwise, you just come off looking like an infantile moron.

There are two "Arctics"

[jamesl]

The Arctic and the Antarctic.

It's a good thing that the amount of ice in the Antarctic is growing.

Antarctic sea ice extent continues to track very high in January, reaching the second-highest monthly extent in the 36-year satellite monitoring record. New monthly extent records were set for each month between August and November, and December was tied for the record (within the limits of the precision).
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicen...

Re:Small problem

[Anonymous Coward]

"1979 and 2011"

32 years is an odd span.
Why not 30 years, or 25 years.
why not till 2012?
why not till 2013?
why not till Jan 2014?
If things are accelerating the way the lobbyist say, then why not?

guess the years after 2011 doesn't support the agenda.

Re:Small problem

[Pino Grigio]

Once the permafrost is 30% gone the climate hysteria curve flips to the hot side

There, I fixed it for you.