70 Trillion cubic feet of New Arctic Ice - Modern Survival Blog – surviving uncertain times. January 24, 2011, by Ken Jorgustin Permalink 3-transitional images, Jan-2009, Jan-2010, Jan-2011 Comparing imagery of January arctic sea ice from 2009 to 2011 sourced from the U.S. Navy Polar Ice Prediction System, it appears as though the ice sheet has thickened substantially. That is, the arctic ice during January 2009 compared to January 2010 compared to January 2011, all purposefully compared during the same month of each year.
This observation is looking at ice thickness – not surface area – although some retreat of 1 meter ice can be seen in the Labrador Sea. Up to 500,000 square miles of the arctic sea region may have thickened from approximately 5 feet thick during January 2009 to approximately 10 feet thick during January 2011. The ice thickness scale color, dark blue, corresponds to about 1.5 meters, or about 5 feet. The color green represents about 3 meters, or about 10 feet. might as well round it to 70,000,000,000,000 cubic feet It’s getting colder out there! Sep-2008 vs. Ice Age Now. Science: Another Ice Age? In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims.
During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have... Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it One Week Digital Pass — $4.99 Monthly Pay-As-You-Go DIGITAL ACCESS — $2.99 One Year ALL ACCESS — Just $30! Author claims we're in the grip of a mini ice age - Sunday Sun. Darren was appointed editor of the Chronicle in September 2011, following a six-year spell as editor of the Evening Gazette in Teesside.
He has held a number of senior roles on regional newspapers across England, Scotland and Wales over the last 15 years and is now editor-in-chief of Trinity Mirror North East. Why Earth may be entering a new Ice Age - by Terrence Aym. By Terrence Aym Created on : May 19, 2010 All data points to the sun as the primary source of short-term and long term climate change on Earth.
While volcanic eruptions such as the current one in Iceland can affect short-term weather conditions over a region, planetary climate is governed by solar activity-or lack of it. The first inkling that something had changed with the sun was the recognition of an abnormal sunspot cycle. Then, astronomers noted that all the planets were heating up-even little Pluto on the outskirts of our solar system . While climatologists on Earth massaged the data to make it seem like man-made global warming was real, major climate changes were occurring on Mars. During the peak of the global warming debate, the prestigious National Geographic Magazine published a ground-breaking article by Habibullo Abdussamatov in 2007, " Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says . " Ice Age: The Meltdown Official Site. Ireland in the last Ice Age. View a summary of this chapter Ireland owes the physcal shape of its landscape almost entirely to the actions of the last Ice Age.
The Ice Age left the surface relief much as it now is, except that coastlines have been significantly altered by a subsequent rise of the sea-level caused by the melting of the ice [1]. For reasons not yet fully understood, our planet goes through cycles of warm and cool periods. The last cold spell began around 30,000 years ago and, in Ireland's neighbourhood, caused the Arctic ice to descend from the North Pole towards Europe. The photo on the left shows what Ireland would probably have looked like during the Ice Age. Over the next 2000 years the expansion of the ice slowed, reached equilibrium and then began to retreat. The low-lying lands around Ireland, Britain and Europe were slowly inundated as the sea rose at a maximum rate of around 6mm/year [3]. As the ice melted, rivers and lakes formed in the new landforms left by the glaciers.