I wonder what the (mostly) enclosed artic ocean looks like with ice(1980)...
As you can see both the Bering and fram straights are totally open and not at all bottlenecked up with ice
Oh wait what's going wrong Keynes? I thought you said there's free passage for ice all the way to Indian ocean
mmm yesss, theres Ice, for about 2/3 of the year, cuz ICE is what you were talking about when you mentioned various landmasses, like russia, and canada and greenland... Ice.
well ok , i gotta give you greenland, on account of it being mostly frozed over since ~ 1300 AD, and still thawing out (through entirely natural processes in the main) to this day.
and look, we are right back at the Little Ice Age that Pwned society, by bucking the gettin Warmer trend and causing a great deal of totally NOT ANTHROPOGENIC climate change.
change which created the uplsop trend that continues to this day (and many models show the global mean temps would still be increasing even if CO2 production remained at 1400-1500 ad Production levels.)and while certainly anthropogenic increases in CO2 are making some changes, that still leaves the Trillion Dollar Question, "How Much?"
cute picture though.
it still doesnt show canada, greenland and russia encircling the arctic sea, in fact it shows the arctic sea encircling THEM
and whats more i said WATER, not ice.
the only times there free passage for ICE is during the glaciations, which have apparently ceased their (previously) predictable cycling out of respect for your beliefs.
unless you count icebergs. they do in fact float out of the "Mostly Enclosed" Arctic sea, through the non-existent passages over the totally not imaginary and completely not arbitrary, entirely real barriers that separate the Arctic, from the Bering, from the Pacific from the Indian...
i bet even fish cannot pass!
hmm i just saw the top stanza, which amazingly enough, brings us right back to 1979!
again this was the PEAK of a breif (30-40 year long) cold spell in the midst of the holocene stability which has been so widely remarked upon.
THATS when all the global warming graphs start, Thats when the Hockeystick graph Starts, thats when Global Warming became the boogeyman under the bed, and as a return to Previous Norms began (still cooler than the holocene maximum, and MUCH cooler than previous interglacial maximums) that return to Pre-depression temperature levels, as predicted by natural cycles, suddenly became ALARMING, TERRIFYING, and CATASTROPHIC
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/data2.html