Fortunately, the Internet has a memory. Here’s some excerpts from the story by Damian Carrington. After reading it, I can see why they disappeared it.
The planet’s last great global ice melt left a benign and balmy climate in which civilisation was cradled: the new great melting heralds a grave threat to civilisation
Our planet is waving the white flag of surrender. But as the polar flag becomes ever more tattered, with holes scorched by hotter ocean waters, humanity pumps ever more globe-warming gases into the air.
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In 2007, a new record was set for the minimum summer sea ice cover in the Arctic had halved. This furious flag waving attracted attention. That year, the world’s scientists declared the end of any doubt that our addiction to burning fossil fuels was changing the face of the planet. Al Gore expounded his inconvenient truth and the world seemed set to act.
Today, that 2007 record is smashed and the shredded white flag is now flickering rathering than flashing. But the danger is greater than even, even if the alarm signal is frayed.
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Decades from now, will today’s record sea ice low be seen as the moment when our Earthly paradise gave up the ghost and entered a hellish new era? I sincerely hope not, but with this global distress signal failing to attract attention, I fear the worst.
You can read the whole article archived here: http://old-news.co.uk/category/guardian/
h/t to Tom Nelson
BTW there’s still ice at the pole, see it in the WUWT sea ice page
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UPDATE: It was offline earlier. I guess now that we showed the cat was out of the bag they decided to put it back online.
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“Will this be the first great tipping point to tumble the world into a new and hostile climate regime, as the cooling, reflective ice vanishes? Will the new, warm Arctic radically alter the temperate weather enjoyed by Europeans, for whom global warming has seemed a distant concern?”
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Reminds me of the end of a Rocky and Bullwinkle episode.
I thought Obama was supposed to be fixing this?
Believe it or not, I created a “Friday Sarcasm” post today titled “Climate Skeptics Forget the Obvious Intent of the Website SkepticalScience”:
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/climate-skeptics-forget-the-obvious-intent-of-the-website-skepticalscience/
Another Carrington event – fortunately this one was gone before it could do any harm 🙂
What would we do without the Grauniad to keep us on our toes (banging our heads against the wall….
This isn`t the first time, either.
The Guardian is a joke, initiating Custer`s Last Stand by hanging their hats on Arctic ice. Was it 0.06% of the cryosphere that disappeared during this season`s melt?
The Guardian has become quite a national embarrassment. It is a left wing version of the Daily Mail but takes itself seriously.
And as the overweight burden of hyperbole sinks slowly in the west….
To any warmist out there: when (not if) the ice finally disappears and nothing disastrous happens, will you finally shut the f*ck up?
Personally, I don’t know what you lot are moaning about, that was quite a good piece – for the Guardian!
I’ve seen a few comments in the odd forums, and it seems to be propagating too, it goes along the lines of: “the ice is melting becuase of man-made gloabal warming and because the ice is melting we will have a new ice age !”
Clearly, they posted the article too soon. The sea ice is scheduled to disappear in eight days. Let’s see if they re-post it next week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/sep/14/arctic-sea-ice-climate-change
REPLY: It was offline earlier. I guess now that we showed the cat was out of the bag they decided to put it back online. – Anthony
The link to the story works for me
REPLY: See the update
The article states:
“The last great global ice melt the planet witnessed came 10,000 years ago at the end of a deep ice age. As glaciers retreated, a benign and balmy climate emerged in which the human race has flourished. Our entire civilisation is built on the warm soils left as the ice sheets melted.
This new great melting heralds the polar opposite: the gravest of threats to civilisation. Removing the lid from the pole will release heat equivalent to fast-forwarding human-caused climate change by two decades, say scientists.”
To paraphrase: Ice melt and warming 10,000 years ago; very, very good. Ice melt and warming present time; very, very bad.
Can you say: non sequitur?
The Guardian is slowly crawling up it’s own backside. Eventually it will suffocate itself and die. Only ecofascists and barmy left wingers go near it.
Total sea ice < 10% less than LTM. Disaster disaster!! South Pole sea ice 0.95m sqm more. LIA, LIA!!
I had an interesting conversation with my thirty-something nephew over a few beers last weekend that was very illuminating. This is a very intelligent guy, 4.0 in college, database administrator, well-read and generally knowledgeable. So when the conversation made its way to CAGW, I pointed out its Popperian failure of being falsifiable. “There is nothing,” I said, “that would prove the hypothesis wrong to its followers.” He replied that yes there was, that if we completely quit producing CO2 (!) and the Earth’s temp didn’t fall, that would disprove it. I asked, “How about if we keep producing CO2 at current levels, but Earth’s temperature doesn’t keep rising — as it hasn’t for the past fifteen years or so.”
This got me a blank look and a repetition of his original “experiment.” I pointed out the impossibility of HIS experiment and the actually ongoing nature of MINE. Still no response.
So to me, this says that the understanding of the scientific method is not very widespread, even among the college educated — unless, of course, one was in the sciences (he was education). Perhaps schools should require a course on the scientific method around the seventh or eighth grade to help them understand science from post-normal- and pseudo- science. Or at least make them read Sagan’s “Candle in the Dark.”
Something.
Anyone notice what is happening in the Antarctic? Seems the Antarctic sea ice is considered a regional event but the Arctic sea ice is a global affair. Why?
Alas, the memory. Even Internet’s memory, once jogged by a researcher, can be sent down the memory hole. The above Guardian link is now giving me Error 404…
blackswhitewash.com says:
September 14, 2012 at 8:48 am
The Guardian is slowly crawling up it’s own backside. Eventually it will suffocate itself and die. Only ecofascists and barmy left wingers go near it.
Or those who, like me, love a good laugh.
Strange how they do not discuss the high level of Antarctic ice
Sorry, repost from another thread, but appropriate here;
With all this “melting” and “raising the white flag of surrender” going on the Wicked Witch of the West must be getting very nervous, very soon the Guardian will expect the only thing left in the Arctic will be a few “Munchkin Men” and a pair of ruby slippers.
As the data suggests as Arctic Sea Ice decreases Antarctic Sea Ice increases, isn’t there some sort of pattern to this? I dare say we’ll have Lucie Seigle (Grauniad Journo, ecosocialist) doing her little bit on the One Show magazine prog for the BBC any time soon. The Beeb News covered it a couple of days ago, ratchetting it up with all the hype & the soon be “ice free in the summer”!
“Today, that 2007 record is smashed and the shredded white flag is now flickering rathering than flashing.”
Never mind that the Arctic ICE VOLUME has essentially tripled or more since 2007. These guys live in a 2-D world. Would they be happy if the Arctic was ice covered but only 1 inch thick? THEN they would be touting ice thickness and not the area.
Ice volume is the only real measure in the Arctic as storms and winds can pile the ice up into small areas, masking the thickness below.
R Barker says:
September 14, 2012 at 9:09 am
Anyone notice what is happening in the Antarctic? Seems the Antarctic sea ice is considered a regional event but the Arctic sea ice is a global affair. Why?
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Because Antarctic ice is increasing. That was an easy one!