Southern Sea Ice at Historic Levels

Another hole in the Al Gore "sky is falling" scaremongering over globaloney!

Report: Global Sea Ice at 'Unprecedented' Levels
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
5/6/2008

...An Aug. 19, 2007 CBS “60 Minutes” segment warned melting sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere was endangering the penguin, another species often trotted out by global warming alarmists.

“Getting manhandled may ruffle their feathers, but it was key to discovering their fate,” “60 Minutes” contributor Scott Pelley said. “These are grown penguin chicks chasing their mothers for food, which she delivers beak to beak. Soon, the chicks will go to sea to hunt for a shrimp-like crustacean called krill. The krill grow beneath the sea ice, but in the warming ocean, the sea ice is melting away.”

“So the penguins have been going to sea and starving to death?” Pelley asked Sue Trivelpiece of NOAA’s Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division.

“The chicks are declining and we think they just can’t find the krill,” Trivelpiece replied.

Penguins Rest Easy Tonight

From NOAA's National Climatic Data Center; 15 April 2008 sea ice report:

After an historic dip in sea ice levels in the Southern Hemisphere in 2006, the 2008 result was a spectacular and historic rebound.

The northern hemisphere is showing a slower rebound, which probably means we will continue to be bombarded with heart wrenching stories of polar bears drowning for at least another year.

Time Running Out for Alarmists

It seems every week, sometimes every day, we get a new story indicating that global warming is NOT the worldwide emergency the envirozealots insist it is. Yesterday, Curt posted that results from a worldwide series of sophisticated ocean sensors anchored on buoys has undermined the zealots claim that the earth is warming. The key phrase in that report is: "Actual observations trump computer models." An extensive array of scientific tools have been deployed in the last few years to provide the hard data which has been missing from this discussion.

Unfortunately for the envirozealots, as it is in the sea ice data, sea buoy data and the new Aqua Satellite, there is no hard evidence to support the conclusion that global warming is a crisis, let alone that anything man has done is making the problem worse, or could make it better!