So winter officially starts next week, but that doesn't mean I can't decide where to go for spring break. Cancun is over done, Hawaii...been there, Caribbean, South Padre Island and Florida just don't do it for me anymore. So maybe perhaps in a few years when the Arctic Ocean is free of all that ice, it'll be time to head up north for some fun in the sun. You may think polar bears and eskimos, but those pesky animals and people will be gone once climate change shatters their way of life for the last few thousand years.
From the BBC:
Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss.
Summer melting this year reduced the ice cover to 4.13 million sq km, the smallest ever extent in modern times.
Remarkably, this stunning low point was not even incorporated into the model runs of Professor Maslowski and his team, which used data sets from 1979 to 2004 to constrain their future projections.
"Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.
"So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative."
So you see, we might even be able to party up there sooner than everyone had thought before. Besides, 2013 isn't that far away, we'll probably see ice-free summers up there before the first section of the 2nd Avenue subway is finished. By the time that "T" line makes it down to my neighborhood, I'll have a beach home in Antarctica. Why all the way down there you ask? Well most of the tropical island people frequent now will probably be underwater.
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