Drill 'dat Som' Bitch...! Part Two

The New Sea Level
by Pat Darnell
That's right: Hit it! Gettin' ready for a sea level that has increased by 1/5 th of an inch upward over the last five years. Remember last time we retrieved information about when the Arctic will be ready for all out drilling?

Arctic will have first ice-free summer in 2015: Researcher
Kevin Rollason, Winnipeg Free Press
Published: Friday, December 05, 2008

WINNIPEG - The ice that has covered the Arctic basin for a million years will be gone in little more than six years because of global warming, a University of Manitoba geoscientist said.

And David Barber said that once the sea ice is gone, more humans will be attracted to the Arctic, bringing with them even more ill effects. [SOURCEWinnipeg Free Press 2008]

MooPig, in its haste to pump some Arctic crude, has allowed itself no free time to ponder why Cheney tells Bush, "Pardon me or else." We have been sitting on our collective asses while that single mom who wrote in, wonders how she is going to work another night shift with both her children wheezing and feverish,is crying at her ironing board watching the View. Or, how one other write-in reader, an inmate at Huntsville, who said "[He] wakes up every morning cursing himself because he knows he has to eat," has deepened brow furrows from the overhead fluorescent fired bulb in the socket that burns steadily brighter as each morning goes by. "One day I will rip that bulb out of the ceiling..." he pines away his hours of incarceration.

Yes, MooPig "Drilling and Arctic Crude Department" has been willing to be like its prisoner in his white room. They have too been sitting, waiting for Arctic land ice to melt away, revealing bounty.

Scientists studying sea ice will announce that parts of the Arctic north of Alaska were 9 to 10 degrees warmer this past fall, a strong early indication of what researchers call the Arctic amplification effect. That's when the Arctic warms faster than predicted, and warming there is accelerating faster than elsewhere on the globe.

As sea ice melts, the Arctic waters absorb more heat in the summer, having lost the reflective powers of vast packs of white ice. That absorbed heat is released into the air in the fall. That has led to autumn temperatures in the last several years that are six to 10 degrees warmer than they were in the 1980s, said research scientist Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

That's a strong and early impact of global warming, she said.

"Patience, me precious, patience."

Reference
AP; Arctic Ice Melt Of Over Two Trillion Tons Has Occurred Since 2003, December 16, 2008 07:10 AM EST | AP Retrieved HERE. the huffington post, Dec 18, 2008