Author Topic: Live from the North Pole! (Read 495 times)

Jehanne · « **on:** July 22, 2013, 11:22:42 AM »

Going, going, (almost) gone:

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html

(See the image, especially, to the right.)

parentsfortruth · « **Reply #1 on:** July 22, 2013, 11:35:24 AM »

Please enlighten me. What am I looking at here?

Jehanne · « **Reply #2 on:** July 22, 2013, 12:42:10 PM »

They are images from weather stations sitting near the North Pole:

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/index.html

Telesphorus · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2013, 06:58:03 PM »

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The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe.

Now, instead of 2 feet (0.6 meters) of freshwater slopping against a bright-yellow buoy, a remote webcam shows only ice and clouds.

Though the North Pole lake's 15 minutes of fame focused worldwide attention on global warming's effects on Arctic sea ice, the melting is actually part of an annual summer thaw, according to researchers who run the North Pole Environmental Observatory.

http://news.yahoo.com/north-pole-lake-vanishes-204642659.html