Comments on: PIOMAS N Polar sea ice volume for May https://habitablezone.com/2017/06/03/piomas-n-polar-sea-ice-volume-for-may/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2017/06/03/piomas-n-polar-sea-ice-volume-for-may/#comment-39422 RL Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:07:36 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=64579#comment-39422 Another <img src="https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AstonishingAdmirableChinchilla-size_restricted.gif" alt="" /> Another

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2017/06/03/piomas-n-polar-sea-ice-volume-for-may/#comment-39415 RL Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:36:54 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=64579#comment-39415 Another good visualization <iframe src='https://gfycat.com/ifr/SmoggySlightAmericanratsnake' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' width='1600' height='720' allowfullscreen></iframe> Another good visualization

]]> By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2017/06/03/piomas-n-polar-sea-ice-volume-for-may/#comment-39391 hank Sun, 04 Jun 2017 17:19:59 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=64579#comment-39391 We are celebrating this month the US Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway. You may recall this action from your history. An outnumbered US Navy aircraft carrier force ambushed the Japanese fleet, sinking four carriers at the loss of only one, and taking out many of Japan's planes and most experienced air crews. It was a blow from which the IJN would never recover and turned the tide in the Pacific to the Americans. It is considered by many to have been the turning point in the Pacific War. At the end of the Hollywood film made of this battle, it is said that Admiral Yamamoto (who had planned both Pearl Harbor and the Midway campaign) was told of the disaster by one of his officers, who added "What shall we tell the Emperor?" Yamamoto was said to have replied. "You can leave that to me." After the war, military historians recovered the official IJN report on the battle (see link below). Reading it today, it is really difficult to find any evidence that the Japanese Navy suffered its most disastrous defeat in history, and that it had essentially snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. It is a masterpiece of spin. I suspect something very much like that is now going on at EPA, NASA, and the White House. https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/j/japanese-story-of-the-battle-of-midway.html We are celebrating this month the US Navy’s victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway. You may recall this action from your history. An outnumbered US Navy aircraft carrier force ambushed the Japanese fleet, sinking four carriers at the loss of only one, and taking out many of Japan’s planes and most experienced air crews. It was a blow from which the IJN would never recover and turned the tide in the Pacific to the Americans. It is considered by many to have been the turning point in the Pacific War.

At the end of the Hollywood film made of this battle, it is said that Admiral Yamamoto (who had planned both Pearl Harbor and the Midway campaign) was told of the disaster by one of his officers, who added “What shall we tell the Emperor?” Yamamoto was said to have replied. “You can leave that to me.”

After the war, military historians recovered the official IJN report on the battle (see link below). Reading it today, it is really difficult to find any evidence that the Japanese Navy suffered its most disastrous defeat in history, and that it had essentially snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. It is a masterpiece of spin.

I suspect something very much like that is now going on at EPA, NASA, and the White House.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/j/japanese-story-of-the-battle-of-midway.html

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2017/06/03/piomas-n-polar-sea-ice-volume-for-may/#comment-39390 RL Sun, 04 Jun 2017 14:57:00 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=64579#comment-39390 <img src="https://climate.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/43_24_g-co2-l.jpg" alt="" />https://climate.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/43_24_g-co2-l.jpg If we continue burning fossil fuels this is the likely result <a href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v6/n9/full/nclimate3036.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The climate response to five trillion tonnes of carbon</a> <blockquote> These models simulate, in response to 5 EgC of CO2 emissions, global mean warming of 6.4–9.5 °C, mean Arctic warming of 14.7–19.5 °C, and mean regional precipitation increases by more than a factor of four. These results indicate that the unregulated exploitation of the fossil fuel resource could ultimately result in considerably more profound climate changes than previously suggested.</blockquote> https://climate.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/43_24_g-co2-l.jpg

If we continue burning fossil fuels this is the likely result
The climate response to five trillion tonnes of carbon

These models simulate, in response to 5 EgC of CO2 emissions, global mean warming of 6.4–9.5 °C, mean Arctic warming of 14.7–19.5 °C, and mean regional precipitation increases by more than a factor of four. These results indicate that the unregulated exploitation of the fossil fuel resource could ultimately result in considerably more profound climate changes than previously suggested.

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