At current rates of Arctic sea ice growth, the entire Earth will be completely covered with ice no later than July 2020.
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
My prediction was made using the Nobel Prize-winning Climate Science™ linear extrapolation, which showed the Arctic would be ice-free in 2014.
Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014
Read more at Real Climate Science
I didn’t laugh out loud, but I did crack a huge grin. Thanks mate…..
Mark Twain had a similar point about the Mississppi River:
“In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
– Life on the Mississippi
Our current modelers seem to have learned nothing. Thanks for pointing this out again, Tony.
This is gold. Thank you.