Melting ice cools things - for now....
by Steve Withers
It's not hard to see why the already high and rising temperatures may have temporarily stopped rising. The polar ice began melting 20 years ago and that melting has been accelerating. At first slow it became very noticeable in the 1990s......at about the same time the temperatures stopped rising. Those temperatures have plateaued. They are not falling. Once the polar ice has melted beyond the next tipping point, there will nothing left of any significance to restrain greenhouse temperature rises. We aren't talking about just CO2 anymore. Methane is now being released in large quantified from Arctic seabeds. Methane has 20 times the greenhouse effect of CO2. People saying the temperature hasn't risen are like someone denying the day is hot because their (ice-filled) drink isn't hot.......yet.
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by Steve Withers
It's not hard to see why the already high and rising temperatures may have temporarily stopped rising. The polar ice began melting 20 years ago and that melting has been accelerating. At first slow it became very noticeable in the 1990s......at about the same time the temperatures stopped rising. Those temperatures have plateaued. They are not falling. Once the polar ice has melted beyond the next tipping point, there will nothing left of any significance to restrain greenhouse temperature rises. We aren't talking about just CO2 anymore. Methane is now being released in large quantified from Arctic seabeds. Methane has 20 times the greenhouse effect of CO2. People saying the temperature hasn't risen are like someone denying the day is hot because their (ice-filled) drink isn't hot.......yet.
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