The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday. "The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said at a briefing.Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute to global warming. Asked if this summer will match last year's record low sea ice in the North, Overland [said] that is likely. "The tea leaves point to a minimal amount of sea ice next September, that would be the same as we had last summer, 40 percent loss compared to 20 years ago," he said.
| Tea leaves? That's got to be more scientific than anything else I've seen on global warming ... |
That might be at the root of their problem. They try to divine the weather by looking at tea leaves and arrows, instead of going outside and looking around.