Ice conditions expert Robert Gorman and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ecomuseum Jim Murray discuss global warming
Arctic Ice Conditions Explained
Ice Conditions Expert Presents Inconvenient Facts about Global Warming
-Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue - Ice conditions expert Robert Gorman spoke to members of the St Lawrence Valley Natural History Society at the Ecomuseum Thursday night about the loss of ice in the Arctic Ocean. He explained how some of these changes are due to natural oscillations but are augmented by the trapping of greenhouse gases because of human activity.
“The issue of global warming has been Hollywood-ized by Al Gore, to the point where there is such polarization that it’s impossible for anyone to have a rational discussion” said Gorman, who used satellite images to show how the ice in the Arctic Ocean shrunk dramatically last summer on the Alaska-Siberian side of the ocean. “It’s a wind related issue as opposed to a warming issue,” Gorman said. “The ice was blown out of the Arctic Ocean.” He added that there was also old ice movement through Baffin Bay where ice had never been seen before.
Gorman also pointed out that there has never been more sea ice in Antarctica than in December 2007.
“The MS Explorer sank in the worst ice conditions in 4 decades,” said Gorman, explaining that ships had been going in there for years and they didn’t realize that ice was going to be there. “A Norwegian cruise ship also hit an iceberg there,” he said. Gorman said that a lot of research is being misrepresented in the media 0because reporters often don’t understand the scientific findings.