Important interview by Guy McPherson

For me this is one of the most important discussions Guy McPherson has had in recent years.

He caught up with Wieslaw Maslowski, one of the co-authors of a paper which projected the disapperance of Arctic ice by 2016,plus or minus a couple of years.

It seems he has modified his stance on this, but only somewhat.  He sticks by the basics (of the importance of ice volume instead of extent) and by saying that once a certain point ice could "fall off a cliff".

What I got most from this was the uncertainty - it calls for some ambivalence, especially over the timescales that exercise a lot of people.

Folks don't like uncertainty.

Wieslaw Maslowski talks with Guy McPherson about Arctic Ice

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105345

Here is an article Nafeez Ahmed wrote at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/09/us-navy-arctic-sea-ice-2016-melt?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=f2c1c3a666-DAILY_BRIEFING&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-f2c1c3a666-303421281