Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity – Hanlon’s razor
Reuters Reports :
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS179323844520101001
Meanwhile back on planet earth, the record fast ice growth continues – as DMI ice extent approaches a new record high for the date.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Closeup below :
Ice is now nearly one million km² (17,000 Manhattans) higher than 2007.
It is now higher than at the same time of year for 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and if it keeps going also 2006
the quick frozen means the newly formed first year ice has more time to become thicker at least thicker the “regular” first year ice.
Just curious, why do you guys talk only about extent and never about volume? Which is the one that really matters? Is Arctic ice volume approaching a “record high”?
And, by the way, this is approaching a “record high” since when? 2005? How is it approaching a “record high” if it’s 2 million km^2 below the 1979-2000 average?
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
I make posts about ice volume here on a regular basis.
Uh-huh. Search finds five items for “ice volume”. Search finds many pages for “ice extent.” I stopped counting.
Answers to my questions?
1. Near-record since when?
2. Near-record how, if extent is 2M km^2 below the 1979-2000 average?
“why do you guys talk only about extent and never about volume?”
Fine, “virtually never.”
Now, about those questions…