Early indications are that this summer will be quite different from the last two. 2009 and 2010 both had persistently above normal temperatures in much of Canada, which led to early melt in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp2.html
Summer 2011 will start with considerably more multi-year ice than any of the last three years, and temperatures will probably be cooler. Romm may have to work very hard this summer to spin his cataclysmic message of “hope.”
http://www.livescience.com/12970-cremated-child-alaska.html
Humans survived climate change!
I seem to recall certain people going on about last year having more multi year ice as well and that the ice extent would increase .. and then were wrong.
What’s your guess for minima extent this year?
I guess from your post that you think the ice will be slow to melt come Spring, we shall have to wait and see.
How are extents at the moment by the way? Antarctic as well??
😉
Andy
Multi-year ice has increased every year since 2008.
Tell me what the wind will be like all summer and I will tell you where the ice edge will finish up.
Weather is not climate, but climate is 5 years now. But only if it’s hot as well.
lol, really? Andy? Certainly, I’m not one to carry another’s water, but……
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/search_august_forecast.png
Click there to see how wrong he was.
Here’s a prediction for you. The sea ice will go up or down, and so will temps. They will sometimes increase or decrease simultaneously and sometimes asynchronously.
Click here as to why this is important……http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/hottest-year-ever-update-first-snow-in-san-francisco-for-35-years/#comment-40272
Calling it a night.
This is really all just naval gazing. More or less ice proves nothing except that ice mass varies.
“Paper: Current Arctic Sea Ice is More Extensive than Most of the past 9000 Years”
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2010/09/paper-current-arctic-sea-ice-is-more.html
Early predictions November 2010 at WUWT …
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/23/joe-bastardis-2011-arctic-sea-ice-prediction/
JB went on record for 5.5 km^2.
That’s million of course: 5.5 million km^2.
“…and Chukchi Seas.”
Why does this sentence make me want to eat pizza at a kid’s restaurant?
Cold temperatures far away from the Arctic Ocean should have no effect, unless there is some as-yet-unknown nonlocal thermal conduction effect which there is absolutely no evidence of (but if proven would certainly earn its discoverer a Nobel prize in phyisics!!)