NSIDC shows that Northern Hemisphere ice extent is about 1,000,000 km^2 below the 1979-2000 mean. Is this an Arctic death spiral?
Ice extent was at a century peak around 1980, which skews the median upwards. You can also see from the modified NSIDC map below that most of the missing ice (red) is near Quebec and Japan – not exactly the Arctic.
Has that data been published in a peer reviewed pulication? If so you are an idiot or worse, per our Bugs Bunny cartoon friend.
Kind of miss him. Maybe you can lure him out of his hole again for another bitch slapping. He at least kept things lively and his arrogance was priceless.
I wonder if the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the Romans sat around and worried if the Ice had changed 2.3432% compared to the year before?
II.III IV III II% actually Scarlet.
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I THINK! But I do not believe the Romans were concerned about decimals and that would leave II. Without Thermometers they would have gone with feels like and 2C feels about the same depending on humidity! 😉
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I looked it up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
They probably would have just sacrificed(sp) a Druid and read his intestines.
They were too busy laying on sofas eating grapes and being feathered, it must have been when they started to worry about global warming and then it cooled that their reign ended
S P:
They lived in what was known as the RWP / Roman Warm Period which was NOT as warm as the Holocene Climate / Thermal Optimum. The Minoan Warm Period was even warmer about 1000 to 1500 years before! That is based on Biological activity in many regions around the globe and not on some guess about actual temperature anomalies! Biological activity has a lower temperature limit for growth and we have not reached the lower limit for some species where they grew before!
If we are talking holocene optimum, we are looking at the stone age, so 2.3432% would be UGUG. UGUGUG UGUGUGUG UGUGUG UGUG%.
Except they did not have % in those days.
LMAO!
The NSIDC is guilty of misdirection, false claims and possibly fraud by making claims about Arctic Ice when the are talking about Northern Hemisphere sea ice.
I say the NSIDC should be relocated to Point Barrow so they can better monitor the ice conditions year round. North West Greenland might also be a candidate location for them. Some people understand that ocean atmosphere circulation patterns shift and in the mid 70s there was a shift as well as a recent shift in the last few years which might change the sea ice conditions. It is possible what is being seen now is close to the conditions 60 to 70 years ago and multiples of that back in history.
When they can produce satellite images that old they will have something to talk about.
AndyW:
Extent does not mean much because it contains up to 85% error. It measures ice concentration in “Pixels” claiming > 15% = 100%. It may be something but it aint science!
If they are using Ice Breaker to escort Tourists through the ice their claims regarding ice conditions are fraudulent also! Prior to satellite and modern ship construction some of what is done today was not possible in past times.
I’m expecting a slow melt this summer because of the concentration in the ice, and La Nina.
Yes, climate experts should be permanently stationed in the Arctic so they can better monitor imagined changes in sea ice and take real temperature readings instead of relying on self-serving interpretation of “missing” satellite data.
Yeah Al Gore tipper should move there so he can check the tipping point. Cold is good though. He could start an organic farm in the ice and write more poetry so that he can be like his hero who wrote Silent Spring