Frightening Death Spiral

6 Responses to Frightening Death Spiral

1. Latitude says:

   April 19, 2011 at 3:41 pm

   Almost all of the ice loss is in the Barents Sea..
   Ice in the Barents Sea is wide open and very vulnerable to wind.

   They have been running ice breakers up there all winter because of the oil and gas field that was just discovered.

   Russia has just built two new ice breakers just for the Barents Sea, and so have the Norwegians.

   This is the new normal for the Barents Sea. Expect it to throw off the bell curve from now on.

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2. bubbagyro says:

   April 19, 2011 at 4:07 pm

   This new data comports with the PIPS 3.0 that shows ice up to 6 + meters thick north of Greenland. Thick ice melts slower, obviously. It would be worse, I imagine, if the ice breakers didn’t keep the sea routes churned up and susceptible to winds.

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3. Andy Weiss says:

   April 19, 2011 at 5:16 pm

   The credibility of climate scientists has been a death spiral for quite some time.

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4. suyts says:

   April 19, 2011 at 6:11 pm

   Frightening stuff! We’re doomed!

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5. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

   April 20, 2011 at 12:09 am

   with extent dropping by a minuscule amount every day

   No El Nino warmth in Northern Hemisphere land and water surrounding Arctic ice.

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6. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

   April 20, 2011 at 12:15 am

   I’m going to give it a shot and say 2011 (red) will end up higher than 2009 (blue) when minimum is said and done this year.

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