If the ice edge doesn’t change in the next six days, this is how the comparison vs. 2007 will look. Green is ice present in 2011 which was not present in 2007. Red is the opposite.
It would require a dramatic change in weather for 2011 to end up close to 2007.
Steve, you may get a kick out of his discussion from last year….
http://test.cp.techprogress.org/2010/06/27/arctic-sea-ice-extent-volume-record-nsidc-volume/
beginning at comment 12
Blue is my favorite color.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/NEWIMAGES/arctic.seaice.color.000.png
Steve’s earth is in an alternative universe.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.area.arctic.png
Fascinating. Area increasing steadily since 2007. Thanks for sharing it.
You forgot 2011 Steve. It’ll get worse in the years to come due to the MYI greatly diminishing. Your fantasies notwithstanding.
OK. Are you willing to bet money on MYI decreasing this year?
Gee, how surprising that ice melts when warm water flows underneath. Gosh, I always thought ice was a permanent feature and was impervious to melting. It must mean the end of the world. Panic.
Steve we are going to be proven correct this decade ,as the prolong solar minimum sets the stage,and all the items that control the climate phase into an ever increasing colder mode ,a process that started in 2008 or 2009.
The AO between the low solar activity, a likely easterly QBO, and a weak La Nina,not to mention high latitude volcanic activity has a chance to be quite negative this winter. We all know what that will mean. A cold N.H. with extremes in weather.
The geological activity itself has been on the increase ,and I say in response to the low solar activity with occasional spurts of activity.
The PDO is in it’s cold phase which wilL mean more La Ninas ,as oppossed to El Ninos.
AMO ,wilL be in it’s cold phase in the not to distant future. Not to forget earth’s weakening magnetic field which will help more cosmic rays to enter earth’s atmosphere ,as wilL the weaken solar magnetic field. Cosmic rays perhaps playing a role in increasing clouds.
Not to forget any spurt of activity the sun does have a greater impact on earth, if earth’s magnetic field is weaker. I think it is the charge particle change during a prolong solar minimum,that alters earth’s magnetic field/jolts the earth more, then it would otherwise, which makes us more likely for geological activity, during this type of solar action.
Of course more volcanic activity more SO2 ,result a warmer stratosphere ,cooler surface temperatures overall ,although location of the eruption plays a big part, as far as a possible aid to a more -AO. Warmer polar stratosphere.
In closing I am more confident then ever that this will be the decade of increased geological activity,climatic extremes,and a temperature decline,and last but not least the decade the man made global warming hoax met it’s end.