www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv
The Arctic Basin never starts melting until day 150, and it stops melting by day 260. That is a maximum of 110 days of melt, and then the sun sets and the ocean starts freezing again. The only way you could get to an ice free Arctic would be to keep the sun up high in the sky until Christmas.
Alarmists need to step up their game and quit acting like complete morons.
From WUWT:
Steven Mosher says:
July 15, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Hmm.
ice doesnt look too well
http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/cryo_compare.jpg
I wonder if we will get significant ( visible by sensor from space ) open water inside the
85n line. extent is dropping by big rates…2007 record could get crushed.
the right weather… and we could hit ‘ice free’ ( 1 million sqkm in area) this year.
or not.
GISS is all golden.
They are being paid to act like complete morons. My, or your perception is irrelevant. Many will believe the non sense they spew. It is strictly a cost/benefit ratio.
Hi Steven,
Have you deliberately created your own graph of sea ice area/extent and deliberately obscured the values so that nobody can read it? That’s too funny!
Here is a nice clear graph, showing that 2012 Arctic sea ice area is way lower than any previous year:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/arctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
Now everybody can see. Isn’t that better?
You must be ready to bet on a record low now. How about $1000?
It looks like JAXA still have it on the 2007 line.
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/Sea_Ice_Extent_L.png
Until tomorrow morning.
Wow, there sure is a lot of reddish and pink below bluish for all months in this graph. And it’s no wonder it was schmerred for this post.
Still, I have to say that it doesn’t appear likely that 2012 will reach 0. In order to bet on a record low, I’d need to see well-defined terms of the wager. But I’m interested.
Jaxa below 4254531 http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv
Dear Steven,
Another failed prediction, I’m afraid.
Still, here’s another graph, by way of consolation:
https://14adebb0-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/arctischepinguin/home/piomas/piomas-trnd6.png?attachauth=ANoY7coQCKw5Urxtv1sDTQnpv39u80o-U0VqH7WG-k9nkXlob0Xfe-DrI_tN-NEKoPVOmZuojXlETKzwP0o4_63xImr6J7u51XlSNRVUt-KJfUdiGDtLKwbmpJkBXaU4CT4_ktawTlr7X_asuqKcXyPQpdv4QsDGjQOj310DdnbHPrqh5XHB-4lLvOV6hAHys4lVCxmc67JXpW70ahOsmdqlfJ4Re2ycfBBulbnnwgh_kMr8QNLln9E%3D&attredirects=0
Well that proves it! Record minimum this year and ice free by 2015. Let’s up the bet to $5,000. I’ll give you even odds.
Lmao! So, you’re believing the volume graph? Why? The scientists have been shown wrong every time they looked into volume estimates all over the world. From the Himalayas to the Antarctic. What makes you think they know anything about the arctic volume?
What is the point of this argument? The shit is going to melt sooner or later and there is nothing we can do about it. It seems like a worthless argument.
I predict some ice will melt during the summer and freeze during the winter.
This would have been great news in the 70’s. They wouldn’t have to go to the trouble of sprinkling soot all over the Arctic to try and melt the sucker. My, how things have changed. Too little melting…..scary. Too much melting……really scary.
Melting the Arctic Ice Cap was a science topic of dicussing in some areas in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Even proposals to melt the ice cap going back to the late 1800s.
Supposedly also to improve climate.
Including Nuking it. Don’t know what the Alarmists would make of that these days. 🙂
Scientists Considered pouring soot over the Arctic….
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/12/scientists-considered-pouring-soot-over.html
The blog also has a letter written by two scientists to the President about the COLD.
Well we’ve reached summer peak more or less. We have another 50 days then temps are going to drop rapidly again.
Temperatures normally start down during the next two or three days. http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
And the graph you linked to is completely consistent with what I wrote above. 😉
Temperatures are already going down …