After 30 years of unprecedented polar melt due to polar amplification – global sea ice area today is exactly normal with a 0.00 anomaly.
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008
As climate experts would say, that is 276,000 Manhattans of rotten ice. They also point out that Arctic ice loss is much larger than Antarctic ice gain, which is why the sum of the anomalies is equal to zero.
Reblogged this on Gds44's Blog.
Now waiting for alarmists to chime in with: “but, but, but.. the summer ice! the summer ice!!!!”
I’m guessing that it is summer at one of the poles.