Polar Meltdown Update : Global Sea Ice Is 5,000 Manhattans Above Normal

15 Responses to Polar Meltdown Update : Global Sea Ice Is 5,000 Manhattans Above Normal

1. suyts says:

   March 2, 2013 at 8:50 pm

   Lol, well, sure that’s one way of putting it! 😀 Brevity, there’s no replacing it’s effectiveness. I went through much more bother saying the same thing.

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2. Aldous says:

   March 2, 2013 at 9:00 pm

   Unfortunately, in a changing climate this is exactly the kind of thing we can expect.

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   • stevengoddard says:

     March 2, 2013 at 9:02 pm

     That is complete bullshit. The whole basis of CAGW theory is feedbacks, with one of the largest being albedo (ice) loss at the poles.

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     • Brian G Valentine says:

       March 2, 2013 at 9:25 pm

       heh – a very large number times zero is still zero.

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   • Will Nitschke says:

     March 2, 2013 at 9:08 pm

     Whatever happens is exactly what was expected…

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     • kbray in california says:

       March 2, 2013 at 9:33 pm

       The model says so.

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   • sunsettommy says:

     March 2, 2013 at 9:34 pm

     Aldous,

     the climate is ALWAYS in a state of change thus your statement is silly.

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     • Jimbo says:

       March 2, 2013 at 10:42 pm

       Aldous,
       Have you read about Arctic amplification? Secondly, your nonsense about changing climate is exactly that. The climate ALWAYS changes. Why didn’t you use global warming?

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3. Another Ian says:

   March 2, 2013 at 9:38 pm

   Steve,

   O/T and FYI.

   More temperature fiddling highlighted

   http://joannenova.com.au/2013/03/not-the-hottest-ever-summer-for-most-australians-in-sydney-melbourne-or-brisbane-not-extreme-heatwaves-either/

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   • Will Nitschke says:

     March 2, 2013 at 10:18 pm

     It was a relatively nice summer given the fact that the previous year’s was so cold and wet. Sometimes you get lucky.

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     • oldfossil says:

       March 3, 2013 at 2:54 pm

       I remember 1972, my first visit to Oz, and in Melbourne the temperature was 80C or above every day for the late autumn month of May. I don’t believe that this has been repeated since, even though 1972 was right in the middle of the “mini Ice age.”

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4. elcrustace says:

   March 3, 2013 at 5:58 am

   Hi Steve,

   NSIDC displays a 15.6 million km2 february mean for 1979-2000 range. I downloaded their data, excluded months where there were less than 14 days recorded and computed these datas : I got a 15.47 million km2 mean for this period.

   I got a bigger difference for january, they displayed 15.1 million km2 and I got 14.63.

   I think they artificially enlarge past ice sheet extent so the present one appears smaller.

   Can you confirm my results ?

   http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/

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   • elcrustace says:

     March 3, 2013 at 6:03 am

     I was writting about North Hemisphere datas, Arctic ice sheet !

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   • stevengoddard says:

     March 3, 2013 at 6:17 am

     I think they compensate for the Arctic satellite visibility hole around the pole

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     • elcrustace says:

       March 3, 2013 at 6:30 am

       They compensate always in the same direction, I’m not comfortable with “datas” obtained not only by mesurement but by using some esoterics models…

       (I’m French, my english is perfectible)

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