Government climate experts promised us an ice-free Arctic this summer. They have one hundred days to melt 240,000 Manhattans of ice, before the North Pole drops back below freezing.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Temperatures are running well below normal and well below freezing in the Arctic, but the ice is no match for CO2 powered missing heat.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
I’ll just give them a call and ask if I should be holding my breath by now..
For Gaia’s sake man, exhale! The alarmists need our help.
Trenberth’s missing heat must be locked up in all that ice.
….drops back below freezing…? no steve, we have been told that soon the winters will be ice free too!!
Steven – Could you please provide a quick explanation on how the ice extent is decreasing despite the fact that temperatures remain well below freezing?
Much of the current sea ice is located outside of the Arctic – like near northern Japan.
Another record-setting year for snowfall Parts of Eagle River get nine inches
For the second year in a row, the Anchorage area set a new snowfall record.
This year it wasn’t the amount of fluffy stuff that went down in the history books — last year Anchorage had more than 11 feet — but the days between the first and last snowfall.
It has been 232 days between the first sign of snow Sept. 29, 2012, and the most recent storm on Saturday, May 18, according to Chris Burling, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage.
“We’ve now set the record … for the longest snow season,” he said Saturday.
The previous record of 230 days was set in 1981-82, Burling said.
The storm that started Friday and carried into Saturday dumped four to six inches throughout most of Eagle River, Burling said, and the Weather Service had one report of nine inches on Hiland Road.
The late-season snowfall set daily records for May 17 and May 18, Burling said.
http://www.alaskastar.com/Alaska-Star/May-Issue-4-2013/Another-record-setting-year-for-snowfall/