This was humiliating, so JAXA cleverly adjusted their methodology downwards right at the finish line. Unadjusted JAXA is 5.1 million km². The new version of JAXA (adopted three days ago) is 4.8 million km².
Nuttercelli says they predicted 2013’s big increase in ice.
This is really bad news for Nuttercelli and the boys over at the SS.
If you accept the last-minute bodge from JAXA, then the most accurate sea-ice forecast was provided by the climate and sea ice experts at…
WUWT!!!!
Congratulations to Anthony and the gang.
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Nuttercelli says they predicted 2013?s big increase in ice.
Yeah,riiiight.
What? The SEARCH exercise uses the NSIDC’s data, not JAXA. The fact that the latter have updated their product is entirely irrelevant.
Nigel Farage draws attention to the 60% increase in arctic ice, in the European Parliament:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylLhPHI1TI