July 25, 2013
Barber said the ice is getting so weak that new categories have had to be created for it. “We have a whole new class of sea ice in the Arctic, which we’re calling ‘decayed ice,”‘ he said.
Summer cyclone chewing up Canada’s Arctic sea ice | CTV News
Barber’s decayed ice can be compared vs. 2006 below. Green shows the large increase in western Arctic sea ice since 2006. Red shows ice present in 2006, but not present today.
Most of the red ice was lost during the winter of 2006-2007 as it was transported out the Fram Strait. By contrast, the new green western Arctic ice will get very thick over the winter and be much harder to melt next summer – making climate alarmists even more angry and irrational, and causing them to say even stupider things to gullible members of the press corpse.
So what words will they use next year, when they announce, “It’s worse than we thought!?” Will rotten, decayed ice become putrid, gangrenous ice?
Interesting, in 2005 there was alot of western sea ice just like this year. Apparently that didn’t stop a big melt two years later. And 2005 had much thicker and older ice than we do now. Its not surprising you have to grasp at these straws given what happened last year.
Apparently, you don’t read much about the past over the amount of ice in Arctic from Navy.
2005 had about the same if not more ice in the western Canadian region.
http://iceweb1.cis.ec.gc.ca/IceGraph20/csod?charttype=sdtt&ssnsta=1968&ssnend=2013&histdtsta=0924&histdtend=0924®ion=warctic&nrmlsta=1981&nrmlend=2010&showwarn=true&plotnormal=false&plotmedian=true&plottrend=false&plotwarn=true&plotscaled=false&cachelife=1&errorpage=errorPage.jsp&format=csod&sizex=760&sizey=600&lang=en
There is a lot more ice this year in the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas.
But as you keep claiming, that eastern ice apparently doesn’t matter. Make up your mind! In 2005 there was more ice in the Beaufort and CAA.
ROFL – the part of the East Siberian Sea which has excess ice is in the western Arctic. Look at a map.
The east Siberian sea is in the western arctic? *Facepalm
ROFLMAO
If you are in Siberia looking north – then east is towards Alaska.
Hopefully you aren’t as dense as you pretend to be.
Look at a map Steven and find the 0deg/180 deg longitude line. That splits the earth into an eastern and western hemisphere. Look at the E Siberian sea and tell me which hemisphere its in….
Lol.
Are you begging me to do a special post to humiliate you?
Tina Fey says she can see Siberia from her house in Alaska.
Answer the question Steven. Is the East Liberian sea in the eastern or western hemisphere?
I really can’t believe you are going down this route.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian
I see, so you think Iceland is in the western Arctic.
Iceland isn’t even in the arctic! Its south of the arctic circle. lol. Keep digging!
You’re an odd one. Are you not aware that Iceland is considered to be partly in the Arctic?
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The Arctic is the red line, the Arctic circle is the blue line.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Arctic_circle.svg