August 5, 2013
This year “will without a doubt” rank in the top five lowest levels of ice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in terms of recorded ice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Center.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2013/08/05/stories/1059985599
And the results are in – third highest since 2005
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Walter knows there is no problem too large for a little data manipulation to solve.
Yesterday set all time record, largest difference between National Airport and my car thermometer, 7 degrees. On a sunny day, no fronts anywhere in the vicinity. It is worse than we thought!!
You clearly need to install a jet exhaust next to your thermometer to bring it up to spec. Why must we at the Bureau for Public Accountability have to keep reminding you? You are at fault, after all. Only you can prevent whatever catastrophe we blame on you.
Same Walt Meier who said in a NewsHour interview last year ( http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec12/icemelt_09-20.html ), “… it puts an exclamation point on a long-term trend that we have been seeing over those years since 1979 of less and less sea ice at the end of each summer. And this year was much less than anything we had seen before.”
The guy at least can be credited for giving himself an ‘out’ at the end of the interview one year ago today:
RAY SUAREZ: Should we assume it’s going to be even worse next summer, next September?
WALT MEIER: We can’t do that, because there’s a lot of variation from year to year in the Arctic sea ice and in climate in general.
And, typically, we do see kind of ups and downs along this kind of overall declining trend and actually accelerating trend in recent years.
But, oftentimes, after we hit a record low, we will see things bounce back. And it may be even kind of stable for several years. We don’t foresee going back to the levels we were back in the 1980s, but we may see things level out for a while before dropping again.
RAY SUAREZ: Walt Meier of the National Ice and Snow Data Center, thanks for joining us.
WALT MEIER: All right. Thank you.