What NSIDC Is Hiding

The animation below alternates between NSIDC September ice age for the year 2012 and the year 2013.

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Note the huge increase in the amount of white colored ice, which they used to call 5+ ice, but now call 4+ ice. Normally they publish a graph showing the extent of ice by age vs. year, but they didn’t include that graph this year.

I created that graph myself, and you can see why they didn’t include it. There is more than four times as much “white” ice as there was last September. This is the ice which they used to call 5+ year old ice. There has been an increase in ice of every age vs. last year, but the oldest and thickest ice has taken an unprecedented jump.

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But the most important thing to note is that the older ice is perfectly situated in the western Arctic, where it will survive the winter and thicken. The dirty little secret is that Arctic sea ice is making a spectacular “recovery.”

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11 Responses to What NSIDC Is Hiding

  1. @njsnowfan says:

    Big hole ice free area still showing up as open water on cyrosphere and not on the other Arctic sea ice charts.
    Hole … http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/NEWIMAGES/arctic.seaice.color.000.png
    No hole…http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticictnnowcast.gif
    No hole… http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif

  2. Crashex says:

    The designated “age” of the ice changes on the 1st of October. It’s the “birthday” for all ice in the arctic. All of the October plots range from 2 to +5 years old. They plotted the September month to be able to rhetorically suppress the age of the remaining ice.

  3. Blade says:

    Great work on this Steve.

    I think it’s time for Julienne to drop by and try to justify their shenanigans.

  4. YFNWG says:

    Canadian Ice Service is doing the same thing. Starting this month, ice they previously classified as “Old ice” in their Stage of Development charts is now “Multi-year” ice with no sign of ANY old ice.
    http://www.ec.gc.ca/glaces-ice/default.asp?lang=En&n=D32C361E-1

  5. YFNWG says:

    Canadian Ice Service is doing the same thing. Starting this month, ice they previously classified as “Old ice” in their Stage of Development charts is now “Multi-year” ice with no sign of ANY old ice.

  6. CJ says:

    Possibly the best non-Governmental graph EVER!!! Thanks, Steve!
    And to the few & proud commenters here, some of the best stuff I read is yours, here!
    C

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