More Ice In The Eastern Arctic Than 1922

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1. Gail Combs says:

   March 23, 2015 at 2:29 pm

   From WIKI

   ….The climate of Svalbard is dominated by its high latitude, with the average summer temperature at 4 °C (39 °F) to 6 °C (43 °F) and January averages at ?12 °C (10 °F) to ?16 °C (3 °F).[63] The North Atlantic Current moderates Spitsbergens’s temperatures, particularly during winter, giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperature than similar latitudes in Russia and Canada. This keeps the surrounding waters open and navigable most of the year. The interior fjord areas and valleys, sheltered by the mountains, have less temperature differences than the coast, giving about 2 °C (4 °F) lower summer temperatures and 3 °C (5 °F) higher winter temperatures. On the south of Spitsbergen, the temperature is slightly higher than further north and west. During winter, the temperature difference between south and north is typically 5 °C (9 °F), while about 3 °C (5 °F) in summer….

   15°C ( 59°F) is a heck of a lot warmer sea surface temperature!

   Maybe the result of active underwater volcanoes in the area? A major shift in the Gulf Stream?

   http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/54000/54734/gulf_stream_modis_lrg.gif

   ….The Gulf Stream is one of the strong ocean currents that carries warm water from the sunny tropics to higher latitudes. The current stretches from the Gulf of Mexico up the East Coast of the United States, departs from North America south of the Chesapeake Bay, and heads across the Atlantic to the British Isles. The water within the Gulf Stream moves at the stately pace of 4 miles per hour. Even though the current cools as the water travels thousands of miles, it remains strong enough to moderate the Northern European climate.

   The image above was derived from the infrared measurements of the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on a nearly cloud-free day over the east coast of the United States. The coldest waters are shown as purple, with blue, green, yellow, and red representing progressively warmer water. Temperatures range from about 7 to 22 degrees Celsius.

   The core of the Gulf Stream is very apparent as the warmest water, dark red. It departs from the coast at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The cool, shelf water from the north entrains the warmer outflows from the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. The north wall of the Gulf Stream reveals very complex structure associated with frontal instabilities that lead to exchanges between the Gulf Stream and inshore waters. Several clockwise-rotating warm core eddies are evident north of the core of the Gulf Stream, which enhance the exchange of heat and water between the coastal and deep ocean. Cold core eddies, which rotate counter clockwise, are seen south of the Gulf Stream. The one closest to Cape Hatteras is entraining very warm Gulf Stream waters on its northwest circumference. Near the coast, shallower waters have warmed due to solar heating, while the deeper waters offshore are markedly cooler (dark blue). MODIS made this observation on May 8, 2000, at 11:45 a.m. EDT.
   http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=54734

   North Atlantic sea surface temperature, from Oceanweather – (wwwDOT)getaforecast.com/weather-charts-seatemp.php
   Date of chart: 23 March 2015

   http://www.oceanweather.com/data/NATL-Northern/SST.GIF

   And if you can stand the hype…

   ….Within the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Stream is very narrow, only 50 miles wide, and travels very fast at 3 mph, carrying water at about 25°C. The North Atlantic Drift widens considerably to several hundred miles, slows to less than 1 mph and splits into several sub-currents. Off the British Isles it splits into two branches, one going south (the Canary Current) and the other going north along the coast of W and N Europe, where it exerts considerable influence upon the climate as far as northwestern Europe. For example, the Drift is particularly important because it keeps many Norwegian ports free of ice throughout the year.

   The two main driving forces behind it are the prevailing southwesterly trade winds and the circulation of the water far below the oceans surface, the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) circulation. Water in the north Atlantic sinks because it is dense. Density of water is increased by both salinity and temperature – the colder and saltier the water is the denser it is. This deep water flows to the Gulf of Mexico until it warms enough to resurface and flow back north as the Gulf Stream.

   Some 11,000 years ago the NADW shut down in response to subtle shifts in global climate. This slowed and diverted the course of the Gulf Stream to such an extent that the regional climate of the Northeast Atlantic became considerably cooler. As a result Northwestern Europe dropped back to ice age conditions within tens of years. It is now suspected that global warming may trigger a shutdown in the NADW, and a slowing or diversion of the Gulf Stream, which would ironically lead to colder climates throughout the UK and Northwest Europe.
   (wwwDOT)weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/North-Atlantic-Drift-Gulf-Stream.htm

   OH MY, is there nothing that the EVIL GAS CO2 can not do?

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   • Don says:

     March 23, 2015 at 6:06 pm

     I propose that Obama sign an EO compelling every American to breathe two fewer times per minute to save the planet. And you will be monitored by EPA.

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2. DD More says:

   March 23, 2015 at 7:17 pm

   Don, he has the pen, now just get him the phone number for the Gulf Stream and it will be taken care of.

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3. philippe jönes says:

   March 25, 2015 at 3:07 am

   …. those are just anecdotal measurements from a non-scientist.. deemed irrelevant since they don’t bolster Climate Change….

   Kenyan Farmers were a big deal in the news last week… these malnourished folks memories WERE taken seriously regarding CO2 controlled drought… despite actual rainfall measurements showing otherwise… these Kenyan Farmers anecdotal accounts need to be taken seriously… these folks need to be reimbursed… their crops are being ravaged not by cyclical drought… but by .0004 mole fraction CO2…

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