My forecast : The usual mindless hysterics will soon start trumpeting the low Arctic sea ice maximum this year.
What is actually going on is that Arctic ice has returned to the state it was in in 2005/2006, which had the two highest minimums of the last 12 years.
There will be a sharp turn up in the next few days, with northerly winds in the Bering Sea.
Agreed, NASA will definitely report something like “seventh lowest on record”. Just like they did last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se89sI0oiIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjwpOWeRZus
It has already happened over at that weather bomber site that Jeff what-his-face operates.
Maximum and minimum have no correlation I can see. I looked at this previously, and you can’t make good predictions about the low summer extent.
Minimum seems to be dependent on storms/wind that breakup the ice and shove it out Fram Strait. If the winds just keep the ice circling in the Arctic sea the minimum stays high.
NASA on Arctic sea ice record low – storm ‘wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover’
Now Rewritten:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SeaIce/page3.php
The spin put on all science these days is just sickening. It is like blaming everything that goes wrong on witches. Just substitute Human CO2 for Witch and it is a rerun of the Dark Ages.
From your second link, I noticed that they start their graphs and charts in 1980 and stopped them in 2008. I’m not getting all bothered over 28 years worth of cherry-picked data.
I think your post on thickness yesterday will tell part of the tale when the melting does start … but for the true believers everything is evidence of GLO-BULL warming … even record cold and snow. Hopefully lots of sailors, jet skiers and rowers are arctic bound to take advantage of the coming tropical melting season 😉
Just as long as they are required to fork over $$$$ to the rescue types BEFORE they go and pull their fool stunts.
Speaking of melting, Bulgaria and Greece are in a bad way with either 2 meters of snow or flooding.
http://iceagenow.info/ has several of the stories.
No electric, running low on food, several people have died. I doubt we will see word one in the US MSM.
Speaking of melting, Greece and Bulgaria are in a world of hurt with flooding and 2 meters of snow fall. http://iceagenow.info/ has several stories.
Food is running low, no electric and people have been trapped or died. I expect no word in the US MSM though.
Sorry for the double post. Word UnImpressed seemed to have booted the first comment into a snow bank as it did several times last night.
The cold is moving South as it can’t stand the heat from global warming.
It will make national news tomorrow.