Extent Of Multi-Year Ice Has Tripled Over The Past Decade

The fake news press continues to bombard the public with claims that Arctic multi-year sea ice is disappearing. As recently as one hour ago.

As with almost everything else reported by the press about climate, the claims are completely fraudulent. The coverage of multi-year sea ice has tripled since 2008.

This animation shows the huge increase in the areal coverage of multi-year ice.

In 2009, experts announced that Arctic sea ice was “effectively gone.” Since then, the coverage of multi-year sea ice has more than tripled, and experts say it is “disappearing.”

Multiyear Arctic ice is effectively gone: expert | Reuters

You can reproduce my work on a Linux, Mac or Cygwin system using this script. On the other hand, you can’t reproduce the work of government climate scientists, because they are doing propaganda, not science.

#!/bin/tcsh

set MONTH=`date -v -1d +%m`
set DAY=`date -v -1d +%d`
set DATE=${MONTH}${DAY}
rm -f MYI_${DATE}.csv

foreach year (2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017)
    set LABEL=${MONTH}/${DAY}/${year}
    rm -f ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.jpg
    rm -f ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.gif
    echo ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.jpg
    echo http://osisaf.met.no/quicklooks/prod/ice/${year}/${MONTH}/ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.jpg
    curl -O http://osisaf.met.no/quicklooks/prod/ice/${year}/${MONTH}/ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.jpg
    convert ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.jpg -gravity center -pointsize 72 -background blue label:$LABEL -append                 ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.gif
    rm ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.jpg
    convert ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.gif ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.txt
    echo $year","`grep '#F' ice_type_nh_${year}${DATE}1200.txt | wc | awk -F" " '{print $1}'` >> MYI_${DATE}.csv
end