We have reached the halfway point through the Arctic melt season, and Arctic sea ice extent is normal.
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Temperatures near the pole have been normal or below normal every day for the past six weeks. There are less than 90 days left to the melt season.
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The Arctic is cold.
Temperatures are forecast to remain cold for at least another week.
Climate experts say the Arctic will be ice-free this summer.
‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’ | Environment | The Guardian
They also predicted the Arctic would be ice free last summer.
Nobel laureate Al Gore predicted the Arctic would be ice free in 2014.
Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014
American experts predicted the Arctic would be ice free in 2013.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’’
NASA predicted the Arctic would be ice-free in 2012.
Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?
Norwegian experts predicted the Arctic would be ice-free in 2008.
Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer_English_Xinhua
There is no trend in Arctic sea ice extent over the past decade, yet climate experts keep forecasting an ice-free Arctic.
Rather than asking when the Arctic will be ice-free, perhaps we should be asking when climate science will be free of idiots and charlatans?
