Antarctic sea ice cover is close to average since 1981, and is more than 1.5 million km² higher than winter 1966. The press describes this as “record winter low” and “permanent shift.”
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“in August 1966 the maximum sea ice extent fell to 15.9×10 km ± 0.3×10 km .”
Extent has been higher than last year almost every day this year, by an average of 548,658 km².
ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/sh/osisaf_sh_sie_daily.txt
He’s probably not lying. As Southern Hemisphere winter heads into spring, the sea ice heads toward its all-time low. Literally, the slope goes from positive to negative, so it is headed that direction. Whether is will ever reach the all-time low, or even get close, is yet to be seen.
Oops! The other post about headed toward all-time low.
Breaking news… dock workers go on strike in over 30 u.s. ports because their docks have become flooded from all the melting melting melting, snow and ice is melting melting melting. oh never mind I guess it’s for another reason. in other news, it didn’t take long for NBC news to declare that hurricane Helene was more powerful than it otherwise would have been due to global warming. the story cites the massive amount of rain that fell. but have a look at the North Carolina rainfall map and just a tiny area received more than 8 in of rain on already saturated ground, identical to what happened in 1972 during the Great Rapid City South Dakota flood, aka the Black hills flood, wear a tiny area had 15 in of rain. was that caused by global warming too? I think the 1970s were notoriously cool. some even said we were 1/6 of the way to the next ice age. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/science-florida-hurricane-ravaged-north-carolina-rcna173256