Mark “Death Spiral” Serreze at NSIDC always puts a graph of multi-year ice in his April sea ice news. The point of this graph is to show how old/thick ice is disappearing from the Arctic. This year he forgot, so I decided to chip in and lend a hand.
The percentage of sea ice five or more years old has more than doubled since 2012.
The animation below shows the huge increase in multi-year ice in the western Arctic over the last two years
Has Mark “Death Spiral” Serreze at NSIDC expressed his appreciation for your assistance?
But it is still warm and dry in Los Angeles! The world is going to end! Think of all the unhappy reality TV stars in peril there! 🙂
Lotta good that ice does to California. The arctic is local, not global. California is global.
California is getting slammed with cold, rain and snow. They will be blaming mudslides on climate change soon.
It’s just old rotten ice. 😉
You left off bitter and white …
And clinging…
Nailed it.
Yes, it is snowing in Northern California and Oregon as well as Utah, etc.
Not to mention here on the East Coast, more snow/ice this week!
If the trend continues then in only 20 years 25% of the Arctic Sea ICe will be over 5 years old.
Can I have a research grant to link this to CAGW?
Who needs Arctic ice? Not polar bears or me. Bring on the warming! A few millennia of the Holocene Optimum revisited.