Note the increase in thickness near the pole over the last seven days. Temperatures have been below -5ºC there for several weeks now.
Ice concentration is close to 100% across the entire pack.
We also know that the age of the ice is older than it has been for several years.
The ice is older, thicker, more concentrated – and growing faster. That is what an objective person would call a “recovery.”
You can say growing and expanding—but you can’t say volume is increasing. 😉
Amino – why not? Surely it’s just a straightforward pixel size (area) x colour code (thickness) integration, to confirm?
Joe Bastardi is expressing frustration with NSIDC. I particularly like Joe’s equation of pythonic Black Knight = NSIDC Arctic Ice forecasting. Read it now before it scrolls off, since Joe doesn’t use a permalink format:
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather
Excerpt:
“THURSDAY EARLY MORNING
ARE THE U.S. SCIENTISTS DELUSIONAL IN THEIR SEA ICE IDEAS?
Someone in authority in the U.S. lying or wrong; it’s that simple.
We have the spokesman from the NSIDC claiming again, like three years ago before he woke up and realized the La Nina was causing a recovery, that Arctic sea ice is in a death spiral. He tries to use the metric “thickness of ice.”
Yet here we have the NAVY saying the ice is thicker.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/is-the-ice-getting-thicker/
Somebody is wrong.
And yet now it is at the lowest point for this time of year, in recorded history.
And, on a yearly average, less ice covers the Arctic now than at any time in recent geologic history.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100602193423.htm
Do you think there will be ice in the Hudson Bay in September?