This year could be well on its way toward earning a dubious spot in the record books.
Arctic sea ice has melted away with astonishing speed in the first half of July, at an average rate of about 46,000 square miles (120,000 square kilometers) per day, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo.
That’s equivalent to an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania melting into the sea every 24 hours.
“That’s relatively fast,” said Julienne Stroeve, a research scientist at the NSIDC.
Not unless an asteroid hits. The map below compares 2007 vs 2011. Most of the red (2007 ice not present in 2011) will be gone in a couple weeks, and the green (2011 ice not present in 2007) area will likely grow much larger. Barring a major change in the weather, 2011 won’t be anywhere close to 2007 come September.
what’s red and what’s green? (question)
I added an explanation
A water melon or possibly a road kill frog
check out the last piece, Polar bear walks on water 07:17
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012t621#synopsis
given all the variables, minimum extent reveals little about the climate.
Arctic-roos is headed the wrong way for alarmers:
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png
I saw that too. It’s gone UP! And apparently they use the same satellite data as NSIDC. As discussed in http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/08/arctic-sea-ice-reports-who-to-believe/
Please try to concentrate on concentration 🙂 Also, take a look at all that pretty purple that is being flushed out to the North Atlantic
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/NEWIMAGES/arctic.seaice.color.000.png
So, is all that “pretty purple” being flushed out by CO2-induced global warming?
Yourt question is irrelevant to the statement addressed to in my answer to Steve. He is very (as usual) overconfident that this years minima will be much larger than 2007.
So I showed him the usual ice concentration image which shows a dramatic reduction in the most concentrated ice-color coded as purple. I also brought up the fact that a lot of such densely concentrated ice is being flushed out.
Conclusion, Steve is blowing a lot of hot air. Only if there were a major weather change would we have a much larger ice extent than 2007.
In my opinion, mid September will see anywhere from 4.0 to 4.6 km2.
IWB translation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ivAwBpDI2I&feature=related
“Barring a major change in the weather, 2011 won’t be anywhere close to 2007 come September.”
Are you transmitting this from Andromeda? 🙂
http://bit.ly/1997terror
ROFLMAO!!!! Point Scored!