DMI got about a week behind, but is now compensating by showing what ice extent will be two weeks in the future. They have determined (using the latest data from ouijasat) that at mid-month, extent will be the lowest on record.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
h/t to Scott
Rio+20 feature. Needed to give one world government movement a little boost.
Faking so obvious is stupidity. Take the crayons away from the kids.
What happened to science? Has it been infiltrated by the teachers unions?
Even http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php is wrong.
I checked it 2 days ago and it was below 270k. What went wrong.
Since August 2011, Lars Prahm is director of DMI.
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/files/gmes/climate-change-conf-helsinki-june-2011/cv_l.prahm_en.pdf
While at EUMETSAT he was supervising sea level rise amongst other things.
http://2011.cma.gov.cn/en/news/200904/t20090404_30869.html
Maybe he wanted some new, innovative, more alarming products from his underlings. Just speculating. Organisational changes sometimes have consequences. For being Danish, DMI was surprisingly non-alarmist the past few years. Maybe someone wanted to rectify this.
Disasters must be carefully planned.