NOAA Showing 12 % More Ice Than The 2007 Minimum

Turquoise represents ice present in 2012 which wasn’t present at the 2007 minimum. Red shows the opposite. There is 12% more ice than there was at the 2007 minimum.

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The next map shows the changes since Monday.

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16 Responses to NOAA Showing 12 % More Ice Than The 2007 Minimum

  1. Andy OZ says:

    The quick freeze looks to me like the straits between Alaska and Siberia will close early. I’m guessing here but the next disaster news story will be thousands of whales becoming trapped in the Arctic Ocean unable to escape the winter ice. Fleets of Greenpeace Chinook helicopters will be needed to fly them out to the Bering Sea. The horror! The horror!

  2. Terra Incognita says:

    Give up Steve. Ten years from now you’ll be forgetting all this ju ju magic that you used to whip up daily. Your rationalizations will be different then. Your arguments shift like a kaleidescope – changing, shifting yet always coming out the same.

    Already its the “1938 had an open Arctic” absurdity but when the weather starts slamming us in earnest and the supermarkets start showing the effects of a truly open Arctic then you’ll simply exchange this current nonsense for some future confabulation.

  3. Andy says:

    So MASIE and NIC are catching up with the other sites as predicted. Thanks for posting these Steve, is interesting to see.

  4. pjie2 says:

    For the record, I’ve redone all your counts since you don’t seem capable of getting them right. What software are you using?

    Aug 24th (day 237): 24,583 ice pixels
    Aug 26th (day 239): 23,086 ice pixels
    Aug 27th (day 240): 21,939 ice pixels
    Aug 28th (day 241): 20,763 ice pixels
    Aug 29th (day 242): 20,172 ice pixels

    Sept 19th 2007 (day 262): 18,161 ice pixels

    In percentage terms these are:

    24th: 35.4% higher (you claimed 36%)
    26th: 27.1% higher (you claimed 28%)
    27th: 20.8% higher (you claimed 22%)
    28th: 14.3% higher(you claimed 18%, then 15.8% with a copy/paste error, then finally 14%)
    29th: 11.1% higher (you’re claiming 12% in this post)

    Something is wrong either with your counting or your rounding. So far, every single number you’ve posted has been wrong, even according to your own claimed methodology – which as discussed previously is an inaccurate method applied to an inappropriate dataset.

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