The NSIDC September Sea Ice News is out, and they failed to mention the record high sea ice area in Antarctica.
Antarctica is actually a fairly large continent and it has a lot of ice, so it is somewhat surprising that our nation’s leading ice experts pretend to be unaware of its existence.
This is proof that they’re interested only in raising alarm. It’s not science; it’s tabloidism
Very well said. We should ask Julienne about it when she gets back from her Greenpeace cruise.
Meanwhile, now that the summer Solstice to Equinox period has ended, NSIDC and NOAA can go hibernate once again. Plotting their alarmist return nine months from now.
I wish they would mention the Antarctic more too. I mentioned this to them in the past and they said that as they were US based for the web site and media that is where they concentrated the info, ie people are more interested in the Arctic because it is on peoples doorstep.
Note that when the Antarctic is low they don’t mention that either.
Also note there is not record Antarctic sea ice area according to Cryosphere, so I am not sure where you are looking at for that.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/antarctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
Though I think it may well become larger area soon.
Andy
Five minutes behind the rest of the world
@Andy
your link only goes to 2010.
Love the title! Maybe they will find their missing heat there.
If you search for “Antarctica” on the http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ site Steve mentions, you get no recent references (the latest is May 3 2012) and only one headline mentioning the word Antarctica (March 3 2010). Strange ??
Mentioning it wouldn’t be Greenpeace friendly.