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It has been five years since Canada’s leading ice expert announced that multi-year ice is a thing of the past.

The multiyear ice covering the Arctic Ocean has effectively vanished, a startling development that will make it easier to open up polar shipping routes, an Arctic expert said on Thursday.

Vast sheets of impenetrable multiyear ice, which can reach up to 80 meters (260 feet) thick, have for centuries blocked the path of ships seeking a quick short cut through the fabled Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They also ruled out the idea of sailing across the top of the world.

But David Barber, Canada’s Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, said the ice was melting at an extraordinarily fast rate.

Multiyear Arctic ice is effectively gone: expert | Reuters

Five years since the last of it disappeared, half of the Arctic Basin is full of multi-year ice.

For the second day in a row, there was essentially no change in Arctic sea ice extent over the past 24 hours. Green shows gain, red shows loss.

Christians are being exterminated from Islamic countries in the Middle East, and the press has no interest in it. Hamas uses children for human shields, and the press blames it on Israel. These people have been trained to self-destruct.

“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe,” Gadhafi said. “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

President Obama can stop fires, if you agree to give up your energy security and freedom!

No mention that this is the quietest fire season in decades.

National Interagency Fire Center

Half of the country voted for this genius.

I didn’t get through my whole ICCC presentation because I ran out of time, but here is the complete presentation. I plan to do a video slide show too at some point.

TonyHellerICCC2014

Mark Serreze calls me “breathtakingly ignorant.”

The red circle shows the year when NSIDC starts their Arctic sea ice graphs. The mother of all cherry picks.

The last two years have been a real Arctic nightmare for greens who hate the human race, but it gets much worse. There has been a massive increase in the amount of oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic over the past three years, and next year is set to double the amount of five+ year old ice.

This is what the map is going to look like (more or less) in October, after the ice has its next birthday. A huge amount of 5+ year old ice. Next year is shaping up to be a complete catastrophe for Arctic alarmists.

If you want accurate information about the Arctic, go to the Danish Meteorological Agency. They show that the vast majority of Greenland has gained ice over the past year

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

The map below shows changes in Arctic sea ice extent yesterday. Red is decrease, green is increase. There was essentially no change yesterday.

The next map shows changes over the past week.

This one shows the huge increase in ice since the same date in 2007.

NSIDC shows Greenland melting out of control, far above average this summer.

Greenland Ice Sheet Today | Surface Melt Data presented by NSIDC

This makes no sense, because NCEP maps have showed Greenland temperatures well below normal this summer.

Now lets look at the DMI graph of the same thing. DMI shows Greenland melting well below normal this summer.

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

How did Mark Serreze’s NSIDC team pull off their Greenland nature trick?  They included the cold 1980’s in their average, which was the coldest decade on record in that region.

There was essentially no melting that decade, which dragged the mean line way down. More evidence of why DMI is a better reference than NSIDC. DMI doesn’t have a global warming agenda. The NSIDC graph is extremely misleading, no doubt by design.

h/t to Chris Beal