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WARMING OF ALASKAN ARTIC SEEN AS EVIDENCE OF GREENHOUSE EFFECT – NYTimes.com

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Updated: Dec 30, 2013 10:43 AM MST

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard says it and the crew of a tugboat helped another tugboat break free from between two ice floes in Lake Michigan.

The tug Undaunted was pushing the unloaded barge Pere Marquette 41 at the time it became stuck about 20 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge. The Coast Guard in Sault Ste. Marie responded to a call about 4:10 a.m. Friday and there was concern the tug might run aground.

Crew helps free tugboat from Lake Michigan ice – 13abc.com Toledo (OH) News, Weather and Sports

MUSKEGON, MI – The coal-carrying Great Lakes freighter The Buffalo came into an iced-over Muskegon Lake Monday morning, Dec. 16 with a load for the B.C. Cobb Generating Plant.

Early season ice on Muskegon Lake made it a bit difficult to get the Buffalo in position to unload at the Cobb dock on the far east end of the lake, according to Consumers Energy spokesman Roger Morgenstern.

Just before noon, Morgenstern said that the captain of the 635-foot Buffalo was attempting to turn the ship around in the ice-jammed lake to back into the Cobb plant slip. To assist, Andrie Specialized’s 75-foot tuboat Meridith Ashton was being sent to assist.

Early-season ice on Muskegon Lake creating issues for B. C. Cobb coal shipments | MLive.com

NASA has recently erased pre-1940 Arctic warming from the historical record, but navigational records from the time showed that the number of ice-free days in Spitsbergen tripled during that time.

Variations of Arctic sea ice extent in the 20th century from dataset based on available Russian observations

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December 28 global sea ice area is second highest on record for the date.

There is a good chance that there will be more sea ice on Earth on January 1, than ever measured before on that date.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

Climate experts and Obama administration officials say that sea ice is disappearing due to global warming. Many say that the Arctic has been ice-free for the last few years.

the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013

– John Kerry, US Secretary of State

John Kerry: We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013?

James Hansen : ‘This is the last chance’

6/23/2008

“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.”

Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.

NASA warming scientist: ‘This is the last chance’ – USATODAY.com

June 26, 2013

The alarming loss of sea ice which has grown worse each summer over the past several decades, has taken a sharp turn for the worse: this year the loss is right in the middle, the most resilient part of the ice cover. This could lead to a completely ice-free Arctic Ocean by September.

Unprecedented hole is growing in Arctic sea ice – Fairfax Climate Watch

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

glaciologists aboard the Shokalskiy think the ship might have become inadvertently caught in the formation of a new area of fast ice, which could stay in place for several years.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/30/antarctic-rescue-mission-fails

Antarctic sea ice area is the highest on record for the date, up 20% since the 1970’s.

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008

 

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docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-02-c1.pdf

Compare with NCEP forecast for next week.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.