According to NSIDC maps, between the end of July and the end of September, more than 90% of the older, thicker green multi-year ice (MYI) melted in this 1000 km wide region – while leaving the thinner, more vulnerable turquoise and pink ice largely intact.
“It seems like we’re starting to move towards this transition of a seasonally ice-free Arctic state”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/05/3030213.htm?section=justin
The Arctic is seeing record ice growth this fall, and there will likely be a large increase in multi-year ice before spring. And Discovery News is right on top of it!
(It is important to get the children’s minds straight, so that they don’t have to be executed by their school teachers.)
The NPCC (Neanderthal Panel on Climate Change) said there was a 90% probability that it was caused by human activities.
The 40-odd thousand years leading up to the last Ice Age included countless wild and sharp climatic oscillations that would have provided the most sensational of world headlines had our Neanderthal cousins had satellite television, mobile phones or internet.
The regularity of drastic climate change would soon have offered little by way of breaking news.
A Google search for extreme climate change produces about 24,600,000 results.
Turns out that the Maunder minimum must have been hot. Throw all the historical records out, we have a new three year study.
A stronger Sun actually cools the Earth
Talk about a press release which never should have been made.
There is no ice in the Hudson Bay, and this is normal for the time of year.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/recent365.anom.region.13.html
Those poor penguins are doomed!
But wait, there is just one minor problem with the computer model.
NHC is forecasting that subtropical storm Otto is going to become a hurricane tomorrow. I overlaid Otto’s projected path on top of the most recent Unisys SST map and noticed that it is headed straight for a patch of cooler water left behind by Igor. They expect it to become a hurricane after it enters the region of cooler water.
Any odds on “Hurricane” Otto’s prognosis?
