The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 – something that hasn’t happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.
Louis Fortier, scientific director of ArcticNet, a Canadian research network, said the sea ice is melting faster than predicted by models created by international teams of scientists, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the weather. My most prized possession was a small black softcover book named “Weather.”
I wondered what caused the drought which drove the Anasazi out of Chaco Canyon. I wondered what caused the Dust Bowl. What caused the MWP, which some climate scientists apparently felt the need to hide? To date, I have never seen any good answers to these questions.
Weather and climate are both poorly understood, chaotic systems. Weather models (sometimes) do an excellent job for 72 hours or so, but beyond that they break down rapidly. The strength of Hurricane Igor was mispredicted just hours in advance.
Rutgers University Snow Anomalies For September 18
The -13ºC temperatures and extra snow must be due to all that “excess energy in the climate system” – as Joe Romm would explain. Cold is the new hot.
At 75 MPH, Fox News’ “Monster Hurricane” is struggling to hang on.
Exaggerating every weather event is exactly what the anti-engineering crowd wants people to do.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/24688.html
Summer in Siberia is going out with a bang. Temperatures in Ojmjakon, Russia are currently 8 degrees Fahrenheit (-13º Celsius.). No doubt the press and Joe Romm will cover this with the same zeal as they covered Moscow a couple of weeks ago.
To make it more clear what is happening, these images from September 16-18 show the pole hole growing in size. As the sun sets over the Arctic, our visible satellite imagery is also disappearing. Thus the need for microwave imagery to measure the ice.
Since 1998, GISS has shown some interesting changes to the US temperature data – as seen in the blink comparator above. The present got warmer and the past got cooler.
Nevertheless, the most recent GISS graph shows that US temperatures have cooled back down to close to the mean.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2010july/figure2.pdf
GISS released this graph in July, showing unabated warming since the mid-1970s.
