This a satellite shot
from the file–
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/2009252/?multiple&resolutionlist

Lower and middle right shows
shattered scattered ice pieces
which can only be the result of intense
icebreaker activity–
warm water or air does not disrupt ice in this manner–
With minimal attention it
will be easy for you to differentiate
between the ice chunks and the cloud cover.

last time I saw THAT word was in Billy Bathgate. Ranks up there with “caprophagous”… which is my considered and erudite opinion of catastrophic warmers in general and RC commenters in particular.

But Denmark is actually IN the Netherlands, right Jari? [Just kidding]

Janice (07:17:49) :

Perhaps arctic sensors and satellites appear to be sentient beings, and a Vogon is reading poetry to them, and they are self-destructing in an attempt to make the pain stop.

Not altogether unbelievable. Here is a sample of Vogon poetry:

“Oh freddled gruntbuggley, thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t! “”"

I’ve actually heard people who can talk like that for three hours straight; they do it all the time on “Coast to Coast AM” that evolved out of the Art Bell Radio show; now hosted by George Noory.

They rattle on about Harmonic Convergences, and other tripe; and they do it in such a way, that half the time, I can’t tell if George believes a word of it or not; same goes for some of his other hosts that do the program on the weekends.

Sometimes you even can read that stuff here on WUWT; and it even gets followed by other visitors.

George

Now you’ve done it. My CPU just tried to escape so it could throw itself off the balcony.

Perhaps arctic sensors and satellites appear to be sentient beings, and a Vogon is reading poetry to them, and they are self-destructing in an attempt to make the pain stop.

Not altogether unbelievable. Here is a sample of Vogon poetry:

“Oh freddled gruntbuggley, thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!

Apologies…

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php

What he didn’t mention (I will) is that the smaller lakes and ponds now are having an ice layer on them. That is rather ODD for MN this early. Today it is rain and snow. I’m looking out at trees covered with GREEN leafs! Apparently the cold has come on us so fast, that it has “locked” the leafs on the trees, “frozen” them, as it would be, at the late summer early fall stage. Now for the kicker – - – this is being blamed on a deep jet stream pull, bringing down an ARCTIC AIR BLAST.

Maybe Catlin can come to Lake Minnetonka in January, and get some “Arctic expidition practice”. Nice thing is, by following the right route, they could pop off for a nice burger or “Bloody Mary”, in a warm business..when the going gets too rough. Well, copping out early should be no problem for them. (They’ve done it before.)

This is why I prefer using the JAXA AMSRE data from the AQUA satellite to look at current and recent history sea ice events. The newer AMSRE sensor has not shown any such errors, drifts or glitches during its history.

Likewise, all though I also use CT because I prefer area over extent and that has a longer history. CT changed to AMSR_E anyway but have apparently done a splice for their comparison page (although I don’t use that often). NSIDC switched to the other SSMI satellite and appears to be OK since.
After ArcticROOS did their switch it looked too erratic to me so I haven’t used it in a long while.