As yet another indicator of the impact January 2008 has had on the Northern Hemisphere, we find this story from Greenland’s Sermitsiaq News:
Minus 30 degrees Celsius. That’s how cold it’s been in large parts of western Greenland where the population has been bundling up in hats and scarves. At the same time, Denmark’s Meteorological Institute states that the ice between Canada and southwest Greenland right now has reached its greatest extent in 15 years.
‘Satellite pictures show that the ice expansion has extended farther south this year. In fact, it’s a bit past the Nuuk area. We have to go back 15 years to find ice expansion so far south. On the eastern coast it hasn’t been colder than normal, but there has been a good amount of snow.’
And on the front page, a story about that other “indicator of climate”, the polar bear:
More polar bears seen at Sisimiut
Apparently, they don’t have the same affinity for them as some others do.
Finally we have this latest Arctic sea ice graph from Cryosphere Today:
The blue line (which I added) shows that Arctic sea ice peaked just a bit above last years peak, at 13.5 million square kilometers. The anomaly graph below the main graph, also shows a large anomaly than last year.
It will be interesting to see how long it holds and if we see a gain or loss next year.
[…] Arctic ice levels are at their highest point in 15 […]
[…] afraid that all the polar ice is melting, you might be surprised to learn that, in some key areas, we have the most sea ice in 15 years. There are also the new findings from NASA and independently reported in the journal Nature as well […]
I am a simulation engineer since 1966 – UCLA Class of ’66 Masters Degree. Having worked in simulation throughout my career, I cannot understand the various scientists that predict, based on their simulation models, that the earth will blah, blah blah in 5/10/20… years. They can’t even get tomorrow’s weather correct so how can they predict past next weekend?
The Director of Global Warming for Greenpeace was asked ‘Why is the Pacific Ocean cooling.’ The response was ‘That is a global warming phenomena.’ Asked about the record low temperatures in the 48 states, he replied ‘That is a global warming phenomena.’ Are all things global warming phenomena.
Here we are about to spend trillions of dollars to TRY and control climate based on a model proffered by the UN IPCC with no proper international peer review–this, when the NWS has difficulties with weather forecast meer days in the future. Isn’t it time to have proper scientific review before bankrupting future generations for what might be normal climate variations?
In view the climate is now definitely cooling, and not warming, perhaps it’s time to find out the truth.