Bad news from NSIDC

Hopefully some of the Catlin crew will be there to talk about their experiences with the -40 degree Arctic springtime heat.

NSDIC — Now into cooking ice. What’s next, cooking cities …
Need new source of real and accurate data, or we need to do our own ice from raw satellite data software.

The last phrase of CATHERINE BRAHIC’s column is “watch this space…”
Well, I am still watching..
While trying to find if she did post an update (I could not find any) I came across this: (anti-skeptic “facts”)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11462-climate-change-a-guide-for-the-perplexed.html

It is clear that he was talking of the North Pole itself, not the Arctic Ice Cap in its entirety:

“There is this thin first-year ice even at the North Pole at the moment,” says Serreze. “This raises the spectre – the possibility that you could become ice free at the North Pole this year.”
Despite its news value in the media, the North Pole being ice free is not in itself significant. To scientists, Serreze points out, “this is just another point on the globe”.

So this:

As we know, that didn’t even come close to being true. Summer 2008 had more arctic ice than summer 2007, and summer 2007 was not “ice free” by any measure.

Has no relation to his actual comment.
Nor did he “forecast” an ice-free North Pole. A “possibility” is not a certainty.
REPLY: Bird man, you know nothing about handling the media, what matters is the public perception and headlines, like the one at ABC for which he is directly responsible. The fact that he did NOTHING, NOT ONE THING, to mitigate the error he started in the press, speaks volumes. Spin it however you want, but he did nothing to correct it. A scientist of character would act to correct the misconception he started. Yet here it is, a year later, and the ABC story is still up, unchanged.
And I should add this comment from Serreze “this is just another point on the globe”. What absolute tripe. It is the only point he is interested and the focus of the story itself.
I saw Serreze recently ona History channel special and he repeated the same sorts of propaganda in his interview. He knows EXACTLY what he is doing.
– Anthony

Without intending to insult any person wearing a beard, but Dr. Serreze looks a bit like Santa. You believe in Santa or not.
NSIDC without a shimmer of a doubt is a warmist platform, shame on them.

Why do I have this bad feeling that the new movie “Frozen”, will be effective propaganda? “Cold Matters”… that’s why the 2007 ice melt will be prominently featured as Serreze drones on about our burning, dying planet, as an impressive heartwrenching score makes even the most hard-hearted shed a tear. The polar bears will starve and drown on cue as biologists describe the desperate animals that have even had to resort to cannibalism. We will fly closely over miles upon miles of dry, cracked steaming lakebeds. The sea level rises will be so much better handled than the simple graphics used by AIT. Every scenario that has been credibly discounted and disproven over and over will once again be brought back from the dead. Kilimanjaro is just too good, too cinematic NOT to use. The Hockeystick Graph will be new and improved and even scarier. As the spaghetti lines of the graph move slowly from left to right around the huge sphere, the violins, the timpani, the trumpets will crescendo along with the upturn to our present day. The ocean will boil and churn and acidify before our very eyes. There will even be footage of the tsunami along with the colorful global sea level images. Hurricane Katrina will play a major role as one of the villains of this fraudulent main feature. Of course, the real criminal in this farce is you and me and a way of life that has brought even more life and wealth into this world, because we are the spreaders of the filthy CO2 that has brought our beautiful planet to within a hairsbreadth of destruction. And to prove our culpability the Mauna Loa data along with those beautiful colorful moving images from the AIRS team will put the nail in our coffin…
Don’t worry if you can’t afford a ticket, it’s free if you just register to vote.
Almost forgot… you also get your choice of an action figure made of soap. Gore, Hansen, or Mann… which dope on a rope will YOU choose??

It seems that in 1958 the submarine USS Skate became the first vessel to surface at the Pole. How thin would the ice have to be to allow a submarine to break through?

The fact that he did NOTHING, NOT ONE THING, to mitigate the error he started in the press, speaks volumes.

Where is the error in his statement that there was a possibility of the north pole being ice free last summer?
Where was the error in the headline that said exactly the same thing?
What is there to correct?
REPLY: Oh puhleeeze. Where is the result of the headline “North pole could be ice free in 2008”? Show me that result, you can’t because it didn’t happen. You are defending scaremongering, and it shows that you have no scruples. What next, defending Waxman? Serreze did nothing; zero, zilch, nada, he let the error he started live on in headlines worldwide. If I had made a statement in error that the media picked up you’d be all over me to fix it, retract it, deny it, whatever, Serreze gets a free pass…because you (and your friends) have no scruples. – Anthony

I just got up from taking a nap to see this—am I still sleeping and having a surreal nightmare??

from 1962.
Seadragon (SSN-584), foreground, and her sister Skate (SSN-578) during a rendezvous at the North Pole in August 1962. Note the men on the ice beyond the submarines.
Seems to me that it isn’t all that unusual to have no ice at the pole.