NSIDC’s Mark Serreze must be thrilled, as he’ll now be able to justify some of his press releases. Gore must be ecstatic that his 2013 “Entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years” prediction has come in way ahead of schedule.
Click for the current Arctic Ice image.
Notice the contrast between Arctic and Antarctic. I can hear the Angelic choruses of “we told you so” taking flight now. Oh, wait.
* Hmmm, at second glance it looks like some sort of malfunction. We’ve seen this before in the SSMI sensor, perhaps something similar is going on now.
Even so, you’d think they’d notice it on their main webpage, and you’d think they’d put something up on the webpage to tell visitors about it?
Why do us bloggers have to be the ones to catch these things?
h/t to WUWT reader Tom who writes: “Hi Anthony, Looks like Al Gore was wrong about an ice free summer in a few years. Latest image from Cryosphere Today shows we’re ice free today.”
UPDATE: News travels fast. Within about 30 minutes of posting this essay poking a little fun at CT, the correct images are back online now which you can see here:
As WUWT commenter “Steamboat Jack” says: “That current Arctic Ice image was so pretty (and full of hidden meaning!) that I made it my desktop background!”
For those that missed the ice free interlude and would like to do the same, here is the hi-res “ice free Arctic” image.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/cryosphere_arctic_seaice_map.png
UPDATE: This message has been added to the Cryosphere Today main web page:
Sept. 14, 2009: No, the Arctic ice did not disappear this AM. There was a processing glitch in our maps for about an hour that caused the NH maps to be displayed without their sea ice. We apologize for any confusion.
I hope no polar bears nor moose drowned when the ice reappeared over them.
Even Mercury which is next to the sun is thought to have ice at its poles (at least in some craters)… why should it be all gone here on Earth?
Mercuries atmosphere won’t support temperatures or pressures capable of supporting temperatures that would allow for seasonal melt. The atmosphere is thin enough that it is almost like space itself.
The trick would be to find Ice on Venus.
“Both ships left South Korea in late July, negotiating the passage off north-eastern Siberia behind two Russian icebreakers.”
Icebreakers? Why? If the Arctic is ice free, who needs them? (I guess they made the trip before this happened …) And what’s the big deal? I could make the NE Passage in a Zodiac behind a couple of Russian icebreakers in the dead of winter. Particularly at night if they were nuclear powered. Just follow the glowing water.
AnonyMoose (10:03:19) :
> I hope no polar bears nor moose drowned when the ice reappeared over them.
Sadly, they all drowned when the ice disappeared. Polar Bears are no more.
If you look closely at the site, the northern sea ice area chart seems to be ticking UP.
Any word on how much tundra escaped while the ice was evaporated??
If the ice is back we need to post the headline, “Uprecedented Ice growth in the Arctic, Polar Bears Cheer victory over AGW.”
Poor Al Gore..
for a second he was dreaming…
😆 😆 😆
Thank heavens we have WUWT to tell the world these ‘scientists’ have failed again. Shame on them! [snip]
REPLY: All computer driven imagery eventually fails in one way or another, which is why you need quality control to keep an eye on things. – Anthony
Also, NASA’s photographs show that beer, eggs, corn, and pork has been unbittered, cooked, popped, and baked by global warming:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/09/global-warming-affects-beer-eggs-corn.html
Moreover, the case of the beer has probably been published in peer-reviewed literature – it’s unbittering by 0.0006 part of the alpha acids every year. 😉
Dusty,
“View the updated high resolution animation of this year’s sea ice retreat (01/01/2007 – 09/23/2007). WARNING – This quicktime animation is very large at 200Mb, but it illustrates nicely the ”
It looks like they fixed this… I wonder if they’ll ever bring the seasonal graphs up to date?
Mike
Maybe they just wanted to see how it will look when their dreams come true…
Bet you won’t see this error on the nightly news,or MSNBC,CNN,NBC,CBS or ABC.
Sept. 14, 2009: No, the Arctic ice did not disappear this AM. There was a processing glitch in our maps for about an hour that caused the NH maps to be displayed without their sea ice. We apologize for any confusion.
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Al Gore is currently under sedation.
Hu McCulloch (10:33:43) :
Any word on how much tundra escaped while the ice was evaporated??
All of it! It was last seen heading towards Japan, where it is expected
to meet up with Godzilla and Mothra to plan a coordinated attack once
we hit the “Tipping Point”.
Here they are awaiting Tundra.
@ur momisugly William Ledsham
“Sept. 14, 2009: No, the Arctic ice did not disappear this AM. There was a processing glitch in our maps for about an hour that caused the NH maps to be displayed without their sea ice. We apologize for any confusion.”
Dear Mr Ledsham
I thought you may wish to hear the transcript of a message I picked up from
the SS Beluga Fraternity:-
Bzzzzzzzzzzzz Mayday Mayday
Guten Tag ve are stuck in ice because were were told zee arctic vos Ice free.
Over
Ve sent ze ice breakers away and ve are stucked. Also we are f******ed
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Polar bears are invading the ship and ve have all retired to the badezimmer vich is the only room on ze ship which has a lock
Mayday Mayday is anyone zere over Mein Gott zesse bears are big arghhhhhhhhh
I am a prophet. You will believe my prophecies.
I am a prophet. You will believe my prophecies.
I am a prophet. You will believe my prophecies.
I am a prophet. You will believe my prophecies.
While obviously under control by the Illuminati, Anthony Watts wrote ” this could be a processing glitch where an error in data overlay caused the map to be output with no data. – Anthony”
Ha! You thing the readers of this blog aren’t sophisticated enough to see the blatant cover up attempt, trying to make us believe that The Great One, Al Gore, is wrong? Thanks to your inadventant slip mentioning processing glitches we now know that the plan going forward will be to synthethise the faux look of ice over the melted poles. Can’t fool us. No siree.
It must be true, the BBC says so. “Data from other satellites, such as the US Icesat and the European ERS/Envisat missions, has already indicated that some of this cover is diminishing at a rapid rate in response to climate change, with the biggest melting occurring in the Arctic.” See “‘Ice Explorer’ ready for launch” at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8255605.stm
I love how they Photoshop the starry background into the image. Adds a nice touch, even when they post a bad image!
“Why do us bloggers have to be the ones to catch these things?”
We’re the ones actually paying attention to it as consumers of the “information” they publish?
Note I didn’t say data as they don’t provide “RAW” data since it’s MASSAGED with a happy ending towards the “current predictions”.
It’s like in the video camera business with claims from manufactures that they provide “uncompressed raw frame data”! It’s a lie! Even high end camera companies such as RED (red.com) use a 3 to 1 lossey (yes lossey) compression method (wavelet). So the end result is that it’s close to being the real data the pixel elements capture but never the actual data (actually there are a few higher end companies products that do provide real raw but they cost oh so much more). So when using high end digital cameras and other sensors it’s likely that the data has been compressed and some data lost.
I wonder how many science missions on satellites and probes actually compress the data using wavelet or some other LOSSEY method? Spooky. This is why it’s VERY important that there is a scientific AUDIT TRAIL going from each paper back to the original data source including how the devices capture the data and all the so called “calibrations” and “adjustments” and other “tricks” used to “massage” the “data”! Oops since it’s been processed it’s actually not data but now it’s information disconnected from the data especially if data resolution and detail has been lost in the processing of it!
Not only does the “ice free arctic picture” look ice free but it’s pitch black and looks a lot like a black hole is swallowing the Earth starting with the ice at the north pole. I guess Santa finally ate too much and became a singularity and imploded taking the Ice, Earth and eventually our entire solar system with it.
AnonyMoose (10:03:19) :
I hope no polar bears nor moose drowned when the ice reappeared over them.
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hahahahahhaahaha
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OT A different new post needed, perhaps one of the most popular kind, those about the “Watts Effect”, and to make it more tasty, kind of:
“The Watts Effect, some say it is indicative of an electrical sun”
Regarding Hu’s comment, (Hu McCulloch (10:33:43) see —
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/quote-of-the-week-5-waxmans-stunningly-stupid-statement/
“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point – they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap..” from Congressman Henry Waxman