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.
The Arctic is the new holiday spot then? I dream of sunbathing, swimming, parties and relaxing in the sun. No need to worry about 28,000 drowned polar bears in these subliminally recent warm waters.
Thank goodness for global warming.
Oops! It was a hardware glitch. Guess all those polar bears have been recusitated then, and it’s again a hostile cold place once more, and norsemen are no longer cultivating crops in Greenland. Still, it was a great half an hour of of global warming
Dang !
All that ice done gone and climbed up onto Greenland and Canada.
Hey watch out Svend; you have a veritable ice imanust coming your way; I’d head for the mainland till it subsides.
This is like those wonderful pictures in Al Gores book, “An Inconvenient Lie” that show the earth from outer space in one of those freakish zero cloud instances that are so rare.
The picture I like is the one below in the story about the Russian volcano. See that lovely big precipice where the Artic Ocean falls off a cliff into the Pacific. Anybody care to try swimming up that cliff in their scuba gear against the prevaling waterfall ?
This place is a mine of information Anthony; dunno where you find this stuff that you keep thrilling us with.
If I hadn’t just paid my estimated taxes this morning, I woulr be off to my local REI to buy myself a Kayak, for my North Polar paddle trip.
Ah well it will have to keep; five years you say; if I can still paddle at that age, I’ll be on my way.
George
@jim Watson (08:49:36) :
“I thought it was kinda suspicious when a feller came into my store last night and offered to sell me 5 million square kilometers of bagged ice wholesale.
I said ‘no thanks’ and I reckon he took back wherever he got it from.”
How much was he askin’?
We are planning a bodacious home made, hand-cranked, ice cream social this weekend and we might run short on ice. (By any chance, did he have a lot of rock salt to go with it?)
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/2901/Media-Charged-with-Performing-Climate-Porn-on-Arctic-Ice-Shipping-Claims
I do believe we may have found an explanation for all those mammoths who were discovered inside ice-blocks, with undigested grass in their stomach (stomaches? Unsure of the stomach count for mammoths. No, don’t enlighten me, I’m just about to fix lunch.)
They wandered into a grassy, sunny patch of temporal image update glitch, and then the update got ’em.
REPLY: Matt was doing a tongue in cheek post, referring to NSIDC Walt Meier’s admonition when I questioned the NSIDC data glitches this past winter. – Anthony
I caught it and it made me laugh!
I had just went to JAXA, DMi, and ROOS and saw from DMi that it looks like re-growth has started. Then I came here and saw this story. Oi vey!
DMi
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
@H.R.
“(By any chance, did he have a lot of rock salt to go with it?”
Lol. Yes, he did. Have you checked the Google Earth view of the Bonneville Salt Flats lately?
All gone. He grabbed all that, too.
There’s a little black spot on the ice today,
It wasn’t there at all yesterday…
Someone more lyrical can finish it off I am sure.
And there I was about to run out and buy a copy of Waterworld and use it as a reference manual. Where the heck would I find a copy of Waterworld though?
MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA……….. I have an Ice Free desktop.
The power! The power of CO2….. IT’s alive…. Alivvvvvvve. Mwuhahahaha;-)
Mike Bryant (11:00:53) :
It looks like they fixed this… I wonder if they’ll ever bring the seasonal graphs up to date?
LOL. They did. My life on the Internet has meaning!
They’ll bring the seasonal graphs up to date when the scaredata is favorable.
Sorry MattN, my bad. Anthony, thanks for the correction. Had not had my coffee at time of posting. Once again, apologies to MattN.
Gene Nemetz (16:07:36) :
Yes, it is increasing again (Arctic Ice).
I have been watching DMI and wondering when AMSR-E would turn back up.
I see ice forming off Greenland’s West Coast.
David Ball (20:07:33) :
Many of us have done the same Dave. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Thank you Gene. Always enjoy your post very much. I have a hair trigger when it comes to CAGW, but my BS’o’meter seems to have a sensor malfunction of it’s own. 8^]
So all the Catlin-like hero wannabes waiting to traverse the Northwest passage missed their two hour window of opportunity this morning. What a shame for those eight noble groups of hero, give-me-money planet savers.
So it looks like the final score this year will be:
Northwest passage hero wannabes – minus 8, Icebreaker-broken ice, Northeast passage traversers – plus 1.
Take a tip from me you Northwest passage hero wannabes – rent some serious icebreakers next year. You’re probably gonna need some big expensive ones, so better start the fundraising now.
Can the drowning polar bears come through for you ??
Well I’ve packed my bags and I’m ready to go the taxi’s waiting it’s blowing its horn.
I’m leaving on a Ice floe
I don’t know when I’ll be back again.
Sorry, off post but last night on news night and I think for the first time a journo referred to the Mayor of Doncaster as a climate change denialist?
The bizarre comments about Gore detract from your blog. You can argue climate change if you like, but no one wants to see any of the predicted negative effects.
REPLY: I look at it the other way, the bizarre comments from Gore about a 5 year expectation of an ice free Arctic detract from the overall argument. – Anthony