From the “weather is not climate department” another report of ice further south than has been recently experienced. Here’s a picture from this China Daily news story:
From Maritime Global.net
CHINA PORTS FREAK WEATHER ALERT
By David Hughes
Published: Tue, 26 January 2010
Freak weather conditions and/or abnormal weather patterns have been reported in several parts of the world during recent months warns the American P&I Club. One of the latest examples is a significant build-up of sea ice in some major northern Chinese ports, the volume exceeding, it says, anything experienced in more than 30 years.
In an alert to its members, the club says the problem is centred around Bohai on the northern Yellow Sea coast, affecting ports such as Bayuquan and Dalian. At Bayuquan, patches of ice 500-600mm thick have formed in some places, while lesser patches have been seen in the immediate vicinity of the port.
Three icebreakers are working to avoid delays to ships, while the local Maritime Safety Authority is strictly supervising inbound and outbound vessel traffic.
Other northern ports – such as Jingtang, Caofeidian and Xingang – are said to be not so seriously affected. On January 17, the Chinese National Sea Weather Forecast Station reported that floating ice around Liaodong Gulf extended as far as some 60 nautical miles from shore, at Bohai Gulf around 22 miles, Northern Yellow Sea around 14 miles, and Laizhou Gulf around 33 miles.
However, with more cold weather fronts expected later, ice coverage around the Bohai coast could expand, according to the club’s correspondents in China, Huatai Agency & Consultant Services Ltd.
The club advises that vessels scheduled to call at northern ports, especially Bayuquan, should be ready for extreme temperatures and ensure Port State Control requirements are strictly followed to avoid unnecessary delay.
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Here’s another news story from AsiaOne News:
Bohai bay turns into block of ice
h/t to Ron De Haan (Note: please fix your email!!)
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Is this the same ice marked in red on the GISS temperature reports?
Don’t worry folks, the warming is in the pipeline. Just you wait and see. The cooling is temporary and is only masking the runaway warming that is already underway. Run for the hills, hide your children, shoot the deniers.
Even Chuck Norris can’t save us now.
— End of sarcastic rant —
It’s worse than we thought.
No, no. These are fairly large variations atop a very small secular change. They’ve got it exactly backwards.
“Mike86 (14:05:24) :
But why is the sea ice extent curving down?”
Yes, looks funny. But don’t forget the PDO only recently went negative so we are at the very start of the cool phase. I read the ocean heat content went up until about 2005 or so and stayed flat since:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/24/why-does-ocean-heat-content-diverge-from-giss-projections/#more-12076
This is only a harbinger of things to come. I expect it to start going down slowly now.
We are now where we were in 1981. Only in 1981 we went into the positive phase and now we enter the negative phase. So don’t expect sea ice to raise much this winter. The ocean is still relatively warm. It won’t stay this way IMHO.
Lets see, an ice patch 100 km wide and, ballpark guess … 1000 km long equals 100,000 km^2 of ice. I wonder if Cryosphere Today considers this in its calculation of “Northern Sea Ice” area?
kwik (12:57:16) :
Just saw this over at Jo Nova’s site. So, why do they laugh…
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gallows humor, quite a few are going to hang.
I get the sarcasm, but isn’t it interesting that in nearly every year, just at about this time, the growth in ice extent flattens or declines? Then it begins growing again, sometimes spectacularly. You’ll note that the temperatures north of 80 have increased markedly again over the past week, and so there has been the replacement of cold air at the surface with warm air from the south, and I wonder if the ice pack is compressed a bit by this surface flow?
Man … I can HARDLY wait ’til winter is over and CAGW can start in earnest again … it has been so friggen cold this year … (did I saw “I hate cold”?)
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Freak weather conditions
abnormal weather patterns
and others…. always amuse me.
The conditions of the Holocene are not the normal climate for earth. The Holocene is ‘abnormal’ to climatic average and to a large extent in relation to our understanding of past interglacial periods the Holocene is ‘abnormal’.
Why do people ‘freak’ out over minor variations within the Holocene?
Television is the Ministry of Fear.
They sell abstract progressive concepts like the war on Terror, the War on Climate, and the War on Drugs. Fear of Terrorism is an intangible progressive concept. You can’t win a war against an intangible. Climate is so complex and changes so slowly, it can never be 100% understood, therefor it becomes an intangible abstract concept that can be exploited using fear as well. Drugs are inanimate objects. You may as well wage war against rocks, that would be just as useful.
The reason the Ministry of Fear exploits the stupidity of man, is for their owners monetary gain and their owners increase in Power and Control.
Utopia is not achievable. The founders of our country figured that out a long time ago. Human nature has never changed and never will. You will never get everyone on the planet to think the same, unless you get rid of everyone who thinks different, and event then human nature will take over in the end.
The Constitution of the US puts limits on the exploits of human nature. If only we would use it.
OT but I’m also worried about the coral. If it gets warm it bleaches and now this picture from the BBC if it gets cold it bleaches.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/sci_nat_enl_1264703202/html/1.stm
Is not the natural state of coral perhaps to be bleached?
Latitude:
Sorry, if I gave the wrong impression.
I’ve been dying to add the travesty comment fot while, but someone always beatd me to it 🙁
Getting back to the story, BJT “Most ice for 40 years”, that gets us back to when Hansen et al were bleeting about the next ice age!
The bedwetters are trying, desperately, to claim all this cold weather is a sign of global warming FFS! They have created a huge credibility gap with their BS and they don’t have a clue what to do next.
And again: The next Ice Age is a result of Anthropogenic Global Warming, AGW!
E-mail fixed, thanks Anthony.
With more ice area, more people can now go ice-fishing.
As expected, more headlines from China due to coolness, but as far as I can hear, the CMA ( China Met Administration ) claims that it is a result of AGW, when some of my Meteorology friends in Hong Kong hear this, we simply laughed. ( notice that Hong Kong has its own Observatory, and HKO is not blatant enough to claim this )
Confucious says it’s getting cold along The Great Wall of China.
“Time to build another coal fired generating plant.”
I understand they do it everyday.
Ya, China is going to agree to CO2 reduction treaties…
And I got a bridge in Brooklyn…
PS: Many place in China had near normal temperature in this winter so far, with CMA’s Feb prediction of warmer-than-average, some warmist in China is already claiming that “Even such a strong AO negetivity is not able to bring China to a cooler-than-normal condition, surely a sign of AGW”
Hey, it’s still warm compared to say ABSOLUTE ZERO. And ice is just another state of water, which is just another state of steam. And we know what steam does, right? It cooks lobsters!
Don’t post but here is a neat little writeup that may be used when the numbers get published of the combined wind generator’s contribution (if any) during the European cold snap – it should be interesting:
http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/11537/Where_were_renewable_energy_sources_during_cold_snap_.html
Ha, you folks have forgotten about the pipeline of heat. This ice will quickly be gone. Move along-nothing to see here.
Kate (13:23:34)
For an alternative view :
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=4992
I can’t work out why there are so many references to the Arctic sea ice coverage here. As far as I know the northern Chinese ports are some way south of the Arctic circle and any ice here won’t be included in arctic coverage – I suspect it won’t be included in global ice cover either.
For those puzzling about the extent of Arctic sea ice, don’t forget that the coverage depends on prevailing wing patterns as well as temperature – even the met office conceded that the record low a couple of years ago was due in large part to wind effects.
Finally, sea ice extent is so last decade – what really counts is thickness (we had a belly full of that first year, second year talk last year), but the charts don’t differentiate between 15% and 100% sea ice – it’s all ice to them. My suspicion is that it may not stretch so far, but it’s really top quality, joined up stuff that is going to be difficult for the wind to shift. And pretty resistant to next summer’s attempts to shift it too.
Correction para 2 – “prevailing wind patterns”