While not hugely significant by itself, it is interesting to note that the DMI 30% Arctic extent has reached its highest number for this date, exceeding 2006. The refreeze has been very fast:
Here’s the zoom:
The JAXA 15% plot show it equal with 2006, and a steepening slope:
JAXA AMSR-E Sea Ice Extent -15% or greater – click to enlarge
Anthony,
Cheerleading for ice leaves me cold (pun intended).
It is kinda cool (pun intended) though.
Chill out (pun intended) and smile, it will only get colder/icey.
: )
John
And the next month is apparently the month of steepest ice growth. It looks like the “death spiral” is postponed.
But, what’s really happening over Greenland?
I was looking at that yesterday actually. I was wondering about the slope tapering off in November. I’m guessing this is about when it reaches land? Overall, 2010 fits right in with the data of the last decade. Unless there are several more years that go below 2007, this could mean a recovery. Have to wait and see. But of course, news reports always take a different starting point, so even during a recovery, the linear regression will still point downward.
That is a sign of warming.
Actually they can’t comment on this because it doesn’t follow the dogma.
Just a minor typo correction. The Arctic ice extent has reached its highest number, not it’s</em (that is, it is) highest number
Does this mean that the cuddly wuddly polar bears won’t have any sea left to catch the fish in? Or that they will drown because there’s no dry land and they can’t swim?
I find this all sooooooo confusing. 🙂
Does DMI data start in 2005?
MSM shouting from the rooftops? The silence is deafening.
AAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! At this rate we will be going into another ice age!!!
Sorry, that was the scare in the 1970’s wasn’t it? And anyway, only climate alarmists are allowed to project current very short term trends into long term disasters.
“Reports of sea ice have been greatly exaggerated..”
Oh Great! Now I have to worry that Global Climate Disruption (is that the current term, I forget) is going to starve (cute little) Polar Bears because the seals won’t be able to get through the thick ice of the artic. It is my thought that we need expensive remedial UN action!
Right on the heels of this apparent cooling trend is news (in Nature) that there is now a link between reduced solar activity and warming. (Paper by Joanna Haigh, an atmospheric physicist at Imperial College London.)
It is increasing clear that it doesn’t matter if it is warming or cooling; more ice or less ice; more sun or less sun . . . it’s all about climate “change we can believe in” and devising some logical link to human activity as a premise to control that activity and impose a Progressive Collectivist ideology. That ideology is, of course, one of “environmental justice” and redistribution of resources and wealth.
This is the little fact that is always left out of the AGW panic propaganda – “the Arctic Icecap is Melting!!!” – ummm – yeah – and it also refreezes in the fall/winter.
“cuddly wuddly polar bears…”
Uhhhh…no.
Survive a Bear Attack
The Polar Bear:
The polar bear is the most deadly of all. While his normal food is seal, they have been known, for centuries, to attack humans. Until the introduction of firearms, the native people of the north have lived in fear of them. Many early explorers have told horror stories of polar bear attacks. These bears are known to stalk and hunt humans. If you are in polar bear country carry a firearm or avoid the area.
Definitively worse than we thought. Maybe Al Gore is planning to visit the North Pole.
Ahem, this is only weather, not climate!
This is the time of the year when you hear less and less about runaway melt and starving polar bears. Thank God for small mercies!
Mark Serreze and his lack of Death spiral consensus even in his own head!
http://tinyurl.com/2f228jp
Please replace “it’s” by its full form “it is” in your first sentence and see if it makes sense.
I’m pretty concerned with the ENSO numbers. I’ve never seen a drop that big, and compared with the gulf stream slowdown, this upcoming year may be colder than anything we’ve seen in 30 years.
Enjoy the warm weather while it lasts.
A bit OT, but I have a friend who has visited Polar Bear country a few times, and he says that you have to carry a tobacco tin with two pebbles in it. When a bear attacks, he says, you shake the tin and the rattling frightens the bear.
Anyone tried this?
Aaargh! It’s 2 days before the day after tomorrow! Why does the entire AGW scheme seem like it’s copying South Park?
If you take the data from the JAXA website and calculate an annual running average since 2002, you will find that, overall, the ice extent has actually declined by about 5% in the last 8 years. The thickness has also declined.
I bow to no one with respect to my scepticism on catastrophic man-made global warming but only because warmists cherry-pick the data and turn a blind eye to the counter-factuals which undermine their precious – not to say lucrative – hypothesis.
Sceptics should uphold higher standards. Not sure this is happening here.
And now to sports. Mother Nature took a 3 game to nothing lead over Crowd AWG when, in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, her potential “Closer of the Year” – Arctic, threw AWG’s rookie utility player 75/25% a fast raising ice ball for strike three! While the series is never over till it’s over, having never lost to fools who mess with her, this reporter can see the writing on the wall – Mother Nature is going to have to contract for a new trophy case!
As for the weather, yesterday we had some, we will again today and tomorrow looks about the same. Stay tuned for more ……
Poor dumb arctic ice, doesn’t know that its supposed to be disappeared.
Looks a frighteningly steep climb! Brrrr!
@frank K
Re ‘cuddly wuddly polar bears’
I am British. We do sarcasm/irony. And understatement.