NASA finally admits it Arctic cyclone in August ‘broke up’ and ‘wreaked havoc’ on sea ice — Reuters reports Arctic storm played ‘key role’ in this season’s sea ice reduction.
‘The cyclone remained stalled over the arctic for several days…pushing [sea ice] south to warmer waters where it melted’
Monday, September 24, 2012 – By Marc Morano – Climate Depot
In a September 18 video posted by NASA on its website, they admit that the Arctic cyclone, which began on August 1, “wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover” by “breaking up sea ice.” (NASA story here)
Global warming activists have been giddy in their hyping of the satellite era record low Arctic sea ice extent while ignoring the satellite record sea ice expansion in the Antarctic.
Many climate activists have sought to downplay the significance that the Arctic cyclone played on this year’s summer sea ice in the Arctic. But this new inconvenient video report from NASA now makes the warmists’ attempt to deny the cyclones role in 2012’s Arctic sea ice conditions — impossible.
The September 18 NASA video notes: “A powerful storm wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover in August 2012. This visualization shows the strength and direction of the winds and their impact on the ice: the red vectors represent the fastest winds, while blue vectors stand for slower winds.”
Reuters news service filed a September 21 report based on NASA’s video admission titled: “NASA says Arctic cyclone played ‘key role’ in record ice melt.” The news segment details how the Arctic sea ice was reduced due to “a powerful cyclone that scientists say ‘wreaked havoc’ on ice cover during the month of August.” (Reuters on “Arctic Cyclone” — 0:47 second long segment — Rob Muir reporting.)
Reuters – Sept. 21 – “NASA says a powerful cyclone formed off the coast of Alaska in early August and moved toward the center of the Arctic ocean, weakening the already thin sea ice as it went.
A large section North of the Chukchi Sea was cut off by the churning storm and pushed south to warmer waters where it melted.
The cyclone remained stalled over the arctic for several days…Scientists say a similar storm decades ago would have had much less impact on the sea ice because they say the ice was not as vulnerable then as it is now.”
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Here’s another good example, 2008:
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/observation_images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png
See how the ice flunks in April/May but recovers in the Autumn, spot the pattern in the NAO/AO in those months:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/norm.nao.monthly.b5001.current.ascii.table
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/monthly.ao.index.b50.current.ascii.table
And then see how the ice for all years since 2007 drops off fast from June to August, all these months are in negative NAO territory.
fretslider says:
“It’s apretty blatant error according to what you say, Phil, but the NYT isn’t.”
Please re-read the NYT article and note the use of the words “near” and “at”.
“near” is not “at”
Skate surfaced “near” the Pole in 1958.
Skate surfaced “at” the Pole in 1959.
Precision is important when discussing records for first to surface “at” the Pole.
That’s an epic fail on your part, Phil. Try again the weasel strategy doesn’t count.
fretslider says:
September 28, 2012 at 7:52 am
It’s apretty blatant error according to what you say, Phil, but the NYT isn’t.
Yes and you’ll be pleased to know that NBC has corrected the mistake.
Phil: Yes and you’ll be pleased to know that NBC has corrected the mistake.
The NYT still remains correct…..
But the question of Arctic ice coverage disappearing altogether is rather like Harold Camping’s blind faith in his doomsday predictions.
In November 1922, The Monthly Weather Review reported on unusually warm temperatures and rapid ice melt in the arctic. “So little ice has never been seen before.” In fact, scientific exploration that took place in August 1922, sailed in open water all the way to 81° 29 minutes North in ice free waters. This was the “farthest north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus.”
One crew member, James Hester, aboard the USS Skate said, “the Skate found open water both in the summer and following winter (1958 and 1959). We surfaced near the North Pole in the winter through thin ice less than 2 feet thick. We came up through a very large opening in 1958 that was 1/2 mile long and 200 yards wide. On both trips we were able to find open water. We were not able to surface through ice thicker than 3 feet.”
In 1947, Dr. Hans Ahlmann, a Swedish physicist, predicted the catastrophic loss of sea ice within a few years.
In 1969, The New York Times predicted the Arctic would be ice-free by 1970.
In 2008. Dr. Olav Orheim, head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, said the Arctic would be ice-free by that same summer.
Other predictions suggested the demise of North Pole ice by 2010, 2011, and now 2013 and 2015, and so on.
There is still ice covering the arctic.
@Frestslider
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