Sunshinehours reports that the Antarctic Sea Ice Extent for September 19th, 2014 is 20.11297 million square kilometers,
which is 1,535,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 climatological mean.
Another 58,000 sq km. was added since yesterday, making it the 7th All-Time Record in 7 Days.
This new record is 610,000 sq km higher than the previous daily record. The red line represents 2014 data.
![antarctic_sea_ice_extent_zoomed_2014_day_261_1981-2010[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/antarctic_sea_ice_extent_zoomed_2014_day_261_1981-20101.png?quality=75)
Data for Day 261. Data source: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/
NSIDC concurs:
![S_stddev_timeseries[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/s_stddev_timeseries1.png?quality=75)
A look at the data presented by NSIDC as it would be from space if there were no clouds:
h/t to Thomas Wysmuller
More data on the WUWT Sea Ice page
UPDATE: Andres Valencia reports in comments:
The University of Bremen (The new satellite “Shizuku”, AMSR2 sensor) will have to rescale their plots:
![extent_s_running_mean_amsr2_previous[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/extent_s_running_mean_amsr2_previous1.png?quality=75)
Source: http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr2/extent_s_running_mean_amsr2_previous.png
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A bulletin for Australian farmers: forget about BOM forecasts, you are definitely having late spring frosts because of this rapid expansion of ice around Antarctica. When Chris T’s Ship of Fools expedition got caught in summer sea ice and experienced cold blizzards during the ice minimum after the previous year’s record, I was convinced that this was going to be the beginning of a big cool down of Australia, New Zealand, Argentina (etc.) and even South Africa.
There is a good reason why all the rhetoric is about the N.H. and even it is not giving warmists a lot of joy with ice extent. I don’t buy the reports about how warm it has been globally (new record in August) and I know the keepers of the thermometers are squeezing every tenth they can out of their data to try to limit the plateau. In Canada, we definitely have had a cold summer and it has come to an early end with a cool August and September. They say +0.5C this morning in Ottawa when there were frost patches on my lawn and it has been snowing in the central and western part of the country. With this new record Antarctic ice, it is very annoying also to see NSIDC’s map showing a tight fit of the “climatological” extent on the actual extent. There should be a lot more white fringing the orange line to be an honest depiction. Also, they are going to have to add an extension on their long term ice extent graph – the line is reaching the top.
I wonder how the warmies are feeling? Are they looking at it quizzically, wondering how this makes sense? Are they indifferent, thinking “Yep, this is consistent.” Or are they increasing conviction, thinking “OMG, it’s much worse than we thought and gerbil worming is accelerating”?
And of course! Global warming is to blame ! This just in:
“According to scientists cited by LiveScience, global warming is the cause of both the Arctic’s sea ice decrease and Antarctica’s sea ice increase. Scientists report that Antarctica’s sea increase may be the consequence of more powerful winds. These winds, according to studies cited by LiveScience, are more powerful because the southern polar vortex is agitating the air closer to Antarctica as a result of the ozone hole and greenhouse gases.”
Jan Lieser of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, said that the increase will not sustain itself. “By 2100 we will see dramatic reductions,” she said, according to the publication. “Once it goes belly-up it’s not good for the rest of the world.”
From Mike above:
…global warming is the cause of both the Arctic’s sea ice decrease and Antarctica’s sea ice increase.
That about says it all, doesn’t it? Global warming causes everything bad; nothing good. Send money.
And here’s a little gif, showing NH seasonal ice changes. [Give it a few seconds to load]
Just like no one takes each breath exactly the same way, year-over-year ice cover varies. It’s natural climate variability. There is nothing to be concerned about. Send money anyway. Just to be sure…
BBC ‘Inside Science’ radio programme 2 days ago….
“Shrinking Antarctic sea ice due to climate change affecting penguins”
Margaretville is now in Antarctica. The only difference: Wear a heavy parka and wool socks with those flip flops.
What matters more – Antarctic ice mass or sea ice extent? Mass is mostly very old ice. Compression or volcanoes could melt it at its base, the meltwater going into the sea or maybe the earth.
But Antarctic sea ice growing increases albedo with possible cooling feedback. It can interrupt shipping or even block Cape Horn.
Antarctic sea ice matters. Mass – not so much.
Data contraindicative to global warming has begun to snowball (pun intended). Another colder than normal winter in heavily populated areas, currently forecasted by some, would just about kill any additional governmental policies to reduce carbon dioxide.
In that event, the only way CAGWers can maintain their initiative is to take total control of the narrative. I suspect there will be attempts to drive this blog and others like it off the Internet. The CAGWers will not go gentle into that good night.
Perhaps it is something we should plan for.
Reblogged this on The GOLDEN RULE and commented:
No global warming here!
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
But wait… I thought the polar caps were melting and the cities would flood! I’m confused! Michael Mann… Al Gore… What’s happening? This truth is so inconvenient.
Hello Anthony,
This WUWT article has reached the “portada” (front page) of Meneame (which is kind of the spanish reddit). This is the first time that such a thing happens for any WUWT article. I hope this leads to more people knowing about your site. Congratulations.
http://www.meneame.net/story/nuevo-record-extension-hielo-marino-antartico-supera-20-millones
It’s good to see the record Antarctic sea ice story all over the man stream media. Journalists should be congratulated on their commitment to reporting the truth and for not simply caving in to political/editorial pressure. As I write a whole squadron of flying pigs just passed over my house.
“We’re gonna need a bigger graph.”
Ha! I’m here all week. Try the veal.
Lost in all the hype about Arctic sea ice is the fact we have seen record Arctic sea ice formation over the last 2 decades. The rate of decline of the minimum is more than 3 times greater than the rate of decline of the maximum. Ergo record amounts of sea ice are being formed in the Arctic winter. The increase in winter sea ice formation is similar in both the Arctic and the Antarctic.
The difference is the increase in Arctic summer melt, whereas there is no real change in Antarctic summer melt.
See my comments above about black carbon and aerosols and note both are almost completely absent around Antarctica.
Interesting piece in The Sunday Times yesterday about Arctic Ice cap. Apparently it is all melting away and will be gone shortly. The proof for this is that September 2014 ice is less than the summer average measured for the period from 1991 (if memory serves me right) to 2010.
So measuring the month that comes at the end of the summer against the whole season shows it to have less ice – well who’da thunk?!
And then why exclude 2011, 2012 and 2013…?
Oh how you try to deceive by telling only half the story. What is going on the other pole smartass?
If it’s not normal, then it’s change. Hence the term ” climate change”.
@ur momisugly Truth (Pravda?). You did manage to read the title of this thread I presume, but just to recap it’s about Antarctic sea ice. I think you might have missed that. It’s rather pertinent to the discussion. But as an aside, the climate has always changed, is currently changing, and will continue to do so until the atmosphere boils away into space. The term “Climate Change”, as used by you and your co-religionists, arose simply to obscure the rather disappointing (from your point of view) fact that “Global Warming” failed to happen as required. The name has been changed to protect the guilty.