By Kenneth Richard on 7. July 2022
A new study (Gupta et al., 2022) indicates that from 2000-2019 73% of the 15 sites considered have been cooling and 67% have experienced a lengthening of sea ice duration.
Canada’s Hudson Bay extends into the Arctic Ocean and its coasts are teeming with polar bears.
Scientists report 11 of 15 Hudson Bay sites have been cooling since 2000. The average cooling for these 11 sites is -0.34°C per decade.
Image Source: Gupta et al., 2022
Cooling °C per decade, 2000-2019
Chesterfield Inlet: -0.25°C
Cape Tatnum: -0.3°C
Fort Severn: -0.5°C
Peawanuck: -0.5°C
Attawapiskat: -0.3°C
Chisasibi: -0.3°C
Sanikiluaq: -0.15°C
Inukjuak: -0.4°C
Akulivik: -0.4°C
Ivujivik: -0.45°C
Coral Harbor: -0.65°C
There are 4 sites that have been warming since 2000, averaging 0.24°C per decade combined.
Warming °C per decade, 2000-2019
Rankin Inlet: 0.2°C
Arviat: 0.4°C
Churchill: 0.15°C
Moosonee: 0.2°C
All 15 sites combined suggest an overall cooling trend of -0.183°C per decade, or -0.35°C, from 2000-2019 for this region.
Of the 11 cooling sites, 10 experienced an expansion of sea ice duration (earlier freeze-ups and/or later break-ups) over the 19-year period.
“The interannual trends in fast ice duration over the 2000–2019 period (Figure 2d) show that the fast-ice duration along the west coast of Hudson Bay has been decreasing at a rate of 1–6 days per decade. All other locations across Hudson Bay and James Bay, with the exception of Moosonee, have experienced increasing fast-ice duration. This increase has been particularly notable in Sanikiluaq and Chisasibi, where fast-ice duration increased at 9 and 6 days per decade, respectively.”
Reading the comments it seems some say the piece is good due its content showing the truth on warming then we read the pragmatic Richard green who rightly says it does nt counter the narrative being portrayed in msm and by politicians.
Both sides are correct .
There needs to be a strategy In acted by realists that can counter the prevailing narrative globally .
I believe a lot of people have not swallowed the agw narrative completely.
Richard is correct but if stories like this could only make out into the main stream then it would oppose the little numerous stories that back up the alarmists like local heatwaves , Fire first fires etc .
Muse their own tactic against them .
Unfortunately before anyone says it the media won t allow .
we need to find a way to carry the message so that it can reach a much bigger attendance .
I believe the above story is a piece in Richard s jig saw to oppose the alarmists .
Lots of clever people here and elsewhere like to discredit me as an alarmist or a warmista.
I would say the originators of all these compliments are all coolistas 🙂
Do we really need such a TricksZone ‘article’ to get convinced that the Arctic is cooling since a while?
Better is to look at the GHCN daily data, which probably is the rawest surface station data available.
1) Warming
Of course: the Arctic is warming, ant that a lot quicker than the rest:
Trends in °C / decade
2) Cooling
But, but… at the end of the chart we see the plots falling down a lot, and zooming into 2000-2022 gives
with as trends
and, of course, since 2016 shows the highest values since 1981,
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Make the best of it!
It is the first time the Arctic region has cooled since the mid 1970’s. (that is a big deal)
Could it be a temporary blip or is it a new trend?
My previous post has already described that the Arctic will be the first place to show a new trend.
I would believe it is a NEW TREND and this is just the start.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-11046-x
The Arctic will continue to cool when the AMO increasingly moves towards its negative phase expected to properly kick in around the end of this decade/start of next decade. (~2029-2033)
Obvious question – is there any human activity that might have caused the warming at the 4 sites?