Plus notes on the ARCUS sea ice forecasting contest As I pointed out on September 16th in Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Arctic this year…
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Sea Ice News Volume 4 Number 5: No ice free Arctic this year – it appears that Arctic sea ice has turned the corner
It looks like the Maslowski Countdown has ended early and there will be no “ice free Arctic” as predicted this year. From NSIDC, which has a 5 day average in…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 number 4 – The Maslowski Countdown to an 'ice-free Arctic' begins
A grand experiment is being conducted in the Arctic this year that may not only falsify a prediction made in 2007, but may also further distance a connection between Arctic…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 #3 – 2013 Sea Ice Forecast Contest
We are closing on the Arctic sea ice minimum. Will it be another Serreze death spiral media opportunity? Or will it be ho-hum- nothing to see here, move along? Once…
Observations From The WUWT Sea Ice Page
Image Credit: Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – Polar Research Group By WUWT Regular Just The Facts Global Sea Ice Area, shown above, has remained quite average this year.…
Al Gore's "Reality Minions" think the North Pole is melting – except that's NOT a photo of the North Pole
Even journalists get tripped up into thinking this is photo from the North Pole. At the real North Pole, history shows this to be a relatively common occurrence. It isn’t…
Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is the Better Climate Change Indicator
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Global warming theory predicts that rising levels of CO2 will gradually warm the air and…
Sea Ice News Volume 4 #2 – The 2013 Sea Ice Forecast Contest
The race to forecast the minimum is on again. Will it be another Serreze death spiral media opportunity? Or will it be ho-hum- nothing to see here, move along? Once…
Sea Ice News: Volume 4 #1 – Arctic Ice gain sets a new record
From the Nature abhors a vacuum department comes this note from RealScience showing that Arctic sea ice has made a stunning rebound since the record low recorded in the late…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 #15 – Arctic sea ice doubles in October
In Sea Ice News #14, we noted that the Arctic refreeze was the fastest ever. According to NSIDC, Arctic sea ice extent doubled in October. Arctic rapidly gaining winter ice…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 14 – Arctic refreeze fastest ever
After all of the news about a minimum record ice extent last month, this is interesting. As we know when water loses its ice cover, it allows a lot of…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 number 13 – 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum reached, it's all gain from here
I’ve been watching the JAXA sea ice data on the WUWT sea ice page intently for the last few days. Click to enlarge. I was ready to call the minimum…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 number 12 – has Arctic sea ice started to turn the corner?
Nothing definitive, but interesting. The area plot above is from NANSEN. The extent plot also shows a turn:
Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 11, part 1 – new Arctic satellite extent record
PART1 – (part 2 comes later today is NOW ONLINE HERE) I’ve been noting with some humor the anticipation of a new Arctic sea ice extent minimum in the Alarmosphere.…
Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 10 – ARCUS August Sea Ice Outlook posted, plus worries over Arctic storm breaking up sea ice
In the latest ARCUS Sea Ice Outlook, WUWT, Stroeve (NSIDC), and Meier (NSIDC) agree at 4.5 million square km. Whether those values turn out to be high due to the…
Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 9
I don’t have much time for a detailed post, a number of people want to discuss sea ice, so here is your chance. We also need to update the ARCUS…
Sea Ice News – Volume 3 Number 8 – meltwater hues, or blues?
WUWT commenter Caleb writes on 2012/07/20 at 7:53 am Check out the “North Pole Camera” on the WUWT “Sea Ice Page.” Both Camera #1 and Camera #2 show lovely summer…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 7 – The next ARCUS Sea Ice Outlook forecasting poll for 2012 is online
NOTE: Poll closes at 12PM PST, Thursday, July 5th. First, in case you missed it over the weekend, the WUWT Sea Ice page has gone through an upgrade. A number…
WUWT Sea Ice Page Upgrades and Northern Regional Sea Ice Overview
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” We are pleased to introduce an array of upgrades to the WUWT Sea Ice Page, including: Arctic Sea Ice Thickness: From the Naval Research…
Sea Ice News: NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier on this Arctic ice season
Guest post by Dr. Walt Meier, National Snow and Ice Data Center Winds, Temperatures, and Arctic Sea Ice Extent As the summer sea ice melt season gets into high gear,…
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