They say a picture is worth a thousand words right? Depending on what you are trying to present, that picture can make or break any presentation. So it was with…
Category: Sea ice
Ice Reality Check: Arctic Ice Now 31.3% Over Last Year, plus Scientists Counter Latest Arctic 'Record' Warmth Claims as 'Pseudoscience'
10/17/2007 5,663,125 square kilometers 10/17/2008 7,436,406 square kilometers Δice = 1,773,281 sqkm or 31.3% more than last year Source data here: http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv (Excel file) UPDATE 10/22: The trend has entered…
NSIDC's Dr. Walt Meier answers reader questions on sea ice
From Steve Goddard: Thanks again to Dr. Meier from NSIDC for answering questions, and for offering to do a follow-up. From Anthony: Responses from Dr. Meier are in italics. I’ve…
Arctic sea ice now 28.7% higher than this date last year – still rallying
10/14/2008 7,064,219 square kilometers 10/14/2007 5,487,656 square kilometers A difference of: 1,576,563 square kilometers, now in fairness, 2008 was a leap year, so to avoid that criticism, the value of 6,857,188…
Arctic sea ice continues to rebound, quick link graphic added
I’ve been so impressed with the recovery thus far for Arctic sea ice, I’ve added a live icon for it in the lower right under the global satellite image. Just…
Sea ice extent recovering quickly
As many readers know, the predictions for record low sea ice minimums in 2008 were not met, and 2008 ended up about 9% higher than in 2007 at the end…
Winds are Dominant Cause of Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Losses
From Climate Research News Two new studies summarized in a news article in Science magazine point to wind-induced circulation changes in the ocean as the dominant cause of the recent ice losses…
NSIDC' s Dr. Walt Meier Answers 10 Questions
Regular readers may recall some of the posts here, here, here, and here, where the sea ice data presented by NSIDC and by Cryosphere today were brought into question. We…
Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Officially Over; ice up over 9% from last year
We have news from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). They say: The melt is over. And we’ve added 9.4% ice coverage from this time last year. Though…
Polar Defense Project Deletes The Tough Questions
You may be familiar with the much ballyhooed “Polar Defense Project” which aimed to get two kayakers into the arctic sea as far north as possible. While it’s difficult to…
Adventures in Arctic Kayaking – Update: we're stuck
UPDATE: kayakers already “stuck” in ice at 80.52397 degrees N I had this post up for all of an hour before this news rolled in from PolarDefense. Hat tips to…
Arctic Ice Extent Discrepancy: NSIDC versus Cryosphere Today
Foreword: I had originally planned to post a story on this, but Steven Goddard of the UK Register sends word that he has already done a comparison. It mirrors much…
NASA Sees Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face
NOTE: You may recall a story I posted some months ago titled: “NASA: It’s the wind” regarding Arctic wind circulation patterns and the way it drove sea ice further south…
When Graphs Attack!
Yesterday I showed satellite imagery of the North Pole and areas into northern Canada. It was still quite icebound. Today I offer this graph from the National Snow and Ice…
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