Here's what things looked like two days ago, from Cryosphere Today:
Posted on 09/03/2008 12:08:28 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage Michael Asher (Blog) - September 3, 2008 2:44 PM
Increase twice the size of Germany: "colder weather" to blame.
Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has indicated a dramatic increase in sea ice extent in the Arctic regions. The growth over the past year covers an area of 700,000 square kilometers: an amount twice the size the nation of Germany.
With the Arctic melting season over for 2008, ice cover will continue to increase until melting begins anew next spring.
The data is for August 2008 and indicates a total sea ice area of six million square kilometers. Ice extent for the same month in 2007 covered 5.3 million square kilometers, a historic low. Earlier this year, media accounts were rife with predictions that this year would again see a new record. Instead, the Arctic has seen a gain of about thirteen percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
SEE? SEE? GLOBAL WARMING IN GOING TO CAUSE ANOTHER ICE AGE!!!
Damn. What am I going to do with all these carbon credits?
Quick, write a doctoral dissertation about this!
I don’t understand. Digg has all these articles on the new northwest passage - where one can jump in and swim cuz it’s so warm. They wouldn’t lie, would they?
Nahhhhhhhhh
Nobody tell Al Gore. He might go on another eating binge and gain 75 lbs. more again.
Hold on to them for now. When this global cooling stops and global warming returns, say about 10 months, the credits will recover their original value and more! Remember, don’t panic! Carbon credits have never been worth nothing.
This must be a lie, I just saw a thread on the FACT that this has been the warmest decade in 13,000 years!
This can’t be, where is my parka, I may need it in Wilmington NC.
Justice!
I’ve been saying this since Gore began bloviating about Global Warming and Climate Change. Ice melts, water freezes. Ice comes and goes seasonally. Even 40 years of measurement is a blink of an eye in the earth’s history. The Vikings were growing row crops and raising livestock outdoors on Greenland’s west coast in the 11th century. That type of farming is impossible there today.
Warmer temps cause more ice? Who’da knowed it?
It’s worse than that. The latest Mars Lander has sent-back pictures of rusted SUVs protruding from the Martian soil...
But how can this be? We just saw stories a few days ago about 12 polar bears swimming in the open ocea because there was no ice. Could it be that someone was not telling the truth?
“Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record
By DAN JOLING – Aug 27, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5io8-mhR216BbP-65r8IrK1C6y8ZQD92QGBC00
someone is full of sh#t. With the cooling trend since 2000 and low Solar constant I’m thinking it’s the AP.....
I like the part where they just gloss over the extended cooling in the antarctic.
Don’t you know that the North Pole is where we measure climate change— not the south pole?
You need to be an advanced scientist to understand why this is.
Wrote you comment then thought better. You beat me to it.
I beginning to think give the liberal press all the air time they want. Good ole American commons sense will kick in eventually and bankrupt this Bull S.
But that can’t be true al, the inventor of the internet and snakeoil salesman, is telling the people that the world is melting and we need to suffer those result we brought upon ourselve, well except for himself that is.
Little known fact: Sarah Palin leaves Alaska for St. Paul. Artic starts to freeze back from it’s Palin induced melt.
That's because the Vikings starting driving all those Volvos. Oh wait, the Vikings didn't have Volvos. Nevermind.....
Great. Now all those swimming polar bears are going to get frozen over. Bush’s fault!!!
Pssst. It's called Climate Change dummy, not Global Warming.
Somebody tell him to stop buying so many carbon credits. He's overdoing things as usual.
I guess the ice needs some Lebensraum
The same issue (Sept 3) also carries this story: “ New Climate Study Indicates Hottest Decade in 1,300 Years”. WTF?
Next to the old refrigerator , I bet.
Onset of the Gore Minimum.
It could well be. We’ll know a lot more a year from now...
Sell them to some envirowhacko.
I thought two weeks ago all the ice everywhere was about half gone, the rest had huge cracks in it and the eskimos were handing out coronas and sun screen to the hunters who came for the few remaining polar bears and baby seals.
Start breathing more.
And start investing in natural gas companies. Big time.
CooL!!! refreezing started 2 week earlier than it did last year!!!!
http://nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaiceminimum/images/20071001_timeseries.png
Nein! Othervise the ice vould have driven osten into the Ukraine und taken alles ob die lebensraum it needed von den slavic untermenschen...
Weren’t the poor polar bears swimming scores of miles last week because there was no ice in the Arctic?
Also, if this freezing keeps up, can we have our lightbulbs back?
Still way below average (see pink line). It will take a couple more years to get the lost multi year ice back.
Now we know they were just swimming away from Wasilla before Sarah Palin bagged them.
Update 9:15 am MT August 27: Arctic sea ice extent on August 26 was 5.26 million square kilometers (2.03 million square miles), a decline of 2.06 million square kilometers (795,000 square miles) since the beginning of the month. Extent is now within 430,000 square kilometers (166,000 square miles) of last year's value on the same date and is 1.97 million square kilometers (760,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average.
Furthermore, it says the melt season still has several weeks to go. Compare that to what the article says:
"With the Arctic melting season over for 2008, ice cover will continue to increase until melting begins anew next spring. ... The data is for August 2008 and indicates a total sea ice area of six million square kilometers. Ice extent for the same month in 2007 covered 5.3 million square kilometers, a historic low.
Even though his numbers make no sense, he's quoting a difference of 0.7 million square km between this year and last year, while NSIDC is stating a difference of 0.43 million square km between this year and last year, this year having more ice than last year. It looks like some sort of monthly averaging vs. daily value discrepancy, but it isn't clear.
Here's what things looked like two days ago, from Cryosphere Today:
ClimateAudit has a thread following daily developments for Arctic sea ice extent. Post 252 indicates that the difference is only 0.344 million square km two days ago. Post 273 puts it at 0.38 million square km yesterday.
So, to summarize: the article was a bit premature. Looks like the ice won't melt quite as much as last year. But not by much.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
But, not one word of this reported ANYWHERE in the MSM!
Not even on FOX News.
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