Arctic Ice Growth Blows Away All Records

[darkbeaver]

Arctic Ice Growth Blows Away All Records

Posted on February 2, 2013 by stevengoddard

arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008
Arctic ice area has increased by 10.5 million km^2 since mid-September 2012.
The press corpse continues to report this event as record ice loss. Leading experts say that the Arctic will be ice-free in a few months, or sooner.


DBI wonder if some inquest might be undertaken to delve into the actual reliability and utility of science in general at this time, near the end of ice. Recommending toothpaste and vaccines is one order of things the climate and weather forecasting might best be left to bone casting savages and gut reading barbarians. It is quite common among that scientific lot to have completed grade twelve you know. How could it have come to this?DB

 

[petros]

the climate and weather forecasting might best be left to bone casting savages and gut reading barbarians. It is quite common among that scientific lot to have completed grade twelve you know. How could it have come to this?DB

$$$$$

 

[L Gilbert]

Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

Damn cold here the past couple days.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

What's significant is the size of the permanent ice pack in the Arctic, not the seasonal growth of temporary ice cover in the winter, that's thin stuff that disappears fairly quickly in the summer and the permanent cover continues to shrink. It's the difference between weather and climate, which global warming deniers frequently make a point of confusing.

 

[taxslave]

The "experts" computer modeling to predict the future reminds me of an engineer a long time ago that came to look at our water system. It is several K long and serves about 140 houses , built by my father and uncle to serve their properties and sawmill. Any way he took out his slide rule and calculated that with the distance and diameter of pipe and resistance to flow no water could come out the lower end. But he wouldn't stand in front of the tap to prove his point. It has about 40 PSI.

 

[L Gilbert]

What's significant is the size of the permanent ice pack in the Arctic, not the seasonal growth of temporary ice cover in the winter, that's thin stuff that disappears fairly quickly in the summer and the permanent cover continues to shrink. It's the difference between weather and climate, which global warming deniers frequently make a point of confusing.

Volume "speaks louder" than area, too.

The "experts" computer modeling to predict the future reminds me of an engineer a long time ago that came to look at our water system. It is several K long and serves about 140 houses , built by my father and uncle to serve their properties and sawmill. Any way he took out his slide rule and calculated that with the distance and diameter of pipe and resistance to flow no water could come out the lower end.

He missed something then.