Rapidly disappearing Arctic sea ice is about to set a new record after an “absurdly warm” winter at the top of the world. For the second year running, it will have grown to cover less of the Arctic Ocean than ever before.
The revelation comes as scientists are increasingly worried that the heating of the region could escalate out of control, as growing numbers of “feedback mechanisms” – which reinforce and accelerate the process – are being discovered.
Most attention on the melting sea ice so far has been focused on the increasingly low minimum levels it reaches each September. Its nine smallest-ever extents have all occurred in the last nine years, with the record being reached in 2012, when it covered only 3.41 million square kilometres – 44 per cent less than the average of the previous three decades, and a full 16 per cent lower than the previous record, in 2007.
But the amount by which the ice recovers each winter, peaking at the end of February and the beginning of March, though little publicised, is at least as important. Last year it reached only 14.54 million sq km on 25 February, its peak day – the lowest ever. Exactly a year later, at the end of last week, it was just 14.27 million sq km, a fall of 270,000 sq km.
Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Boulder, Colorado (NSIDC) – the world’s foremost authority on the issue – are not quite ready to proclaim a new record, as the ice may yet spread further over the next days. But, with another week of unseasonably warm weather forecast for the region, they privately believe it is almost certain.
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THEN EVER BEFORE ? Hyperbole much ?
Aside from loonie50’s ongoing display of his communication and grammar difficulties, which is getting to be quite “over the top”, there is no hyperbole involved in this post.
I suspect that his math and graph reading skills are no better than his English, or he’d be able to figure out the “IF-THEN” here—-IF the ice hits a record low, THEN it is covering less of the Arctic Ocean THAN ever before.
My guess is he didn’t read beyond the first paragraph.
Mind the Russian trolls.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQfnKzEvmuY&w=640&h=390]
Sorry, but all we get is “The uploader has not made this video available in your country”
Is this the same one from youtube?
https://youtu.be/pxFrPNXTSdo
Yes it is. I’m having no trouble seeing either clip – & I’m from Oz.
No. Probably not hyperbole enough really given the length of time we’re talking here.
Latest book and documentary.
‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzpPXuASY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzpPXuASY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO08Hhjes_0
http://www.drtimball.com
Debate between Dr Tim Ball and Elizabeth May
Scroll down to Ian Jessop part 1
http://www.cfax1070.com/Podcasts
Tim Ball is a well known Exxon funded Denialist who has been suied fro libel – see
http://www.desmogblog.com/timothy-f-ball-tim-ball
Those are very long youtube clips. Please can you summarise the main point Ball is arguing in them briefly?