Just case you were wondering what was going on up North:
Arctic sea ice extent appeared to reach its maximum extent for the year on March 7, marking the beginning of the melt season. This year's maximum tied for the lowest in the satellite record -- NSIDC, March 23
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NSIDC has (preliminarily) announced the new record low ice extent for 2012.
On September 16, 2012 sea ice extent dropped to 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles). This appears to have been the lowest extent of the year. In response to the setting sun and falling temperatures,…
The North Polar ice sheet continues to recede, setting yet another record:
Sea ice extent continues to decline, and is now at 4.78 million square kilometers (1.84 million square miles), falling yet further below the record absolute minimum of 5.32 million square kilometers (2.05 million square…
The National Snow & Ice Data Center has declared that the Arctic Sea ice extent has reached its annual minimum and is now starting to expand. I was thinking that it was too early to say this, since in past years what looks like a minimum can sometimes be reversed by some additional melting.…
The good folks at the National Snow and Ice Data Center summarize the season in the Arctic Ocean. Turns out that the weather conditions that helped make 2007 a record for low sea-ice extent didn't recur. And yet, 2011 came within a relative hair's breadth of setting a new record. That means longer-…
Nope not wondering. Most of us have a life, and embrace plant food for what it is. Plant food.
I'm guessing Canyuck is referring to Co2 being 'plant food' and so the rapid changes we're seeing in the arctic and which have been linked to global rising Co2 levels are observations we can just wave away.
If that's right, then it's the winner of today's dumbest comments award. Possibly it'll go on to win all week.
Can a canyuk be that dumb? Oh, sorry, I thought you said Canuck.
BTW the Antarctic ice is nearly half a million sq Kms below the 1979-2008 norm and the total loss, north and south is an area equivalent to one sixth of the area of the United States.
Not that it matters, of course,......
it's the winner of today's dumbest comments award. Possibly it'll go on to win all week.
Canyuck went full retard. Doesn't he know that you never go full retard?
Are there data on thickness? I believe a lot of that ice is only a year or two old. That will make a big difference in how fast and how much of it melts this summer, right?