http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2017/01/global-sea-ice-records-broken-again.html#more
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Sabbatical or not, records must be reported (like I did last year, here and here, albeit a month later).
According to NSIDC data, the Global sea ice area record for lowest minimum has just been broken, as shown on this Wipneus graph (world famous now because of what happened after September
last year; see the dark red line on the right side of the graph which should be fairly easily to spot):
http://neven1.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f03a1e37970b01b7c8c7f9f4970b-pi
The Sea Ice Extent metric is about to break the record as well. Remember, the ice extent is defined as the area of sea covered by at least 15% ice. Area and extent are closely related, but the extent curves are usually published because the data is less noisy
http://neven1.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f03a1e37970b01b7c8c7fa74970b-800wi
For those who still think that man-made global warming poses no risk whatsoever, that it is a hoax, I’m just going to repeat what I wrote last year:
This measure doesn’t tell us all that much about the health of either Arctic or Antarctic regions, if only because the seasons move in opposite directions (nevertheless, the Global sea ice trend is down). It’s just an interesting statistical factoid.
However, climate risk deniers often use the Global sea ice metric as an argument that nothing is wrong and AGW is a hoax. In other words, the recent growth in Antarctic sea ice offsets the loss of Arctic sea ice (it doesn’t), even though the poles are literally worlds apart and are pretty much incomparable (except for the sea ice bit).
Using this logic, it would seem that this new record minimum means there is something wrong with sea ice and AGW isn’t a hoax. I wonder how they will spin this one. If they report it to their loyal readers, that is.
Of course, they didn’t report it to their readers. And they won’t report this second record in a row either. They will remain quiet about this, as they always are, as if sea ice is not an integral part of this planet and its functioning.
Ask yourself why that is, what that means and whether you can trust anything they say. Be skeptical and do the right thing. Don’t get swindled and then swindle others.