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Nares Strait in the Arctic, Pine Island Glacier in the Antarctic calving a berg that's huge. We are so used to seeing just how low we can go; I for one would like to see a slowing of the momentum of ice melt. I found this blog from a commenter at Daily Kos in August, 2012 and have a great respect for all who contribute here.
Nares Express is ready to leave
Title and image both stolen from Espen on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum: Nares Strait is an old favourite on the Arctic Sea Ice blog, because every year it's a surprise when the ice arch/bridge - preventing ice transport from the Lincoln Sea towards Baffin Bay - is going to collapse. This year it ...
I only wish every one in the US (world for that matter) could see this. Stunning and awesome in its sheer simplicity.
Ice cube volume video
Andy Lee Robinson fired up his super computer to produce the video below, and during rendering composed the soundtrack to go with it: I think it's his best one so far.
Chris R. I agree that the powers that be (especially in the US) have already decided that geoengineering is the way to go; at least that is the very curious answer that P. Obama hinted at in his first press conference post election.
Climate Dialogue, a new depolarizing initiative
Following the Climategate non-scandal some Dutch politicians deemed it necessary for skeptics to have a more prominent say in matters, regardless of merit or reputation. Out of this evolved an initiative called Climate Dialogue. As the editors of Climate Dialogue write in this guest blog post ...
Gee, I sure picked the right year to watch records come tumbling down. Now I get to watch the refreeze.
Record dominoes 12: CT SIA anomaly
The last record left this year has finally been broken (see them all on this page). Never since records began, has there been a larger anomaly from the 1979-2008 baseline in the Cryosphere Today sea ice area data set, as calculated by the Polar Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urb...
Thanks to all for helping with the acronyms. And thanks for not making me feel like a really stupid person.
More vids
I'm pretty sure someone mentioned these while I was away in slowinternetistan, but the visuals are so stunning that I'm posting them two weeks later. These videos, uploaded to YouTube by noiv, were shot by folks on one of the helicopters of the Polarstern research icebreaker. I don't know when ...
Bruce, Wayne, Conrad,
Thank you for your valuable input. And Conrad, I am still trying to figure all those acronyms; although when I do finally figure them out I think(hah) that I am just 1% smarter. And yes, it took me a while to figure out NH.
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I'm pretty sure someone mentioned these while I was away in slowinternetistan, but the visuals are so stunning that I'm posting them two weeks later. These videos, uploaded to YouTube by noiv, were shot by folks on one of the helicopters of the Polarstern research icebreaker. I don't know when ...
As a newbie here I ask a question that I hope is not too dumb. I would hazard a guess that first year ice (I guess that is FYI) is not as thick as multi year ice, thus making it easier to melt and get mushed up in the arctic storms. So my question(s) is: Did the little bit of rebound in years 2008-2011 due to the multiyear ice left in the refreeze season, or was it the weather that caused what little rebound it had? And, is it possible to see the same rebound the next few years?
More vids
I'm pretty sure someone mentioned these while I was away in slowinternetistan, but the visuals are so stunning that I'm posting them two weeks later. These videos, uploaded to YouTube by noiv, were shot by folks on one of the helicopters of the Polarstern research icebreaker. I don't know when ...
"There is pretty good coverage of this topic here in Europe, is it really the case that most US Americans don't know that the Arctic ice has hit a record low this summer?"
The media here in the US are starting to cover the minimum sea ice story now that the new record is here. As you see in the CBS minute there are even pieces that don't have the "he said/she said" equivalency that has been part and parcel of media coverage so far. However there are too many people in this country that believe Jesus rode the dinosaurs or that an ice free arctic means more oil and gas to burn. What is worse is that no politician in this country (US) wants to buck the "big boys" of the fossil fuel industry.
By the way, I am a "newbie" since I only started watching this blog since the great arctic cyclone of 2012 in August and most of the posters on this site have taught me so much and I am grateful for that; and kudos to Neven for such a wonderful site.
(not so) Cool vids
The melting season has come to an end (more on that tomorrow in a new ASI update) and so all kinds of cool graphs, images and videos make the rounds. Unfortunately what is going on in the Arctic isn't so cool, otherwise it'd be more fun. The awe-inspiring shattering of records and the seriousnes...
Pretty sucky, Neven, to see such drivel about the arctic sea ice. These people are not going to go anywhere soon. Take your well deserved holiday and come back recharged.
Similar melts from 1938-43?
I'm supposed to be on a holiday and should let this one slide, but it's too much. I was expecting fake skeptics to remain mostly silent in face of the ice massacre up north, but apparently they acutely sense how big this blow is to the remaining shred of their credibility, and so they upped the ...
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