I thought that I could find something to contradict that statement, but I was not able to. It looks like there was a 60% increase in Arctic ice.
It really depends on how you measure it. As you can see, the greenies have their own way. It certainly looks as though it is increasing, by any measuring means.
Here are a couple of news blurbs from the past.
Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two. – New York Times - February 20, 1969
The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large-scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages. – New York Times - July 18, 1970
The you see the motive behind these articles.
Quote by Jim Sibbison, environmental journalist, former public relations official for the Environmental Protection Agency: "We routinely wrote scare stories...Our press reports were more or less true...We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment."
So an increase in the ice does not fit the greenie agenda, even it it is the truth. So it must be quashed. Just look at the answers so far. HA! HA!
I have actually seen the dailymail image before. If you will notice the different colours in the images which shows the overall thickness of the ice. If we look at the data we see the following.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/...
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/...
Sea ice extent is roughly equal to it's 2009 extent at this time.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/...
Sea ice volume
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/...
As you can see, while sea ice extent has increased to 2009 levels, sea ice volume continues to decrease. This tells me that the ice is substantially thinner.
The reason for the increase in sea ice extent is, most likely, ocean current changes such as the Arctic Oscillation. If we look at measurements of Arctic sea ice extent we will see much year-to-year variability. This is primarily due to changes in these sorts of ocean currents. It is sad that, no matter how many times people are told, they continue to take one years worth of data and suggest it is indicative of the long term trend.
No it is decreasing and expected to be ice free by 2025. We might have been wrong before but I am with 100% certainty right this time. There will also be a 2 degree C increase in global temperatures by 2050
It looks to me like a 60% decrease in the previous winter's maximum extent.
No the 60% figure is BS like most of the denier folklore Summer sea ice extent is some of the lowest recorded
yes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...
No. OIL COMPANIES STILL THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE!!! BULLSH*T!!
looking at this map (the orange line presumably 2013 extent) it looks to me more like 40%
http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/images/NASA%20Aug.%2026%2C%202012.jpg?1379087987
am I wrong?
