New all-time satellite-era record for Antarctic sea ice extent

wattsupwiththat.com ^ | September 13, 2014 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Antarctic Sea Ice Extent on Sept 13 2014 may have set a  new all time record (at least for the satellite era, we don’t have data prior to that).

Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent With Anomaly

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – Click the pic to view at source

Sunshine hours writes: Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 13 2014 – 1,121,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 255. Data here.

Breaking the record set in 2013 by 48,000 sq km.

Source: http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/antarctic-sea-ice-extent-sept-13-2014-new-all-time-record

[BwanaNdege]

[17th Miss Regt]

All that white area! This is just another racial attack on The Black Man in the White House (TM)!

[logi_cal869]

“Settled science”...what a joke.

‘They’ can’t even figure out what a healthy food pyramid looks like after 5 generations.

Of course, they’ll come up with something to discredit this...

[BwanaNdege]

Is that better?

[Sacajaweau]

What’s this mean sh**. It’s a progression. There is no mean.

[Jack Hammer]

Must be due to Global Warming.

Uh, no, wait - it’s due to Global Cooling.

No, make that Acid Rain.

Er, Overpopulation?

Never mind - give us a huge grant for the next twenty years and we’ll figure it all out for you.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Looks like it’s north of the southern tip of South America. If it was shifted over a little, you could walk from South America to the South Pole.

[ThunderSleeps]

So it set a record last year, and again this year. Two record setting years in a row. Yeah, must be global warming .

[Straight Vermonter]

No, make that Acid Rain.

Remember acid rain? We were supposed to have denuded mountains by now here in the northeast.

[Straight Vermonter]

Looks like it’s north of the southern tip of South America. If it was shifted over a little, you could walk from South America to the South Pole.

Yes, it looks like it is approaching South Georgia.

[Ben Ficklin]

"we'll figure it out for you"

I think the conclusion that I read somewhere was that land ice is putting more fresh water into the sea, which lowers the salinity, and makes it easier to freeze.

[NormsRevenge]

Cool, Spectrograph lives.. Nice colors!

[Starboard]

Good point. Another hoax of the left. And what happened to the increasing hurricane threat that they warned about only a few years ago?

[TruthWillWin]

You forgot to mention the ozone hole.

[dhs12345]

You forgot cow farts.

[Ben Ficklin]

"And what happened to the increasing hurricane threat"

They have been in the Pacific. 16 hurricanes and tropical storms thus far in 2014.

2014 Pacific Hurricane Season

[justa-hairyape]

The Pacific Ocean is huge. Always has hurricanes. The Atlantic is much smaller and a better indicator for hurricane inducing conditions IMHO. And of course they continue to over hype any cane nowadays.

[gorush]

There is a mean...but it is only useful in mathematical discussions. Meaningless on a daily scale.

[Qout]

The reason for the record sea ice is because the oceans are warming. The warmer the oceans, the more the sea ice. It's settled science. Don't let the actual data fool you. Who needs data when you have consensus?