The sudden uptick could be due to a big snowstorm covering the water with slush that is detected as ice.
I blame the metric system.
They’re still on dialup.
Since the only large sea ice measurements started in 1979 with proper weather satellites, who knows. This may be a normal cyclical thing. Of course the global warming crowd will claim otherwise even in the absence of actual long term data over hundreds of years.
Still waiting for a serious reply . . .
It’s mirroring the election - Trump has turned it all upside down.
On average it appears to be balanced...
If this keeps up...we should be worried about the Earth toppling over.
so it took a trip.
Just a guess, but maybe they’ve been fudging their data to show the opposite for some years, and now it is clear they have to get back to reality.
Probably a correction. They’ve been pimping Global Warming for so long that the difference between reality and their lies has caused a large one time correction. They probably hoped that no one would notice.
Pole reversal underway.
Fracking?
Rush Limbaugh?
Christians?
The Koch Brothers?
Fox News?
Whitey?
The NRA?
Okay, I give up.
Did you by chance see the note in red. At the link?
It’s disappointing to get so many flippant responses to my question. I’m not touting any particular explanation of this data, but if you go to the website and look at the charts, what’s happening seems bizarre.
The sudden uptick could be due to a big snowstorm covering the water with slush that is detected as ice.
It says the problem right on the site
Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder (SSMIS) on the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-17 satellite that provides passive microwave brightness temperatures (and derived Arctic and Antarctic sea ice products) has been providing spurious data since beginning of April. Working on resolving problem or replacing this data source.
Or in other words, the Satellite is broke
I would question whether the spurious data only started last month. If you know you are getting bad data now (or at least data you don't want to believe), how do you know you weren't getting bad data all along?
I have no idea if it is at all related but we are supposed to be in the process of El Nino changing to La Nina weather cycles. This has been a strong El Nino, which is why last winter the NE had a warm winter at the same time it was snowing in El Paso and other parts of the SW.
I think El Nino is supposed to be here in the Fall but takes a little while for the switch.
I am not a weather person but for us El Nino means generally cooler and wetter and La Nina means generally warmer and dryer.
I am almost certain this explained in the movie The Day After Tomorrow.
In your posting comments you say this is “unprecedented, in my experience”. You have experience with ice cap data or watching the data? If you do then why would should anyone here has more or better experience than you? Now if you would provide some data analysis instead using words like “weird” and “experience” maybe we could take you seriously.
Or should we all just be concerned like you about what is probably either questionable or down right fraudulent data to start with?