For the record: Imagine what it would be without the bias.
Pictured: NWS MMTS (Maximum/Minimum Temperature Sensor) surface station (one of MANY similarly biased):
The actual measured Global Average Temperature by satellite for all the earth's regions - seas, swamps, savannahs, deserts, tundra, prairies, farms, forests, ice caps and mountains - was -0.04 for January 2023 (compared to the 2000 baseline temperature.) The rolling 13 month global average temperature at the end of January 2023 was only slightly higher at 0.14 degrees above baseline.
Key words and tricky phrase of the day after 48 years of "Catastrophic Global Warning":
"Today's college students now have never actually faced any global warming in their entire lifetimes." Since global satellite measurements began 44 years ago in late 1978, the actual measured Global Average Temperature has increased 0.45 degrees C.
Less than 1/2 of one degree in 50 years.
Sea ice extent is not a very useful metric, as it is mostly dependent on prevailing wind and ocean currents pushing the ice around on the ocean surface. The implication of course is that this is due to “climate change” but there is no reason to believe this.
Hey, wait a minute. Its summer down there so this must glow-bull mis/dis/mal-information put out by climate deniers.
Undersea volcanoes are the main culprit. Just plug them, problem solved [/S].
All: Now, we can’t really argue about this specific Antarctic Sea Ice Extents (Area went down as well) - The change happened, let us see what happens next.
BUT.
Up north, the Arctic Sea Extents (and Sea Ice Area) also decreased measureably from their measured high in 1982-1983 timeframe down to 2006-2007 timeframe. Yes, there was a definte change from 1983 down to 2006.
But, you see, from 2007 through now 2023 - a full 1/3 of the entire satellite record - there has been NO CHANGE in Arctic Sea Ice Area! (The very slight increase from 2007 to today’s value in 2023 can be either ignored as a statistical insignificance, or can be waved like a red flag in front of the propagandists. Your choice. )
Al Gore finds Arctic Sea Ice to be an Significant Inconvenient Fact.
Oh. By the way. Continued loss of Arctic Sea Ice from today’s area only means more heat energy is lost from the newly exposed 4 degree Arctic Ocean surface to the -35 degree Arctic air over the fall, winter, and spring months than is gained during the very short mid-April to mid-August days when the Arctic sun actually is shining over the Arctic Sea ice.
Antarctic sea ice is much further from the South Pole than is the Arctic Sea Ice from the North Pole. So more sunlight could be available down south during their summer months of Dec-January-February when Antarctic Sea Ice is melted. But the Antarctic Ocean cloud cover is near-100% with many months of daily storms and near-hurricane force winds, so the annual effect is muted.
Sunken: I’ve got some plots and graphics of these trends if you feel they should be posted here.
I like these maps better. We were supposed to be ice free by now. So the “warmers” said 20 years ago.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Global Warming is true, and it is happening fast!
It is in the mid 80s here this afternoon, but it was only in the 60s last night. Proof positive of Global Warming!
Why the switch from Arctic to Antarctic sea ice?
The sea ice index is problematic. I learned of this when I people were surprised that there was massive sea ice coverage when the arctic areas were supposed to be unusually warm:
The sea ice index does NOT measure how much of the sea is covered by solid, unbroken ice. Rather, such indices measure the area of the sea covered by a certain proportion of sea ice. (Not sure if this is a 25% or 10% index.) Anyway, thing is that the warmer it is, the more the ice breaks into pieces and floats away from the permanent ice pack. The colder it is, the more the ice remains in a tight, solidly-frozen area relatively close to the core of the permanent ice pack.
Two other issues rarely mentioned...
In the satellite era, 1979-2023, the average air temperature above the South Polar Region has increased by less than 0.1 C in 44 years!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/27/non-global-warming/
Also, the area of ice that has melted the most has a half dozen or more volcanic regions that cannot be closely studied because they are underneath glacial ice.
They failed to mention the THICKNESS of Antarctic has been setting records for years!
For the record: Imagine what it would be without the bias.
Pictured: NWS MMTS (Maximum/Minimum Temperature Sensor) surface station (one of MANY similarly biased):
It’s worth noting that the NSDIC is reporting that: “MPORTANT NOTICE – DATA OUTAGE: Some images are not being updated by their respective suppliers due to an outage related to the DMSP F17 satellite sensor. “NSIDC has no firm timeline on when it will be able to resume providing the sea ice time series.”
Somehow, they are getting enough data to make this dire report, but not enough for people to check the actual data for accuracy.