This weather satellite fight between the USAF and NASA has been going on since the early 1960’s. NASA is given the lead on satellite development but never delivers so the USAF does it. It has only gotten worse since then.
What was a 1 meter cubed small and light satellite has become a 23 foot long 3 ton monster under NASA demands.
“”It’s not an issue of funding cuts,” says Mark Serreze,”
Mark Serreze said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2030. Oh No only 5 years left! minimum was in 2012.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/jul/11/arctic-ice-free
“In the past 10 days, the Arctic ocean has been losing as much as 150,000 square kilometres of sea a day, said Mark Serreze, director of the NSIDC.
“The extent [of the ice cover] is going down, but it is also thinning. So a weather pattern that formerly would melt some ice, now gets rid of much more. There will be ups and downs, but we are on track to see an ice-free summer by 2030. It is an overall downward spiral.”