The arctic ice cap receded a great deal in 2007 because there was a prevailing wind which blew across the pole and into the Norwegian Sea. This meant that even as ice was formed in the winter the entire ice pack was being blown into the Atlantic. Temps in the region were no warmer that year than in previous years (or years since) it was simply a function of the prevailing wind. Since first year ice is weaker than multi-year ice there was a larger decline in the ice pack during the summer of 2008 than the average. In 2009 after a year of recovery the ice pack receded less than average during the summer.
This year the ice pack, so far, is expanding faster than normal.
BTW, while everyone talks about the arctic the antarctic actually contains 90% of the world's ice and has been growing.
This year the ice pack, so far, is expanding faster than normal. BTW, while everyone talks about the arctic the antarctic actually contains 90% of the world's ice and has been growing. Thank you. Your image would fit right in to an Al Gore slide show. The truth is the opposite of the image, so we can't use it.
We need an Arctic image from this Fall and expanding before and after Antarctic images.
Look at it this way. My friends are GW agnostics. They are shown your image and asked to become GW believers. Based on your image alone, it would not be unreasonable to accept the GW hypothesis. Then we give them a verbal explanation about winds blowing ice around and new ice and old ice and the south pack is expanding, but no images of that, and then ask for their vote. How would you react if you possessed only this information?