Posted on 12/12/2007 9:39:24 AM PST by america4vr
The record melting of Arctic sea ice observed this summer and fall led to record-low levels of ice in both September and October, but a record-setting pace of re-freezing in November, according to the NASA Earth Observatory. Some 58,000 square miles of ice formed per day for 10 days in late October and early November, a new record.
Still, the extent of sea ice recorded in November was well shy of the median extent observed over the past quarter century, as the image from Nov. 14 (above, right) shows. The dramatic increase in ice is evident, when compared to the record-low amount observed Sept. 16 (below, right). In both images, 100% sea ice is shown in white, and the yellow line encompasses the area ion which there was at least 15% ice cover in at least half of the 25-year record for the given month.
The record melting of Arctic sea ice this summer was widely viewed as a harbinger of global warming, though unusual wind patterns played a role and many factors affecting fluctuations in Arctic ice are poorly understood by scientists. The area of persistent open water north of Alaska and eastern Siberia, according to NASA, is unusual for this time of year, though not unprecedented. This area was also largely free of ice in November 2002 and especially November 2006.
Here's how NASA explains the record re-growth of ice over that 10-day period in October and November:
Record sea ice growth rates after a record low may sound surprising at first, but it is not completely unexpected. The more ice that survives the summer melt, the less open water there is for new ice to grow.
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I just read an article showing the rapid decline of ice in Greenland. How can this be, the sky is falling!!!
Duh.
In the spring they will start having fits about global warming again (Just like Algore blaming the spring flood of the Red River of the North on "Global Warming").
Not likely; who then could they extort?
By the end of next week, it will be summer in the south.
The Global Cooling crowd, of course.
RE: “I just read an article showing the rapid decline of ice in Greenland”
Don’t you know the Vikings called it “GREENland” because it was covered in ice? s/o
Time is runnning out, all right, as more people are realizing the whole scam is based on bunk and just another excuse to rip them off (rights, vehicles, money, etc).
You can fool some of the people some of the time...
Very clever. :-)
Is that screen capture from Vista?
Bump for later.
We are having a sever case of gore bull warming here in Texas today. 43º and falling for the rest of the day.
You are taking all the fun out of it. Careful presentation of thorough statistical analysis of infinitesimally small data samples, carefully screened, will support virtually any hypothesis.
For those suggesting we replace oil with solar power, it would be wise to also remind them that it gets brighter in the daytime and darker in the evenings.
-PJ
If you put a 10 inch & a twelve inch pan of water in the freezer, the larger pan will have a larger surface of ice.
I keep looking to see when the global warming is going to start falling.
No... Firefox in XP.
I disagree.
These people are far from ignorant.
They are producing a product for a demonstrated customer base.
They know how to write a grant proposal and how to produce a research report that will get them a follow up grant renewal.
The problem is the government that funds gunk science.
Well, of course. everyone knows that. The Vikings just lived there and called in green because they were environmentalists.
I tracked every pass that satellite made during the hours of 8:00am and 4:00pm, Mon-Fri as it came over Monterey, Calif. from the Met Lab at the US Navy Postgraduate School.
We had a receiver with an antenna on the roof of a nearby building; inside the lobby of our station we had the equipment placed and plotted a tracking map from NWS data on the days we were to record the path.
Our equipment could only be described as crude and required quite accurate pre-placement of the antenna, careful adjustment based on audio and oscilloscope gain to catch the very first signals and then to track the entire horizon to horizon sweep.
For a recorder, we had borrowed a Wollensak 4-track tape deck from the audio/visual department that was normally used for taping lectures.
The printer was a thermofax machine that used 10” paper rolls that were geared to advance at the rate of about 100 rasters per minute giving us rather sharp detail.
We used headphones to catch the radio signal as soon as it crossed the horizon, adjusted the tracking antenna to pinpoint the bird and then manually tracked it throughout its average 28 min duration.
We then immediately tore off the copies, sheared them into three pictures, transperatized them and ran them through an Ozalid Diazo machine using black image paper.
One set was then run again for master Mylar copies for instructional use, another set on paper used for submission to Colorado while a third set was was made on paper for our existing weather chart display.
By carefully overlaying and trimming you could get an image with all three sets showing our surrounding area in fascinating detail.
WE were both pleased and surprised to learn later that our products were much sharper and clearer than our sister station in La Jolla, Calif. which had all the bells and whistles and was “automated.”
Fun times, especially one morning when we were warming up the set and trying to tune to a reseved frequency only to be startled to hear a music station out of San Jose; as soon as we heard the call letters, we rushed to the phone, called 411 and got hold of the station manager who got the problem resolved with his broadcast just in time to catch old Tiros crossing our horizon.
We also tracked some of the Nimbus series.
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