ICE AND SNOW CENTER ADMITS ERROR IN CALCULATION OF POLAR ICE THIS YEAR

FoxNews ^ | 02/23/09 | Kackikat

[Kackikat]

Brett Baer just announced the Snow and Ice Center that measures amount of Polar Ice just admitted they made a mistake the size of California, when measuring the amount of ice.

[Kackikat]

Al Gore will be crushed, as this means that there is more polar ice than he claimed. ICE THE SIZE OF CALIFORNIA was erroneouly not entered in calculations. That was between Jan to now 2009.

Now they think last years calculations are good but will redo them.....GLOBAL WARMING not as bad as they claim.

[xcamel]

FR has been on this for about a week now...

[romanesq]

OOOPS!

[txnativegop]

Am I surprised? not hardly

[max americana]

In short, we’re NOT going to die as Al Gore says?

[benjibrowder]

[MarkeyD]

Good Gorebull Warming Site:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

[Semper911]

The real news is that there is a such thing as the Ice and Snow Center.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to The Top of the World !

[Pearls Before Swine]

Ohhhh, the polar bears. Not.

[HollyB]

But, it was very convenient information for Al. Now, what is he going to do?

[cripplecreek]

In short, we’re NOT going to die as Al Gore says?

Cheer up Hoss, there's always next year.

[cbkaty]

[BerryDingle]

SOB backing over me like that, he just made a mistake the
size of California.

[vox_freedom]

[ModelBreaker]

Let me guess. They overestimated the amount of ice, No? Have you ever noticed that all the oopses from the acolytes of Global Warming all just happen to be mistakes in the direction they would prefer. After a while, they can no longer realistically be considered mistakes.

[vox_freedom]

But wait, I just sold all of my long underwear and sweaters and bought Hawaiian shirts based on the global warming threat. What now???!!!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The National Snow and Ice Data Center
February 18, 2009
Satellite sensor errors cause data outage

As some of our readers have already noticed, there was a significant problem with the daily sea ice data images on February 16. The problem arose from a malfunction of the satellite sensor we use for our daily sea ice products. Upon further investigation, we discovered that starting around early January, an error known as sensor drift caused a slowly growing underestimation of Arctic sea ice extent. The underestimation reached approximately 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles) by mid-February. Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality control measures prior to archiving the data. See below for more details.

We have removed the most recent data and are investigating alternative data sources that will provide correct results. It is not clear when we will have data back online, but we are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index.html

[IronJack]

A California here, a Texas there, pretty soon you’re talking about a real mistake ...

[odin2008]