Sea Ice Anomaly

University of Illinois ^ | 5/16/2016 | Stephen Triesch

[Steve_Seattle]

The University of Illinois maintains a website monitoring global sea ice. Recent data is unprecedented (in my experience) in its strangeness.

[Steve_Seattle]

For many years, the University of Illinois has maintained a website monitoring global sea ice levels. In recent days, their data has gotten weird. In the northern hemisphere, their data shows a massive INCREASE in sea ice, even though we are approaching summer. By contrast, the southern hemisphere, approaching winter, shows a massive DECREASE in sea ice. Does anyone know what's going on?

[Jet Jaguar]

I blame the metric system.

[nevergore]

I blame the lack of good Scotch in the southern hemisphere....no need for ice...

[smokingfrog]

They’re still on dialup.

[bigtoona]

Since the only large sea ice measurements started in 1979 with proper weather satellites, who knows. This may be a normal cyclical thing. Of course the global warming crowd will claim otherwise even in the absence of actual long term data over hundreds of years.

[Steve_Seattle]

Still waiting for a serious reply . . .

[Rennes Templar]

It’s mirroring the election - Trump has turned it all upside down.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

On average it appears to be balanced...

[Steve_Seattle]

Go to the link and look at the anomaly chart - it is weird. It is so weird it looks like bad data.

[spokeshave]

If this keeps up...we should be worried about the Earth toppling over.

[spokeshave]

The southern ice was just pining for the fjords,,,,

so it took a trip.

[pjd]

Just a guess, but maybe they’ve been fudging their data to show the opposite for some years, and now it is clear they have to get back to reality.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Probably a correction. They’ve been pimping Global Warming for so long that the difference between reality and their lies has caused a large one time correction. They probably hoped that no one would notice.

[Steve_Seattle]

"On average it appears to be balanced..."

It is not balanced, but even if it were, both hemispheres are trending radically in the opposite direction of what would be expected at this time of the year. That's why I'm wondering if they are using bad data.

[Nailbiter]

could be the build up to a polar shift or switch then again could be someone messing with the data

[SaveFerris]

Somebody alert Hank Johnson!!!

[batterycommander]

Pole reversal underway.

[OkiMusashi]

Fracking?
Rush Limbaugh?
Christians?
The Koch Brothers?
Fox News?
Whitey?
The NRA?

Okay, I give up.

[DaxtonBrown]

Sometimes the sea ice amounts are affected by wind and precipitation as much as temperature.

[infool7]

Maybe the earth’s magnetic poles flipped and the program that collects the data is reversed.