Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Ice watch
With more than half of the summer melt season gone, it looks like an uphill battle for an ice-free arctic this year.
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New data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute shows that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago.
In most years, there are open waters in the area north of the archipelago in July month. Studies from this year however show that the area is covered by ice, the Meteorological Institute writes in a press release.
In mid-July, the research vessel Lance and the Swedish shp MV Stockholm got stuck in ice in the area and needed help from the Norwegian Coast Guard to get loose.
The ice findings from the area spurred surprise among the researchers, many of whom expect the very North Pole to be ice-free by September this year.
That bit is certainly not getting a lot of headlines in the mainstream media, which is not surprising insofar as it does not fit the narrative.
Meanwhile, Bruce Lieberman has promised to follow up on my question last night regarding albedo.
2 Comments:
By 
The Leading Wedge, at
Thu Jul 31, 05:14:00 AM:
Ice, snow and heat can be funny things. Here in Norway, we're having the warmest spring and summer on record. Still, there is more snow still left on the mountain peaks than I can remember seeing in my 20+ years here.
Strangely, in all this heat, no one is talking about global warming and there's next to nothing about it in the media. That's quite a contrast from just a few months ago when you couldn't go a day without hearing about the impending disaster.
Maybe the Norwegians have decided that a bit of warming is not so bad after all.
I'm not complaining. It's been very good for my golf game.
By The Leading Wedge, at
Thu Jul 31, 06:10:00 AM:
Funny, after writing that comment, this - http://www.yr.no/ver-nytt/1.6159016 - comes up on my browser.
An attractive depiction of the summer snow and young Norwegians playing in it. The article confirms my comment except that it says we had a cold spring.
