Thursday, July 24, 2008
Sea ice watch
Notwithstanding claims that the Northern Hemisphere's sea ice would shrink to record lows this year, satellites indicate that there is almost a million square kilometers more of it this year than on the same day last year. It remains about a million square kilometers below the mean for the 1979-2000 base period.
In the Southern Hemisphere there is also more sea ice than on this day a year ago, and the total area exceeds the base line period.
You can bookmark the links above and check them every day. By mid-September we will know whether the people who portentiously predicted the record melt this summer were correct. Then watch them explain why this presumably good news is not news at all and has no bearing on the climate change debate.
8 Comments:
By 
, at
Thu Jul 24, 11:17:00 AM:
Our summer here in the upper Mississippi Valley has been cooler and rainier than usual. I can hardly wait to see it this winter is as cold as the last one -- maybe snowier too.
By , at
Thu Jul 24, 02:20:00 PM:
More ice in the Arctic and Antarctica.....global cooling....mmmmm, the tipping point has been reached?
By , at
Thu Jul 24, 05:15:00 PM:
Hmmm, let's see. Northern hemisphere: more ice. Southern hemisphere: more ice.
You can ignore this alarming data if you want, but I intend to do my part in the struggle against global cooling by henceforth melting a third ice cube in every glass of MaCallan's 18 year old single malt that I consume.
By , at
Thu Jul 24, 05:59:00 PM:
This is not the sea ice that I knew!
-Al Gore
By 
Nomennovum, at
Thu Jul 24, 06:14:00 PM:
Yes. That's it! An ice age is coming!
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
By Nomennovum, at
Thu Jul 24, 06:19:00 PM:
Halp us, John Carry! We r stuck hear on urth!
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Jul 24, 09:35:00 PM:
A clever Jedi mind trick -- this is not the sea ice you are looking for.
By clint, at
Mon Jul 28, 10:22:00 AM:
I will make a bold and daring prediction:
CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, the AP, Reuters, and all of this countries major newspapers will somehow all fail to notice this story.
