Arctic Sea Ice Hits Record Low Extent

mdsolar writes "Arctic sea ice has hit a record low extent for the period of satellite observation. Further, this record has been set in August when the minimum annual sea ice extent (and the prior record) has always come in September. Further still, the ice is still retreating as rapidly as it was in June and July when normally the decrease of sea ice extent slows in August. It is thus possible the the final minimum sea ice extend for 2012 will be seen in October rather than September as has always occurred in the past. More than one monitoring effort agree on the existence of a new record."

Comments

Re:What's really scary about this...

[MacDork]

Alarmists have been predicting an ice free arctic for at least half a century already. Even a stopped watch is right twice a day, eh?

Re:All Right-Thinking People Know ...

[Alaska Jack]

Good lord -- I thought the mods were retarded today BEFORE I saw this post.

"When things get too out of balance"?!?! Allow me to mentally wander back to the old techno-libertarian days of Slashdot, when goofy claptrap like this would have been MERCILESSLY MOCKED, not modded "interesting."

The Chicxulub impact -- did the asteroid somehow sense that things down on Earth were "too out of balance"? Did it think: "Hmm... I'll take care of this!"

lllll AJ

Re:Almost Meaningless

[BlueStrat]

Wow. You've got someone with mod points and your name on them.

But then again, that seems to be modus operandi for you're average Team member, as beautifully detailed in the Climategate leaks :)

Haha, I guess so. :)

Doesn't surprise me, I expected as much, even for simply pointing out that this data alone doesn't prove much. In any other /. topic of discussion that involved a single datapoint, the posts of "correlation does not equal causation" and "one datapoint equals an anecdote" would be legion.

Between /. groupthink and the AGW shill-mods I'm actually surprised they only modded me down as far as they have.

The jokes is on them, however. Anyone even marginally unbiased looking at my post history and then looking at the mods of my posts here can only come to the conclusion that it's simply an attempt to suppress 'an inconvenient truth' and further destroys and discredits their evangelism, just as the Climategate emails and the coverup and attempted poorly-executed whitewashes that followed did.

Strat