The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org)

Layzej writes: Arctic sea ice was at a record low maximum extent for the second straight year, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA. This year's maximum extent is 1.12 million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average of 15.64 million square kilometers. Ice extent increases through autumn and winter, and the maximum typically occurs in mid-March. Sea ice then retreats through spring and summer and shrinks to its smallest or minimum extent typically by mid-September. Ice melt in the region is reducing the transport of warm southern waters brought north by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). "Some studies suggest that decreased heat flux of warm Atlantic waters could lead to a recovery of all Arctic sea ice in the near future," said NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve. "I think it will have more of a winter impact and could lead to a temporary recovery of winter ice extent in the Barents and Kara seas."

Comments

BEWARE!

[Zeromous]

Beware, the Tides of March!!!

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[Pinkoir]

Also known to be bearish on surface ice.

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[AthanasiusKircher]

Since when is this not EXACTLY how the scientific process should work?

Well, as the evidence piles up, it becomes more and more difficult to rationally accept opposing views. Yes, the exact models and magnitude of various changes are still under discussion, but denying climate change entirely is pretty hard to maintain given the evidence.

I'll verify a hundred times before blind acceptance any day.

Indeed. It takes me a long time to get going every morning. Since I don't believe in settled science, I don't trust mirrors. That whole "law of reflection" thing could turn out to be bogus. So I spend an hour calibrating the mirror in my bathroom to shave and then testing the mirrors on my car before driving.

I also don't buy this "gravity" thing. It's just a theory. So I'm a little afraid to flush the toilet after using it, since stuff could come flying upward instead of moving downward into the drain. So, I run a bunch of experiments on the water in my house to verify gravity still seems to be working before I flush.

Also, I calibrate my stove and verify that it will actually heat my breakfast. Those "laws of thermodynamics" are science, but they of course aren't "settled." That's not how science works, after all. There's no reason heat couldn't start flowing backward and freeze my whole kitchen when I turn on the stove.

Just to avoid problems, I run my scientific experiments every day to "verify" that these "laws" still seem to work. I know it's a hard life, and I have to get up at 2am just to get to work on time. But, I'll verify a hundred times before blind acceptance any day!!

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[religionofpeas]

Folks have a hard time taking serious action based on this especially when we've been hearing "end of humanity within five years" for over a decade.

You accuse people of hyperbole, and yet you give the worst demonstration I've heard in a million years.