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

My goodness!

[aron1231]

You mean the planet is still warming up (recovering) from an ice age? Inconceivable!

Fear not gentle denizens, another ice age is coming! Then the faithful climateers will rejoice!

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[jfbilodeau]

Verify as much as you want. That's called science. But when the evidence points in a clear direction and your refuse the conclusion, that's called denial.

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[Smidge204]

Well, there are roughly 7 billion people on the planet, and even if only a relatively small proportion of them are screwed (realistically, MOST people will be screwed...) it's a safe bet that problems will persist for *many* generations.

Sea level rise alone stands to displace over a billion people, and that doesn't account for all of the other problems like violent weather and impacts to food and fresh water supplies.

I don't think "billions" is at all histrionic, or even much of an exaggeration.
=Smidge=

Interactive daily diagram of sea ice extent

[MarchHare]

Personally, I love this diagram. I bookmarked it a couple of years ago and I like to show it to people. Climate change is pretty obvious if you hide all the series and then reveal them one by one in chronological order.

    http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/arctic.sea.ice.interactive.html

(University of Illinois)

Re:Natual cycles

[hey!]

Yeah, it's that scientific conspiracy to suppress ideas not supported by evidence.

It's worth noting that none of the lead authors of the NIPCC reports are climate scientists, except possibly Singer who has a background in remote sensing at least. He's also behind so-called "Leipzig Declaration", which is notorious for (a) misrepresenting the qualifications of many of its signatories (e.g. TV weather presenters) and (b) faking the signatures of actual climate scientists.

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[religionofpeas]

Correlation is not causation.

Agreed, but that's a pointless remark, since the mechanism behind CO2 induced warming is well understood on a physical basis. It was already understood more than a century ago, and the global warming effect was already predicted then.

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[GameboyRMH]

That is also pointless. We also know that over the extended record, CO2 follows temperature

Wrong:

https://www.skepticalscience.c...

Re:No amount of evidence is enough

[angel'o'sphere]

Russia won't have a longer growing season.
The cycle of arctic winter and arctic summer does not change at all due to global warming.
The problem in most parts of Russia is light not temperature.

And to the contrair: Russia is fucking hot in summer. If it gets warmer there, the growing season might start 5 days earlier and die abruptly in the middle of it in a heat bowl.