This year’s Arctic sea ice minimum reaches third highest level in a decade, latest data show.
Die kalte Sonne here presents its latest climate video. The first part looks at this year’s Arctic sea ice melt season. Now that it’s September, sea ice extent has just about reached its minimum for the year and soon the annual refreeze will begin.
We recall that years ago alarmist scientists and wacko activists, like al Gore, predicted an ice free Arctic by now. Today we look at the most recent data and we see that we are a very long way from that point.
Very slow August melt this year
What follows is the chart from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC):
Chart source: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
This year’s result is eye-opening: The German Die kalte Sonne site reports: “The Arctic sea ice is surprisingly stable” and “truly robust”.
Third highest level in 10 years
Die kalte Sonne also looks at the chart from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany, where we see the September minimum ice level (15%) in 2021 is the third highest in the past decade:
Die kalte Sonne notes that we are still a long way from the once projected iceless Arctic – of the sort that climate-crisis bedwetter Al Gore predicted.
Ice volume same as 80 years ago
When one looks at Arctic ice volume going back 170 years, today’s levels are in fact very similar to those seen in 1940:
As the above chart suggests, there’s a lot more to ice volume at the poles than mean global surface temperature. Other cyclic natural factors, which man has absolutely no control over, are very much at play.
I wonder if anyone knows who first predicted the Ice-Free-Arctic?
Big Al was just a mouthpiece and Peter Wadhams is, perhaps, best known and now “1 Wadhams” has gained internet fame. After many years Wadhams changed his tune, saying he didn’t actually mean “free”, but rather below 1M sq. km. (I think that’s the story line.)
I may be too old to care if this doesn’t happen soon.
In 1969 Bernt Balchen predicted the ice would be gone by 2000.
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/02/20/archives/expert-says-arctic-ocean-will-soon-be-an-open-sea-catastrophic.html
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