No late summer Arctic ice melting in 20 years!
Why are the climate ambulance chasers now way out in Nepal, grabbing at straws? The reason is because there’s little weather action anywhere else that would support the alarmist climate narrative – not even the Arctic.
Typically this time of the year you’ll find them chasing huirricanes in the Atlantic basin, or hollering doomsday warnings way up in the Arctic.
August 27 Arctic sea ice extent
Strangely, the alarmists have been mysteriously abesent from the North Pole region for many years now. Al Gore’s warning (citing experts) of an ice free Arctic by 2013 never materialized. Here’s the August 27 Arctic sea ice extent since 1990:
Chart by NTZ. Data source: Meereisportal
The data show that late-summer Arctic sea ice (August 27) has remained stable over the past two decades!
The post-2007 trend slope is only -0.01 million km²/year, a significant deceleration compared to the rapid loss rate of -0.105 million km² per year observed between 1990 and 2006. In a nutshell, Arctic sea ice late summer minimum has been stable for 20 years!
Record low burned area in Europe
And espite all the screaming from the media about Europe’s hot and dry summer, and raging forest fires, the data show very calm and encouraging conditions in terms of burned area for 2026 over Europe:
Source: GWIS
The reality is that burned area across Europe this summer has remained at a record low, and will likely remain on track to finish far below normal as rain sweeps over Europe again. These are inconvenient news for climate alarmists.
Low Atlantic cyclone activity this year
Also the hurricane season isn’t cooperating.
The next chart depicts the comparison of the 2026 Atlantic Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) –which tells us how frequent and strong hurricanes have been– against historical averages and notable El Niño analog years through late August.
Chart by NTZ. Data source: https://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?loc=northatlantic
2026 Atlantic cyclone energy has been only 11% of normal activity.
Now you know why the climate ambulance-chasers have all gone to Nepal.
I’m sorry, Pierre, but the lack of hurricanes in the Atlantic is due to ….climate change!
Many sources connect this year’s El Nino to the low hurricane season. So I did a search for the cause of the El Nino.
This from Copilot (AI):
“The 2026 Super El Niño is the result of a rapid and unusually strong shift in the Pacific Ocean’s climate cycle, driven by a combination of natural ocean-atmosphere dynamics and the backdrop of human-caused climate change.”
What a load of dreck.
Seemingly the coldest arctic melt season EVA.
https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plus80n/daily/daily_ts_2026.png
Since 1958 anyway.
https://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Snow in the desert: typical consequence of man-made global warming.
https://www.earth.com/earth-science/one-of-the-driest-places-on-earth-was-transformed-by-a-rare-winter-storm/
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Very informative and useful post. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Yes, the Arctic ice extents at end of August are significant,being the last month when extents decline. September usually ends slightly higher. Here are the stats from averaging the last 5 days of each August, from both MASIE and SII.
https://rclutz.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/August-end-5-days-Arctic-Ice.png