New Record Low For Arctic Sea ice In January - NSIDC/Climate Crocks

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January hits a new record low in the #Arctic. #seaice http://bit.ly/1VRpNFJ
8:00 AM - 5 Feb 2016

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Above: Greg Laden says:

“For the heck of it, I turned on all the weak, moderate, strong El Nino years on the interactive graph to see how the present year compares. As expected:”

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UPDATE – Bob Henson in Weather Underground:

This winter’s freezing season in the Arctic is falling short. The extent of Arctic sea ice this week is hovering near record-low values for early February, based on observations that extend back to the start of satellite monitoring in 1979. Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) shows that last month had the lowest overall Arctic sea ice extent of any January in the satellite record (Figure 1). As detailed in an NSIDC report on Thursday, the total extent of 13.53 million square kilometers (5.2 million square miles) was 1.04 million sq km below the 1981-2010 average and 90,000 sq km below the record from January 2011.

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Only a few weeks are left before the return of polar sunshine puts an end to the freeze-up that typically starts in September and peaks in late February or March. Last year’s maximum extent occurred quite early–on February 25–and it was the lowest in the satellite record, at 14.54 million square kilometers. This year appears to have a reasonable shot at breaking that record.

The not-so-frozen North
Hand in hand with the skimpy ice cover, temperatures across the Arctic have been extraordinarily warm for midwinter. Just before New Year’s, a slug of mild air pushed temperatures above freezing to within 200 miles of the North Pole. That warm pulse quickly dissipated, but it was followed by a series of intense North Atlantic cyclones that sent very mild air poleward, in tandem with a strongly negative Arctic Oscillation during the first three weeks of the month

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http://climatecrocks.com/2016/02/05/arctic-ice-hits-new-january-low/#more-30120

[daleanime]

1. kick, kick, kick....

[BlueJazz]

2. Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick......

[SoLeftIAmRight]

3. It is even too late for that

the bomb has gone off

the shockwave is on the way

[BlueJazz]

4. Isn't that the truth. We could have stopped this. My little theory is the people who had the power..

...that could have brought about change had the disgusting thought that "Why should I care?..I'll be dead long before it affects me"

[sylvanus]

5. Well I think the 1% believes and maybe rightly so that...

their wealth will see them through the worst of it.
In the great depression the super wealthy didn't really struggle, matter a fact
many of them increased there wealth.
They'll just set up isolated gated communities and buy up the last of the best food stuff's.
While were fighting in bread lines and eating grass, they'll be fine for a while.
Until the paid security starts going hungry and the ammo runs out.
Course, population will have crashed by then, maybe that's why they're hoarding
wealth, they think it will get them through.