The dramatic, if largely unpublicised, recovery in Arctic sea ice is continuing into the New Year. Despite the contestable claims of the ‘hottest year ever’ (and even hotter in 2024), Arctic sea ice on January 8th stood at its highest level in 21 years. Last December, the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) revealed that sea ice recorded its third highest monthly gain in the modern 45-year record. According to the science blog No Tricks Zone, the reading up to January 8th has now far exceeded the average for the years 2011-2020. It also exceeds the average for the years 2001-2010, and points directly upwards with regard to the average for the years 1991-2000.
The graph below shows the scale of the recovery compared to all the years tracked in the modern satellite record.
Of course this is only about half a winter’s worth of data, and we must be careful not to follow alarmists down their chosen political path of cherry picking and warning of climate collapse on the basis of individual events. But as we have seen in recent Daily Sceptic articles, the current recovery in Arctic sea ice is a climate trend that can be taken back to around 2007. In a recent paper, the Danish scientist Allan Astrup Jensen provided data showing a fall in the sea ice between 1997 and 2007 but minimal losses in the 45-year record both before and after this period. The investigative journalist Tony Heller draws a four-year moving average to show a small recovery in the lowest ice extent in September from around 2012. He also notes that 1979 was a recent high point, with lower ice levels in the 1970s going back to the 1950s.
Where does all this leave the alarmists promoting their insane collectivist Net Zero project? Stuck up a frozen creek without an ice pick, it might be suggested. In 2022, Sir David Attenborough told BBC viewers that the summer sea ice could all be gone within 12 years. Climate models fed with opinions and wishful thinking seem to have guided him in his lamentations rather than the actual data. But if the ice continues to roar back, it is likely that the sea ice scare will have to be retired, along with all the disappearing coral popping up in record amounts on the Great Barrier Reef.
Cyclical natural climate variations, observed in the past record going back to the early 1800s, appear to offer a better explanation of trends in the polar sea ice extent. Little understood effects of ocean currents and atmospheric heat exchanges are obvious drivers of the climate in the far north. Taking the view that humans, and only humans, control the climate temperature would appear to be a dead end in understanding Arctic glaciology.
Ditto Antarctica, where the cherry pickings for catastrophists seemed to offer good prospects of late. Last year the BBC reported on lower levels of winter sea ice than those recorded in the recent past. The BBC said it showed a new benchmark for a region “that once seemed resistant to global warming”. This inconvenient resistance of course refers to the fact that Antarctica has shown “nearly non-existent” warming over the last 70 years. Dr. Walter Meier from the NSIDC helpfully added: “It’s so far outside anything we’re seen, it’s almost mind-blowing.” The “mind-blowing” quote made headlines around mainstream media. Alas, Dr. Meier seemed to forget that barely a decade ago he was part of a science team that cracked the secrets of early Nimbus satellite data that showed even lower winter levels of sea ice in 1966
At the time, the Nimbus team won awards and the Daily Sceptic has been able to jog Dr. Meier’s memory on what he said at the time.
Even in the passive microwave record [available since 1979] for the Antarctic you see these seesaws where the ice concentrations go up and down, so extreme high or extreme low are not that unusual. What the Nimbus data tells us is that there’s variability in the Antarctica sea ice that’s larger than any we had seen from the passive microwave data. Nimbus helps put this in a longer term context and extends the record.
Three cheers for the longer record. It doesn’t seem to get much of a look-in these days as the Earth starts to boil. Below, Professor Ole Humlum maps the sea ice extent in Antarctica going back to 1979.
Allan Jensen looks at the same data and notes that any downward trend in the period was very small. The only discernible trend is a rise from around July 2013 followed by a small fall. Jensen points to a recent decline in 2022 and 2023. But, of late, any decline has been slowed with the NSIDC-recorded extent at the end of the last month only the sixth lowest in the record.
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I’m going to have fun with this data the next time my liberal family members come over for dinner and start talking about the climate crisis.
I want to sincerely wish you good luck with that. My liberal family members seem to all go temporarily deaf whenever the truth conflicts with their illusions.
I did manage (once) to bring my sister-in-law to tears over Global Warming. I kept repeating that any cutbacks on CO2 production would mean the starvation of billions of people and that “ethically, I just can’t be part of mass genocide. My morality just won’t let me be party to killing all those women and children.” You get the idea. No matter what she claimed, no matter which self-styled authorities she swore by, I kept telling her, “the only thing keeping all those poor people alive is fossil fuel. We just don’t have a replacement, and my ethics won’t allow me to be part of murdering those poor third-world brown people.” Try it! We both know that logic and facts mean NOTHING to libs. Just pull out ethical superiority over them. Explain that you really wish you could agree with them, that it would be nice, that it would be personally convenient and an advantage to you, but that you just can’t stomach killing all those people for your own personal advantage. Pull your moral superiority out hard, pull it first, and ride it RELENTLESSLY until they slam the door as they walk out.
True Nolan?
You are my hero!
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DOCUMENTING EARTH CHANGES DURING THE NEXT GRAND SOLAR MINIMUM
Lost a lot of grape vines and fruit trees this last winter. Not really unusual, it warmed up a bit then froze again. we get these things called weather cycles and they keep coming around.
British Communista is deep into the climate scam, its what communists do…
We lost fruits WITHOUT frost. Probably the constant chemical cloud’s effect, they were full in bloom, but they dropped everything. Again, there was not an hour of frost, just cold, humid weather without sun. At downs the sun is up but you can see the franken lines forming ‘clouds’ then everything goes dark grey.
Man made climate change indeed, they do it with spaying the sky to cause starvation.
Planting in my part of the country before May 24th can almost guarantee losses due to frost. It ain’t that warm yet.
Just wait until little Billy Man Boobs convinces (bribes) the EU to let him spray shit into their air to block the Sun.
But won’t that kill all his mosquitos?
They work hard on starvation. F…ng cold here, UK, constant chemtrailing blocking the sun, climate change my a.
Whats the name of the movie algore made about global warming ?
Thats what this is.
This has to be an anomaly, as the purely objective scientific models show this cannot occur. Send more Trillion$ so the issue can be studied further.
Don’t need no stinkin’ studies. Just send the trillions so we can get a handle on “this” “thing” before it gets out of control. Trust the science – it’s safe and effective. Two weeks to flatten the warming
Trust The Political Science™
Okay. Who’s going to volunteer to tell Greta?
And, in 3,2,1, our little autistic climate champion will switch to condemning Zionism. Very ecologically minded anti-Zionism mind you.
I’m more afraid of Greta than Hillary. You can do it
The new boogie man is coral bleaching. The coral reefs are dying due to the ocean warming. But this seems to have happened in the past too, only to recover.
I believe that has been disproven as well. The wife loves to watch nature crap and we saw a film showing huge growth of the coral reefs they whine about when not showing Polar Bears “stranded” on tiny ice floes. If any did not know, Polar Bears can swim at least 60 miles in open ocean. It’s all BS.
Waiting for the White House to inform the world that the senile occupant there had a lot to do with the recovery of the ice.
ICE, we’re all goin to die.
It’s all those Russian nuke subs displacing too much water!
Look at sea ice VOLUME versus the fake “extent”. They changed the definition of extent so that only 15% ice/slush counts as sea ice. Volume is at the lowest level EVER.
The unusually cold temperatures are proof of globull warming.