More Arctic Fake News
FEBRUARY 19, 2017
By Paul Homewood
As we all know, the Arctic has been experiencing a heatwave this winter, with resultant massive ice melt.
This is what the new ice free Arctic looks like now:
nsidc.org
According to NSIDC, ice extent has already surpassed last year’s at this date, and is only 111,000 sq km less than back in 2005.
nsidc.org
The growth in Greenland’s ice sheet has been blowing away records:
dmi.dk
And NH snow cover extent was amongst the highest on record last month:
climate.rutgers.edu
I hate to think what the Arctic would look like after a cold spell.
notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com
ristvan PERMALINK
February 19, 2017 6:47 pm
The fact that a series of storms brought warmer air into the arctic is actually a massive cooling event, as the heat radiates to space in the dark Arctic winter. And this warmth is still -20C.
ristvan PERMALINK
February 19, 2017 6:47 pm
The fact that a series of storms brought warmer air into the arctic is actually a massive cooling event, as the heat radiates to space in the dark Arctic winter. And this warmth is still -20C.
Tom Dowter PERMALINK
February 20, 2017 2:16 am
What is all the fuss about? Arctic sea ice concentration is not a good proxy for global temperatures – and an even worse one for temperatures in the rest of the world.
If we correlate the year on year changes in sea ice with the global temperature changes as measured by UAH, We find that the best covariance is for the month of August at 10.26% and the worst is for February at 0.01%. Overall the covariance for the year is only 5.07%.
If we use temperatures in the rest of the world outside the Arctic, the yearly figure drops to 3.36% |
