At the rate it’s going, it could soon be the greatest in at least 14 years.
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The blackest line (on the chart below) shows current Arctic sea-ice volume. Note that it is greater than in 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and is on track to break the 2004 to 2014 mean.
“Actually the current news should not be that there is less sea-ice, but more,” says ready Caleb Shaw. “How much more? The DMI “volume” graph suggests there is 4500 km³ more ice this year than last year. But the media? Crickets.”
“Fletcher’s Ice Island” served as a floating arctic-airbase for a quarter century, and it was always too slushy there to land planes in the summer. I found two pictures of a DC-3 that crashed up there in the 1950’s, and the second picture (from the 1970’s I think) shows so much ice had melted that the DC-3 is way up on a pedestal:
“Summer melting has always occurred at the Pole, for as long as we’ve been watching. And now we are watching it again.”
https://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/arctic-sea-ice-high-summer/
In order to make current sea-ice levels look lower Alarmists need to suppress the historical record of warm arctic summers in the past. One way they do this is to “in-fill” areas on old maps where we have zero data with “100% sea-ice”, when there is no reason not to suppose there was just as much broken up summer sea-ice, and open water, in the past as there is today.
You probably have seen the pictures of the submarine that found open water to surface in back during the 1950’s.
In 2014 WUWT had an early “Nimbus” satellite picture showing a large area of open water north of Alaska in 1969.
Thanks to Caleb Shaw for these links
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