Arctic Ice 2011 - Sail, Steam And Satellites
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 11:20
in Earth & Climate
Arctic Ice 2011 - Sail, Steam and SatellitesThe NSIDC will shortly be publishing its report for March 2011. I expect the report to conclude that Arctic sea ice extent for February 2011 was the 'lowest in the satellite record'. That would mean the 'lowest ever recorded in human history', since we have abundant data on historic ice extent. There is a false argument doing the rounds of the blogs: words to the effect that we have no accurate knowledge of ice extent before the age of satellites. This is, of course, nonsense on stilts in clown boots with a squirting flower - the latter being filled with complete and utter bilge with an admixture of absolute hogwash. read more