Antarctica minus the ice – welcome to your future

1. Sunshinehours reports that the Antarctic Sea Ice Extent for September 19th, 2014 is 20.11297 million square kilometers,
   which is 1,535,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 climatological mean.

   Another 58,000 sq km. was added since yesterday, making it the 7th All-Time Record in 7 Days.

   http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-extent-sets-new-record-pierces-20-million-square-kilometer-barrier/

   • http://grist.org/climate-energy/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-a-record-max-and-thats-not-good/

     I would also be interested to know if this increased sea ice area has the same thickness as in the past.

     • From the British Antarctic Survey comes this press release which really isn’t a surprise to climate skeptics. In Antarctica, not only is the amount of sea ice increasing each year, but an underwater robot now shows the ice is also much thicker than was previously thought, a new study in Nature Geoscience reports.

       http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/24/surprise-robot-sub-finds-much-thicker-than-expected-antarctic-sea-ice/

       • This doesn’t change the bigger picture. Larsen B is set to complete its slide as are other glacier like the Pine. Much of the warming is going into the oceans, an energy equivalent of 12 Hiroshima bombs per second. That heat will be given off by the sea sometime soon. I believe there is a new El Nino expected this summer.
         Meantime the weather is becoming more unstable = a warning of the onset of abrupt climate change.

2. The below comments, taken from your reference, raise the same concerns I had with the article you linked to…

   Jimmy November 24, 2014 at 11:14 am

   Maybe I missed it, but I don’t see where the presser says they measured “much thicker than expected” ice. All I see is that they were able to measure thicker ice than had previously been possible due to technical considerations.

   TonyK November 24, 2014 at 11:29 am

   Exactly. Is the ice thicker than they previously estimated or has it just been measured more accurately? Be very careful of reading more in that’s there – it will come back to bite you!

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