Arctic Ice Growing Rapidly
By Paul Homewood
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
It is now safe to confirm that the minimum Arctic sea ice extent has now been passed this year, with an area of 4.083 million sq km on 7th September.
This is 22% greater than in 2012, despite two major storms in August that led to break up of ice.
The ice has been regrowing remarkably rapidly for the last week, and already stands above the start of the month. Tentatively, we may be seeing one of the fastest September growths on record.
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_nrt_v2.csv
This was also one of the earliest minimums on record, indeed the earliest since 1997. This is a good indication of just how cold it is in the Arctic at the moment.
Already, ice extent is above that of 2007 on the same date, as well as 2012.
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
With two days to go, it’s almost as though mother nature is sticking two fingers up at ….
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/17/arctic-collapse-sea-ice
I shall be watching with some interest to see if any section of the Arctic ice grows into such an appropriate outline over the coming weeks…
Not that it’s reported that way on the BBC website (posted one hour ago): “Second lowest minimum for Arctic ice”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37376896
I wonder if they’ll catch up?
The ship of fools got out just in time, they’d done their home work.
No. They got very lucky, and knew they were in potential trouble weeks ago. The Laptev sea ice delay nearly did them in.
Luck and Rudolf Diesel.
Plus 2000 liters of fuel, resupplied 3 times during the voyage. Murmansk, Barrow, Tuk. Probably Nuuk will make 4 times. 86 HP Perkins, making per the Northabout Irish site 7 knots at 1800 rpm. 1800 is a quite standard 80% max efficiency ‘cruise’ rpm. Was exactly the same with my 27hp Yanmar on my Hunter 35.5 sloop. Of course, we only carried about 40 liters.
They should have relied on renewables and not increased their carbon “footprint” – hypocrites !
And of course daily access to satellite sea ice charts didn’t hurt.
At the time they came through the NW Passage, every other route was blocked.
The main channel through McClure Strait. was blocked by multi-year sea ice
Larsen’s 1944 route was totally impassable
Amudsen’s 1903 route was solidly blocked
Even the southern route through Fury/Hecla was blocked.
Somehow they just managed to choose, well in advance, the one single route that allowed then through.
The southern NWP route is now closed at the NE exit, with northern Prince Regent Sound blocked by 9/10 ice in freeze up mode. Exactly where they barely made it through after hours of probing on 9/12. Northabout made it through NWP with just two days to spare. Had they taken the planned 2 days resupplying in Barrow rather than 1, and the planned one day call at Cambridge Bay (meeting up with Polar Bound), they would not have made it out and would have had to turn around and overwinter at Cambridge Bay. It was that close.
Because of the availability of satellite sea ice charts, they knew they were in trouble and had to go as fast as possible to get through.
They had a 92HP Perkins and two 15HP outboard motors.. I suspect they had all going flat chat.
They certainly were not sailing.
All they succeeded in proving was that satellite sea ice charts are a massive help..
and that there is still one heck of a lot of sea ice up in the Arctic.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
“This was also one of the earliest minimums on record, indeed the earliest since 1997. This is a good indication of just how cold it is in the Arctic at the moment.”
Weren’t we assured, under one of the principal tenets of CO2-induced global warming theory, that “polar amplification” would be the most obvious fingerprint of increased CO2 emissions? 🤔
Record cold and expanding ice down at the other pole, Antarctica, needs a theory check too perhaps!
A timely reminder to get some new snow chains, thanks!
I wonder what Professor Wadhams has to say?
“cough, splutter,,,” would about do it!
Speaking of Wadhams.
I have coined a new measure of Arctic sea ice area..
1 Wadham = 1 million km²
Please try to use this new unit as appropriate.
Yes, it will be interesting to see how the rest of Sept. plays out with such an early minimum. Remember that climatologists look at the average for the month. MASIE results are similar, though the smallest extent was 4.1M on Sept. 10 (a 1 day dip). I think at least in MASIE dataset, 2016 may catch up to 2015, as well as beating 2007 by a lot.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2016/09/12/arctic-ice-minimum/
According to sunshinehours,
Arctic sea ice area is currently exactly 1 Wadham above the same date in 2012.
I forget. How many Manhattans make up 1 Wadham?
About 16,920
Having passed day 260, the average date for annual Arctic ice minimum, the outlook is more ice than 2007, and close to 2008 or 2011.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/arctic-plateau-continues/
Professor Madwash here: just a minor setback, I’m sure.
The Mini-Ice age approaches, and the world will be stunned when they realize how much they have been lied to.
after a slight global warming there is a flash freeze for years after.. this is proven by geologist research of the areas.. this is the normal pattern of weather.. period