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Feb 18th, 2017 at 4:39pm
 
The extent of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic last month was the lowest on record for January, the UN World Meteorological Organization says, while concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a January record.

"The missing ice in both poles has been quite extraordinary," David Carlson, director of the World Climate Research Programme, told a UN briefing in Geneva on Friday.

"It is a quite strange situation. It's extraordinarily warm in the north, and the sea ice, which is one indicator of planetary warmth, is at a minimum at this point in both hemispheres."

This January, Arctic sea ice averaged 13.38 million square km. The previous record low was just a year ago, in January 2016, when there was 260,000 square km more ice - bigger than the area of the United Kingdom.

Arctic ice was 8.6 per cent below the average for January, while ice in the Antarctic sea, where it is summer, was 22.8 per cent below the average, the WMO said, citing data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/arctic-and-antarctic-sea-ice-at-recor...
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Reply #1 - Feb 18th, 2017 at 4:50pm
 
I wonder how Bolt The Dolt of 2GB/4BC/Murdoch fame will spin this!

Ignore it or get that discredited Dr Howard Bradey on there spinning his theories unchallenged!

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Reply #2 - Feb 18th, 2017 at 4:55pm
 
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-shee...


Oct. 31, 2015
NASA Study:

Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses

Antarctic Peninsula
A new NASA study says that Antarctica is overall accumulating ice. Still, areas of the continent, like the Antarctic Peninsula photographed above, have increased their mass loss in the last decades.
Credits: NASA's Operation IceBridge


A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.

According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001. That net gain slowed   to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008.


Zwally’s team calculated that the mass gain from the thickening of East Antarctica remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the ice losses from the coastal regions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula increased by 65 billion tons per year.

“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally said
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The_Barnacle wrote on Feb 18th, 2017 at 4:39pm:
The extent of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic last month was the lowest on record for January,



What is the period of record? Does it cover the alarm in the early 20th century?
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Reply #5 - Feb 18th, 2017 at 11:28pm
 
lee wrote on Feb 18th, 2017 at 5:05pm:
The_Barnacle wrote on Feb 18th, 2017 at 4:39pm:
The extent of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic last month was the lowest on record for January,



What is the period of record? Does it cover the alarm in the early 20th century?

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Reply #6 - Feb 19th, 2017 at 9:24am
 
Bobby. wrote on Feb 18th, 2017 at 4:55pm:
Zwally’s team calculated that the mass gain from the thickening of East Antarctica remained steady from 1992 to 2008 at 200 billion tons per year, while the ice losses from the coastal regions of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula increased by 65 billion tons per year.



Bobby you are confusing sea ice with land ice
you also forgot to cut and paste this bit

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If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses

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watch at 47:50 onwards.

The climate can change drastically in 1 to 3 years.
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Reply #9 - Feb 19th, 2017 at 11:17am
 
Bobby, don't start spamming my thread with your ice age rubbish. Keep that crap in your own thread.

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Definition of irony: Global warming scientists travel to Antarctica to study the melting ice, and get stuck in the ice.


It's only ironic to the ignorant and ill informed

The Antarctic plateau is one of the coldest places on earth and averages about -55 degrees C. Clearly no amount of AGW is going to melt this ice. AGW does however allow the air to hold more moisture, hence ironicly, global warming is actually responsible for more ice on the Antarctic plateau.

The coastal areas of Antarctica are much warmer and are the areas most affected by global warming.
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Reply #11 - Feb 19th, 2017 at 11:31am
 
September 1957 - arctic decreases by 40%

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May 1947 - arctic melting

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22429983?searchTerm=climate%20change&sea...

November 1922 - arctic melting

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-11-0589a.pdf
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Reply #12 - Feb 19th, 2017 at 11:54am
 
The_Barnacle wrote on Feb 19th, 2017 at 11:17am:
The coastal areas of Antarctica are much warmer and are the areas most affected by global warming.



Please show the data.

Like Mawson?

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https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/antarctic-temperature-t...

All temperature from GISS

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/
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Reply #13 - Feb 19th, 2017 at 12:01pm
 
Thanks Ajax for supporting the evidence in my thread.
I noticed your link talked about Antarctic sea ice from back in 2014 where as my link refers to January 2017.
I've cut and pasted this from your link


While the Antarctic sea ice yearly wintertime maximum extent hit record highs from 2012 to 2014 before returning to average levels in 2015, both the Arctic wintertime maximum and its summer minimum extent have been in a sharp decline for the past decades. Studies show that globally, the decreases in Arctic sea ice far exceed the increases in Antarctic sea ice.
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Reply #14 - Feb 19th, 2017 at 12:29pm
 
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Yep. That sure looks scary. Wink
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