Facts About the Arctic in January 2023
t the beginning of the New Year all the central regions of the Arctic are now refrozen apart from a small area of the Kara Sea.
Facts About the Arctic in December 2022
Extent increase stalled for the last few days of November, and as a result extent is now in a “statistical tie” with 2017 for 4th lowest extent for the date.
Facts About the Arctic in November 2022
After a brief pause mid-month the refreeze has accelerated again.
The Primacy of Doubt
Recently Judith Curry published a series of articles on the topic of blackouts. Since attempting to prevent such things is my “professional” speciality I’ve spent a bit of time over at “Climate Etc.” recently. Hence I couldn’t help but notice…
Rewriting The Arctic
Peter, a welcome new denizen here at the Great White Con Ivory Towers, appears to have parachuted into our far north summer hideaway on the shores of Santa’s Secret Summer Swimming Pool straight from Tony Heller‘s Unreal Climate Science blog….
Facts About the Arctic in October 2022
The 2022/23 freezing season has begun, so to begin with here are Arctic sea ice area and extent during its early stages.
Transition time
Throughout February, Arctic sea ice extent tracked between second and fourth lowest in the satellite record while Antarctic sea ice extent tracked at record low extents.
Antarctic sea ice settles on record low extent, again
On February 21, Antarctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 1.79 million square kilometers (691,000 square miles).
Antarctic sea ice extent sets a new record low
Antarctic sea ice extent appears to have broken the record low set last year.