Facts About the Arctic in September 2023
There’s lots of coverage specifically about assorted Arctic sea ice extent metrics over on the “2023 Minimum Extent” thread. However we’ll start the September open thread ball rolling with a couple of cross posted images. At the end of August…
The 2023 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent
It’s that time of year again! Tony Heller has been asserting that “summer is over at the North Pole” for several weeks now, and the 2023 Arctic sea ice minimum extent will occur at some point over the next four…
The Information War with the Fossil Fuel Industry
Here’s a few minutes old Xweet from my now ex Member of the European Parliament, Molly Scott Cato: Those of us who care about the climate are in an information war with the fossil fuel industry This is a forensic…
Facts About the Arctic in August 2023
We have grandchildren visiting this week, so it seems prudent to get the new open thread started a day early, and before they wake up! The ARCUS Sea Ice Prediction Network July report has recently been published. Here’s the graphic…
Tony Heller’s Faithful Flock of Sheep
My Arctic alter ego was checking out the new “X” rated edition of Twitter when “she” couldn’t help but notice that Elon Musk had allowed Tony Heller back into the climate “debate” thereon, albeit with a new handle. “Snow White”…
Facts About the Arctic in July 2023
After briefly being near the bottom of the historical range at the beginning of the month, AWI’s high resolution AMSR2 area metric is now back near the top of that range: However, although it’s not visible on the area graph extent has…
The Northern Sea Route in 2023
Data from the Northern Sea Route General Administration web site about the current positions of ships voyaging along the Northern Sea Route reveal that the liquified natural gas carrier Fedor Litke is currently following the icebreaker Sibir through the East…
The Northwest Passage in 2023
Prompted by a comment by Tom in the June open thread, the time has evidently come to open the 2023 Northwest Passage passage thread. First of all let’s get our bearings with the help of this map of the area:…
Facts About the Arctic in June 2023
By way of a change, which is allegedly as good as a rest, let’s start the new month with a very pretty and almost cloud free “pseudo-colour” image of the Lena Delta and adjacent areas of the Laptev Sea: “False…
Militarizing the Arctic
In the coming decades, Arctic sea ice is expected to melt so much that the region will become traversable much of the year. While environmentally devastating, this will also mean more shipping access, resource extraction, and risk of conflict in…