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We’ve all seen this graph of Arctic Temperature above 80°N from DMI: In this guest post by Harold Ambler, we find that DMI actually goes to the trouble of applying as many data sources as they can to their numerical...

By Steve Goddard On June 28, I generated a forecast projection for Arctic ice during the remainder of the summer, seen below. So how is it doing so far? The image below shows that my forecast has been too conservative. …...

It is still quite cold in the Arctic, with below normal air temperatures and sea surface temperatures surrounding the ice pack between around 2-4°C. Much of that has to do with meltwater. I’ve added this image to our...

Tired of surfing the net to get all the widely spread sea ice graphs and images? I got your back. Introducing the WUWT Sea Ice Machine. Given the intense interest in Arctic Sea Ice this year, since it appears we … Continue...

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick to death of hearing about the polar bears as a proxy for Arctic ice issues. Yesterday, Steve Goddard pointed out the ramifications related to polar bears of NSIDC’s Dr....

Note: I second Steve’s thanks below to Dr. Meier for his essays (part1 and part 2) that enable us to have this discussion. Back on Feb 9th, 2010 WUWT readers polled that Arctic sea ice would be recovering over 2009,...

By Steve Goddard In part two of Dr. Meier’s post , he mentioned : “Examination of several proxy records (e.g., sediment cores) of sea ice indicate ice-free or near ice-free summer conditions for at least some time...

Note: I second Steve’s thanks below to Dr. Meier for his essays (part1 and part 2) that enable us to have this discussion. Back on Feb 9th, 2010 WUWT readers polled that Arctic sea ice would be recovering over 2009,...

Yesterday, Dr. Meier commented on PIPS -VS- PIOMAS, here is Part 2 Here are some thoughts on three other sea ice issues addressed in recent posts: (1) concentration vs. extent, (2) the causes of the 2007 record minimum, and...

Steve Goddard has written several contributions on sea ice lately, particularly on the PIPS model, and as expected there has been much discussion about sea ice as we’ve entered another summer melt season...

By Steve Goddard, as a follow up to this story ‘ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jakobshavn_retreat-1851-2006.jpg The press has been getting worked up about a 7 km² chunk of ice which broke off the Jakobshavn (Greenland)...

By Steve Goddard A popular AGW cottage industry from 2003-2007 was to make press releases warning that the Greenland ice sheet was melting down. Some fine pieces of journalism were produced, like this one from the BBC. The...

I wrote this nine days ago : stevengoddard says: June 28, 2010 at 10:16 pm In three days, the slope of the Arctic extent graph will begin to drop off. Mark it on your calendar. Anyone who doubts the correctness … Continue...

By Steve Goddard Last month, a number of well known web sites and commenters were getting themselves worked up with comments like “Arctic ice dropping at the fastest rate in history” and “Arctic ice is dropping...