Originally Posted by
Winged Wheeler
It was a cold summer in the northern hemisphere and it will be a cold winter. The arctic sea ice extent at its minimum in 2010 will be higher again than in 2009. Call me out next Sept if I am wrong.
Well, after five independant investigations into "Climategate," all five inquires determined that the science was not compromised. The "junk climate science" controversy came to nothing.
Also, the Arctic sea ice you were expecting to recover from the 2009 levels didn't happen. In fact, sea ice extent (area
and volume) is trending in the other direction.
As the Arctic melt season draws to a close there are still a very few people writing about recovery. A trend towards recovery would be a reversal over at least a decade of all current Arctic ice loss trends. A reversal would show ice becoming older, thicker and less mobile on average year-on-year. In fact, the trend is clear: the ice is becoming younger, thinner and more mobile year-on-year. If that trend continues - and I can see no reason why it should not - then we shall soon see an essentially ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer.
Arctic Ice September 2010 - Update #1