Brian Wakem wrote:

BlueLightning wrote:
Summer Arctic sea ice falls far below average for fourth year, winter
ice sees sharp decline, spring melt starts earlier

http://tinyurl.com/buypx



Nice of them to draw the blue line at
http://nsidc.org/news/press/20050928_trends_fig1.html but take it away
and the trend is sideways apart from 1 anomaly - 2005.


"Trend is sideways"? Sorry, I can't figure out what you mean.

It's a pity they haven't been able to use a longer period of data. If they'd
gone back a bit further I suspect it would be seen that the blue line
should be a curve, not a straight line, with a maximum in the late sixties.

I see the Kara Sea still hasn't frozen over. Conditions in that area look
about a couple of months behind normal. Rest of N Atlantic ice conditions
are near minimum for 1966-2000.


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Graham Davis
Bracknell