Dawlish wrote:
On Mar 18, 9:13 pm, "Lawrence Jenkins" wrote:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/i...timeseries.png

That wasn't in the script. Arctic Ice really on the up despite record
global high satellite temperatures. Nothing is what it seems
apparently

It's a snapshot Lawrence..........it's due to synoptics and it has
nothing to do with any script, or any trend. You just don't learn.

The last snapshot you posted, exactly 10 days ago was the day of the
probable 2010 maximum and it has decreased, albeit slowly and
erratically, since then. You did say that Arctic Ice was heading
towards the mean. It wasn't, it isn't and the likelihood of it
reaching the mean at any time this melt season is as remote as the
MetO giving you a sinecure (look it up). The present state of Arctic
sea ice is completely typical of this time of year at the end of the
freezing season. Well below the 30-year mean - as it will be at the
end of the melt season. The only question is how low will the 2010
minimum be. So there. *))

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

And the extent of the ice maximum shows little correlation with
that year's minimum.
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Col

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