"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 17:27, Dawlish scribbled:

On Sep 16, 8:17 am, Graham P Davis wrote:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2010/091510.html

"Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent on 10
September. The minimum ice extent was the third-lowest in the satellite
record, after 2007 and 2008, and continues the trend of decreasing
summer
sea ice."


Heh, unfortunately, Arctic sea ice took one of those unexpected dips
yesterday and achieved a new 2010 low! The difficulties of calling the
low eh? To their credit, the NSIDC said "Arctic sea ice *appears* to
have reached its annual minimum extent on 10 September." It hadn't.
*))

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

Depends which graph you use and whether you go by extent or area. I was
going by this one -
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.arctic.png
-
and I was thinking about calling the minimum this morning as we'd had a
couple of days when the graph was rising. Also, the open areas within the
ice were freezing over and ice was beginning to advance down the E
Greenland
coast, but was beaten to the punch by NSIDC. However, that would have been
a
minimum around the 13th rather than the 10th. I see it's gone up again
today
so I think that's probably it for this year.

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: "newsman", not "newsboy".
"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." -
Carl
Sagan


Hey Graham as an ardent confirmed advocate of the folly of man and the
disaster of AGW could you advise me on the alternative energy sources that
you use? Not to late to learn.