"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
news:20140923085248.18f0eb6b@linux-omey...
Although _scientific_ discussion of climate change has long been allowed
for in this group's constitution, I realise that some people are bored
by it and that is why I prefix the title with "[CC]" in the same way
that "[WR]" and "[OBS]" were introduced so that such threads could be
filtered out by uninterested parties.

Any road up, here's the link:

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/20...nimum-reached/

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. Mail: 'newsman' not 'newsboy'.
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they're open". -
Lord Dewar (1864-1930)

I am just back from a Royal Society meeting on the Arctic sea ice. There was
one talk on the Antarctic sea ice. The reason given for its expansion was
meteorological, not physical! It appears that sea ice grows, in both the
Antarctic and Arctic during cyclones. With the warmer seas due to AGW, the
winter cyclones in Antarctica are becoming more intense. The air temperature
over the continent has not increased so the very cold katabatic winds from
there are even stronger since they now replace warmer air around the
continent. It is these cyclonic winds which are growing the ice.

It should be possible to confirm this as the Antarctic ice has grown quickly
over the last few days and there should be reports of storms in the regions
where the ice has grown. Does any have know where that info. can be found?

Cheers, Alastair.