On Sunday, 4 September 2016 19:30:14 UTC+1, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 09:26:37 -0700 (PDT)
Alastair wrote:

On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 11:35:16 PM UTC+1, Lawrence Jenkins
wrote:
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/at...-at-north-pole

That was the summer before the fabled winter of 1962/63

A bit like this year!

ftp://ftp-projects.zmaw.de/seaice/AM...R2_3.125km.png
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/mea...meanT_2016.png
https://sites.google.com/site/arctic...entration-maps
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/analysis/nh.xml
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/am...2_previous.png

Yes, except that the extent of the ice this year at the moment is half
what it was in 1963.

In 1963 following the errors in the design of the Russian Hydrogen bomb the SSW was even more sudden and a hell of a lot more extensive. However for reasons best known to themselves both sides seemed to have felt it a benevolent idea that we not be told about conditions after that thing.

And so the data from military bases in the Arctic has only recently become available. One wonders why the alarmist haven't been all over it by now.

At least the ones not arcticually working for the obscure I **** on Korn Krop Kollective:

https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpr...eat-prices.png