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Title: Arctic Ice Extent Reaches Record January Low
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Capital Climate
URL Source: http://capitalclimate.blogspot.com/ ... ice-extent-reaches-record.html
Published: Feb 3, 2011
Author: NSIDC
Post Date: 2011-02-03 09:02:49 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 24710
Comments: 44
Arctic sea ice extent averaged over January 2011 was 13.55 million square kilometers (5.23 million square miles). This was the lowest January ice extent recorded since satellite records began in 1979. It was 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) below the record low of 13.60 million square kilometers (5.25 million square miles), set in 2006, and 1.27 million square kilometers (490,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average. Ice extent in January 2011 remained unusually low in Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait (between southern Baffin Island and Labrador), and Davis Strait (between Baffin Island and Greenland). Normally, these areas freeze over by late November, but this year Hudson Bay did not completely freeze over until mid-January. The Labrador Sea remains largely ice-free.
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#1. To: go65, no gnu taxes (#0)
I see arctic was spelled correctly in this article................
Your level of discourse is apparent when all you have is comments on minor typos a week later.
I'm just ribbing you in the spelling error, we all make them. However your claims about arctic sensors did demonstrate a serious lack of knowledge.
My point remains. If you think there are Arctic sensors away from human populations in remote highland areas that give true readings of of land temperatures, then describe where they are and how they compare to the sensors in the coastal populated areas. The Grrenalnd Nuuk weather station temperature measurements are extrapolated out over hundreds of sqaure miles.
The urban heat island charge has never been proven by a scientific thesis. It is in fact a talking point that dates back a while now that has been used to try and dismiss data. I recall hearing about it in the 90s - the claims were that the earth was not getting warmer only that instruments are in cities and they get their temperature wrong because concrete and tarmac absorb heat, etc. It's a baseless thesis. But it has the ring of 'truthiness' to it.
The urban heat island effect obviously exists, so I don't know what your point is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
The point is climate scientists know how to compensate for it. It is not skewing the data.
They drastically changed the way it was compensated for in 1999 (if it is still compensated for at all) when there was little evidence of any global warming. I've posted the charts PROVING this.
No they didn't as I showed you already this week. you keep posting the same bunk.
James Hansen, the head of NASA's climate unit and one of the worst of the alarmists, said truthfully in 1999: The U.S. has warmed during the past century, but the warming hardly exceeds year-to-year variability. Indeed, in the U.S. the warmest decade was the 1930s and the warmest year was 1934. That didn't get the warmists where they were trying to go, so they have now changed the data by eliminating or drastically reducing the urban heat island effect. NASA now shows very different data for the period 1880-1999 from what it published in 1999. This animated GIF shows how the alarmists changed their own data to create the false impression of a climate crisis:
#17. To: no gnu taxes (#16)
I previously debunked those charts, they appear to confuse north american and global sea ice and aren't sourced. It appears that the author simply made them up. You can keep posting them, but they won't get any more accurate.
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#3. To: no gnu taxes (#2)
Your level of discourse is apparent when all you have is comments on minor typos a week later.
#5. To: go65 (#3)
However your claims about arctic sensors did demonstrate a serious lack of knowledge.
#6. To: no gnu taxes, go65 (#5)
#7. To: Godwinson (#6)
The urban heat island charge has never been proven by a scientific thesis.
#8. To: no gnu taxes (#7)
The urban heat island effect obviously exists, so I don't know what your point is.
#9. To: Godwinson (#8)
#14. To: no gnu taxes (#9)
They drastically changed the way it was compensated for in 1999 (if it is still compensated for at all) when there was little evidence of any global warming.
#16. To: go65 (#14)
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