Arctic ice extent is the most average it has ever been!
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png
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2010: 13183750 km2
2009: 13162031 km2
2008: 12877969 km2
2003: 12874063 km2
2005: 12755000 km2
2011: 12682813 km2
2007: 12633750 km2
2004: 12494063 km2
2006: 12448750 km2
average: 12790243 km2
2005 was the most average. This year 107 000 km2 is below average. 5 years are above and only 3 year below. Now is much closer to the minimum than maximum extent of this time of year.
Who cares?
looks like that 2009 and 2010 pushed the average up! And now we’re doomed because of it. These death spirals are so cruel. They give you a reason to hope that man will survive, and then POW!! They snatch it away again. @%#&*!!
Jussi
You guys can’t admit defeat.
When does the Serreze “death spiral” kick in? I`m getting a bit fed up waiting for all these tipping points to tip. YAWN!!!
When the ‘life spiral’ kicks in they will raise their arms in utter frustration.
“Arctic ice extent is the most average it has ever been!”
It’s not the most average even if you define “ever” as since 2002
It might be if you go back to 1920.
But probably not.
can’t you take a joke Steve?
Please apply the same argument to global warmers that are a broken record, everything being worst in 20, 30, 40, 70, 100, etc. years..
What was the extent then?
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/SEAICE/
Comparisons between now and pre-satellite are clearly not hugely meaningful as the authors point out.
Please note that large portions of the pre-1953, and almost all of the pre-1900 data is either climatology or interpolated data and the user is cautioned to use this data with care
But it’s a death spiral Paul, don’t forget! The end is nigh!