MASIE Arctic Oct 09 2014 – Big Gain

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Oct 09 2014  MASIE Update – Big Gain – Every Region Still With Ice Gained More Ice

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MASIE Arctic Ice Extent as of 2014-281

MASIE Central_Arctic Freeze.Melt as of 2014281

MASIE Northern_Hemisphere Freeze.Melt as of 2014281

Region 194 days ago End Last 193 Last 28 Last 14 Last 7 Last 3 Last 1
Bering Sea 697,324 0 -697,324 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic Sea 15,337 0 -15,337 0 0 0 0 0
Sea of Okhotsk 853,240 0 -853,240 0 0 0 0 0
Yellow Sea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chukchi Sea 966,006 335,001 -631,005 52,805 86,108 96,399 42,123 314
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,688,530 65,308 -1,623,223 50,872 36,064 12,430 16,039 2,278
Canadian Archipelago 853,214 683,668 -169,547 196,530 292,248 99,709 62,394 2,386
Hudson Bay 1,260,903 29,757 -1,231,146 16,972 28,309 19,382 19,382 2,578
Kara Sea 933,859 141,662 -792,198 52,816 75,915 69,649 24,314 6,854
Barents Sea 645,917 171,904 -474,013 33,741 50,010 33,013 8,234 10,550
Beaufort Sea 1,070,445 752,106 -318,339 18,871 90,446 79,678 58,062 19,931
East Siberian Sea 1,087,137 534,651 -552,486 -559 61,101 53,680 42,064 23,803
Central Arctic 3,221,921 3,172,976 -48,945 179,325 186,389 149,917 62,278 28,512
Greenland Sea 603,416 348,954 -254,461 152,450 91,727 78,556 72,701 37,205
Laptev Sea 897,845 114,502 -783,343 112,707 113,153 108,890 77,396 41,561
Northern Hemisphere (Total) 14,805,115 6,351,630 -8,453,485 866,802 1,111,471 801,304 484,986 175,973
NH (Average Loss per Day) -43,575 30,957 79,391 114,472 161,662 175,973

DRAX – Grotesque Environmental Charade

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The Big Crazy Forest killing DRAX is still destroying the environment.

Drax’s conversion to run half of its output on biomass means it will have to rely on wood from trees cut down in forests in America. The Sixties power station’s giant furnaces are being loaded with wood pellets carried 3,800 miles across the Atlantic in diesel-guzzling ships.

This grotesque environmental charade is being funded by government subsidies for the conversion of its coal-burning furnaces to biomass ones, which will put an estimated £23 on every family’s annual household energy bills for the next 13 years.

The vast generators of Drax are now living, humming, forest-destroying symbols of the shameful absurdity of European energy policies, and an extraordinary rebuke to this Coalition government, which claims, ever more ludicrously, to be saving the planet.

Already, the power station imports more than one million metric tons of wood pellets from the U.S. Much of this is derived from ancient deciduous trees in North Carolina.

Three months ago, 60 eminent American scientists wrote to Ed Davey pleading with him to stop ignoring the basic science and pressing on with a policy that was denuding their glorious forests.

They wrote: ‘Recent advances in science and accounting for pollution from different types of woody biomass have clarified that burning trees to produce electricity actually increases carbon emissions compared with fossil fuels for many decades and contributes to other air pollution problems.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2783061/LUNACY-The-Lib-Dem-energy-minister-switched-biggest-power-station-coal-wood-brought-diesel-guzzling-ships-U-S-The-result-It-costs-fortune-emits-pollution.html

 

MASIE Arctic Oct 06 2014 – Melting?

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Oct 06 2014  MASIE Update – Melting ?

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Region 191 days ago End Last 190 Last 28 Last 14 Last 7 Last 3 Last 1
Greenland Sea 603,416 276,254 -327,162 95,204 34,372 14,936 -24,807 -20,089
Beaufort Sea 1,070,445 694,045 -376,400 -40,146 40,759 -7,669 6,474 -12,207
Central Arctic 3,221,921 3,110,698 -111,223 141,898 176,868 49,648 49,401 -7,506
East Siberian Sea 1,087,137 492,587 -594,550 -34,954 33,804 38,419 9,535 -7,369
Kara Sea 933,859 117,348 -816,512 21,132 53,418 45,452 36,854 -3,257
Laptev Sea 897,845 37,106 -860,739 31,021 36,020 25,057 15,250 -2,012
Canadian Archipelago 853,214 621,274 -231,941 117,499 237,178 89,042 29,440 -88
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,688,530 49,269 -1,639,262 31,259 31,620 18,467 -191 0
Hudson Bay 1,260,903 10,375 -1,250,528 -9,974 9,513 8,927 0 0
Bering Sea 697,324 0 -697,324 0 0 0 0 0
Baltic Sea 15,337 0 -15,337 0 0 0 0 0
Sea of Okhotsk 853,240 0 -853,240 0 0 0 0 0
Yellow Sea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Barents Sea 645,917 163,670 -482,247 38,971 30,634 46,750 22,670 5,113
Chukchi Sea 966,006 292,878 -673,128 11,347 77,123 11,356 27,743 7,105
Northern Hemisphere (Total) 14,805,115 5,866,644 -8,938,470 403,256 761,308 340,385 172,369 -40,310
NH (Average Loss per Day) -46,798 14,402 54,379 48,626 57,456 -40,310

MASIE Central_Arctic Freeze.Melt as of 2014278

MASIE Northern_Hemisphere Freeze.Melt as of 2014278

MASIE Arctic Ice Extent as of 2014-278

Snowfall in Canada September 2014

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Map of snowfall in Canada for September 2014 from Environment Canada’s monthly summaries.

The size of the black dot in the top left corner represents 100cm of snow. MOUNTAIN VIEW VILLAGE got 80cm in September. Top 10 list is below.

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EC Canada Snowfall September 2014

Prov Stn_Name Snow(cm) Lat Long
AB MOUNTAIN VIEW VILLAGE 80 49.132 -113.594
NU ALERT UA 77.8 82.5 -62.333
AB KANANASKIS 60.6 51.028 -115.035
AB WILDCAT HILLS 34 51.269 -114.721
AB CALGARY INTL A 28.2 51.123 -114.013
AB OKOTOKS 19.6 50.729 -113.961
NU BAKER LAKE A 17.8 64.299 -96.078
BC FORT ST. JOHN A 15.6 56.238 -120.74
NU RANKIN INLET A 15.4 62.811 -92.115
AB BRULE BLACK CAT 15.2 53.35 -117.867