Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 07 2014 – 986,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 249. Data here.
Wow. The old Daily Record is Smashed By 290,000 sq km.
Only 37 days had more Antarctic Sea Ice Extent. One of those days was in 2006. All the rest were in 2012 and 2013.
Over at the LA Times they are making excuses for why there is record breaking sea ice in Antarctica.
One of the excuses is that “global warming is strengthening circumpolar winds”. There is very little evidence that “global warming” would actually increase wind. Any change in winds is tenuous and could be cyclic.
However, the trouble with that excuse is that an increase (or change caused by cycles like the AMO/PDO etc) in circumpolar wind in Antarctica would prevent snow accumulation and cause ablation of the ice surface which would then appear as “melting” and it would be nothing of the sort.
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n5/full/ngeo1766.html
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 30 2014 – 959,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 241. Data here.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 29 2014 – 970,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 240. Data here.
After falling below 2013’s record setting pace for a few days, 2014 is now back in daily record territory. 159th daily record for the year.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 28 2014 – 892,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 239. Data here.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 27 2014 – 856,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 238. Data here.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 26 2014 – 917,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 237. Data here.
First time in a month 2014 isn’t setting a daily record.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 25 2014 – 1,026,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 236. Data here.
2014 is 8,000 sq km higher than 2013.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Aug 24 2014 – 1,125,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 235. Data here.
157th Daily Record
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