Tag: Antarctic Sea Ice

During the most amazing run of of record Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Area ever, a comment at Bishop Hill reminds us of the recent prediction by “researchers“.

Sunday 29 June 2014

“The entire population of Antarctica’s famous emperor penguins could fall by a third by the end of the century because of disappearing sea ice, putting them at risk of extinction, researchers said on Sunday.”

” the main threat to emperor penguins’ survival comes from climate change which is melting the sea ice.”

“The loss of sea ice is reducing the supply of krill”

Disappearing Sea Ice? Melting sea ice? What loss?

In the history of satellite ice extent measurements there has only been 5 days where the extent is more than 4 standard deviations above the 1981-2010 mean.

Year	Day of Year	Month	Day	Extent	4 Standard Deviations For The Day of Year (According to R)
2014	216	8	4	18.60657	18.5632626616983
2014	259	9	16	19.91462	19.9051244314188
2014	260	9	17	20.05401	19.9052905021529
2014	261	9	18	20.11297	19.9308463421818
2014	262	9	19	20.12703	19.9879316730877

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 20 2014 – 1,554,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 262. Data here.

8th All-Time Record in 8 Days and “only” 14,000 sq km higher.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 19 2014 – 1,535,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 261. Data here.

Another 58,000 sq km. 7th All-Time Record in 7 Days.

610,000 sq km higher than the previous daily record.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 18 2014 – 1,500,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 260. Data here.

500,000 sq km higher than 2013’s record.

Amazing.