Outlook for sea ice remains bleak

In April 2014, Arctic sea ice reached its annual maximum volume. It was the second lowest on record, according to calculations by the Pan-Ar...

March 2014 Arctic Sea Ice Volume 2nd lowest on Record

The March 2014 Arctic sea ice volume, as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Scien...

Arctic sea ice thickness falls by 2m in 21 days in some areas

For years,  warnings  have been raised about the dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice. Various posts at this blog have also analyzed the  expo...

Arctic Sea Ice Animation

Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume Above a tilted screenshot from the animation below, by Andy Lee Robinson, of Arctic Sea Ice minimum volumes re...

Arctic sea ice volume decline animation

Screenshot showing the exponential decline of minimum Arctic sea ice volume at the bottom end of the annual graphs To see a 3-D animation of...

Arctic sea ice volume 2012

Above images show Arctic sea ice volume data up to and including the year 2012. On the right, monthly data - click on the image to view data...

Albedo change in the Arctic threatens to cause runaway global warming

Mark Flanner et al. calculated in 2011 that snow and ice on the Northern Hemisphere had a combined cooling effect of 3.3 Watts per square me...

Saving the Arctic Ice (#1)

By Nathan Currier Greenpeace, Greenwashing and Geoengineering Nathan Currier,  senior climate advisor for  Public Policy Virginia There was ...

Arctic sea ice gone in September 2014

NSIDC have already made a preliminary call that September 16 was the date that sea ice extent was at its minimum in the year 2012. Volume i...

UK MET Office keeps downplaying significance of events in the Arctic

One of the most respected datasets on Arctic sea ice volume is produced by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System ( PIOMA...

An accounting is now due

By Nathan Currier Arctic Crisis: Far From Sight, the Top of the World's Problems Nathan Currier,  senior climate advisor for  Public...