Re: Arctic ice record unlikely this year



On Jul 30, 9:21 pm, Mike Tullett <miketull...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We speculated a few months ago about the possibilty of a new low
record this summer, given the amount of first year ice.  It now seem a
record is highly unlikely.  This graph shows the rate of melting was
quite a lot slower in early July compared with last year.

 http://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaicenews/20080717_Figure2.png

The next page outlines the main differences between last summer and
the current one.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/index.html

This points out the circulation over the Artic is less favourable for
ice loss.

Yes Mike
I was prepared to wager Dawlish Fifty English Pounds -of course I
wouldn't have taken it for myself ; nope I would have donated to the
'Folk Made Deaf By Exposure To Tudor Hughes Trombone Playing ' fund.

Known as THTPDF. Someone has to stand up for these people.
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