<DrumBeat: July 13, 2006 The Oil Drum "If there was nothing to be worried about, then there would be no (oil) price increases.">

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memmel on July 13, 2006 - 2:27pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

Posting agian.

Just to take your minds of peak oil if this is real the Artic Ocean just melted.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.365.jpg

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/arctic.jpg

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Agric on July 13, 2006 - 2:57pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I see what you mean, Memmel, something has suddenly started to eat the arctic ice at a rate of 1 million square kilometres per day 2 days ago (as of 18:00 GMT Thursday 13th July version of the current.365.jpg).

But you exaggerate! There are 6 days of arctic sea ice left, plenty of time to call Superman...

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TrueKaiser on July 13, 2006 - 6:56pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
my guess is that he already moved his fortress of solitude to the south pole.
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memmel on July 13, 2006 - 4:17pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Funny the graphs are fixed now ...
They were broken for days.

I think we know were some readers of theoildrum work.

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Agric on July 13, 2006 - 4:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I can verify they have changed in the last 2 hours. You didn't believe me when I said it was time to call Superman, did you?

I did look at the photo archive, too. Comparing 2005 and 2006 I'd say that 12th July 2006 most closely approximates to 20th July 2005 and that the annual minimum looks to be around 15th september 2005.

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memmel on July 13, 2006 - 4:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Hopefully superman will fix the link on the Candian Archipelago image map thats broken.

 :)

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JolieBlanc on July 13, 2006 - 10:39pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Well, looking at the graph, it shows a 365 day record. And if you look back at last July, we were at exactly the same amount of ice then as we are now.

Looks to me like seasonal melt, nothing more than usual, or very slightly increased at most. (I am not a numbers junkie. This is just an observation from the graph.)

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smekhovo on July 14, 2006 - 12:33am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The place to look on that site is the archive of daily maps
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/archive.html
You can see there that while the whole Arctic is not going to melt in six days, what is happening now is unprecedented.
Hudson Bay will be entirely ice free in a couple of days, that never happens till late August. The White Sea was ice free already in mid May, never happens until mid July. And so on.
Their sums of area melted from the graphs don't add up for some reason.
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