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239 comments on DrumBeat: October 12, 2007

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RalphW on October 12, 2007 - 9:44am

Perfect timing to note that today the arctic sea ice anomaly hit a new record in excess of 2.5 Million square kilometres, although how much in excess is not clear, as the line falls off the graphs...

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

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/sea.ice.anomaly.timeserie...

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john macklin on October 12, 2007 - 10:34am

This will be the second time in 2 months they have to rescale the y-axis (sea ice anomoly) to include the most recent data. Nonlinearity is the name of the game.

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Comradez on October 12, 2007 - 5:01pm

Yeah, check out these scary pictures:

October 12th 2005
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/ARCHIVE/20051012.jpg

October 12th, 2006
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/ARCHIVE/20061012.jpg

October 12th 2007
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/ARCHIVE/20071012.jpg

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