There is much joy in Teaparty-ville that Arctic ice loss may fall short of a new minimum this year. Back in the reality-based world, there’s not much in the way of good news to celebrate:
Prof Andy Shepherd, from Leeds University, said: “Now that we have three years of data, we can see that some parts of the ice pack have thinned more rapidly than others. At the end of winter, the ice was thinner than usual. Although this summer’s extent will not get near its all-time satellite-era minimum set last year, the very thin winter floes going into the melt season could mean that the summer volume still gets very close to its record low,” he told BBC News.
Yay for reversion to the mean!
We may get to see first hand the test of the Ewing and Donn theory of glaciation trigger.
From Wikipedia
@ ^ machintelligence : i think that has likely been happening for a few years now actually?
“Snowmageddon” and so on?
See also : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_lYbp2zxVg