Sea Ice: Climate vs Weather

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Dan Moutal • 2 Comments

Via Tamino’s excellent Open Mind blog:

This is climate change:

This is weather:

Put them together, you get a death spiral for Arctic sea ice:

Filed Under: Beyond Planet Three

2 Responses to Sea Ice: Climate vs Weather

  1. Doug Bostrom says:
    September 1, 2012 at 10:09 am

    See also today’s post at Tamino’s OpenMind, which includes this stunning visualization:

    http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/thick_yy.jpg

    Now -that- looks like a serious problem.

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  2. Another Week of GW News, September 2, 2012 – A Few Things Ill Considered says:
    September 3, 2012 at 6:38 am

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