Whatever David Rose may say in the Mail on Sunday, satellite images from high above the Arctic make it abundantly clear that there is in fact no “unbroken ice sheet [that] already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.”
Should further confirmation of that fact be needed, here’s our latest video analysis of the Arctic “refreeze” thus far:
The Great White Con – Update 1 from Jim L. Hunt on Vimeo.
As our video update points out, if you look carefully at the Arctic sea ice concentration maps derived from AMSR2 data, the large “Polar Polynya” visible is the region of the North Pole earlier this month seemed to be shrinking to nothing following the (provisional) NSIDC 2013 extent minimum on September 13th. However it now seems to have been given a new lease of life, as has the nearby “Barents Bite” of open water north of 85 degrees latitude.
That area of the Arctic is currently obscured by cloud, but here’s an image captured by the Aqua satellite earlier today of the “broken ice sheet” off “Russia’s northern shores”:
Image courtesy of NASA Worldview from from the Aqua satellite.
Can you by any chance spot any cracks and/or holes in the supposedly “unbroken ice sheet”? Can you spot “Russia’s northern shores” for that matter?
In conclusion, for the moment at least, please note that we are now collecting all these periodical updates together in one handy location.
Clouds are hovering over the North Pole and the adjacent polynya again today, but there’s still a clear view of the Laptev side of the Central Arctic Basin. Here’s a close-up: