http://www.physorg.com/news97907842.html

Good thing, the net -10% volumeteric displacement from melting ice melting in the Arctic Ocean is the best way to combat the ice melt of the Greenland icesheet which is much smaller volumetrically than ice in the Arctic Ocean. The only question remaining is how much the ocean levels will drop (my calculations predict about a 0.10" drop) & if that will endanger coastal eco-systems anywhere in the world........Paul

Gee lets look at the much larger Arctic Basin:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM...m.region.1.html


Gee no reduction, hmmm how's that?

How about Siberia?

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM...m.region.9.html


Gee, no reduction either.

Bufort?

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM....region.11.html

Greenland sea?

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM...m.region.5.html

Canadian Archipeligo?

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM....region.12.html



Gee a little UP?

Bering Sea?

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM...m.region.2.html

Up as well?

Chucki?

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM....region.10.html

Sheeesh.

Arthur

Not sure I buy that Arthur. Site "claims to be using NOAA data" but no other references. Presents an impression which contradicts many other published data, or is it just your colouring above. In fact, evidence is there are a lot more months at a lot more sites with a 30 yr trend to less ice than to more. If GW not happening, I'd expect these to be even.

Its a reputable site (put out by the Univ of Illinois)

They provide a contact for any questions:

You'll note all the data is ARCHIVED so you can explore it at will (what I wouldn't give if ALL climate sites didn't do the same)

You'll note that the published Barents sea ice data on the site agrees with the Physorg story.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IM...om.region.6.jpg



My point wasn't that the story was wrong, but once again, selected data is used to make a GW point. The Arctic Ice cover is actually doing quite well THIS year. It is tending to be a bit thin over on the Russian side though, as two seas adjacent to the Barents sea are also down a bit (the Kara sea and the Laptev sea) but not as much as the Barents.

Arthur

Art, can you do math of any kind at all? You dished up somebody else's graphs which you probably can't even read. Let me help you out here.....The TOTAL volume of water in the world's oceans is ~ 1.3 x 10 to the 9th cubic kilometers. Ice in Greenland is 10% of world total ice which is ~30,000,000 cubic km. Now, do the math & tell us what the percent of Greenland ice to Total Ocean Water Is....then we can go on to the next step, but before we do that I first need to know what your math skills are.........