John Cook has a brief update on what’s going on with the ice in Greenland, including this graph:
Figure 1: Greenland ice mass anomaly (black). Orange line is quadratic fit (John Wahr).
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Such a clean, mathematically elegant fit to an impending catastrophe.
Mark: Nicely put. I think that graph is a startling example of how the simple purity of data can take on very ominous meaning in context.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
– Bertrand Russell
In this graph the current steep fall in ice volume for the Arctic is unprecedented in its recorded history…its nearly vertical!
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/ArcticSeaiceVolume/images/BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrent.png
Lou, a bit of cheer….
Mock The Week, News Reel, United Nations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA2rRqrFkOs
1) Interesting that yearly ice loss begins in January starting in 2006. I guess once Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay freeze over there is no nearby source of water vapor.
2) Also interesting that the signal to noise ratio is so high. Most AGW datasets are noisier — temps rising one year, falling the next. So does Greenland (and (Antarctic) ice mass loss somehow “integrate” noisily rising surface temps?
3) What Mark (no relation) said @1.
Mark you really said it there.