Refers:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.365.south.jpg and
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.area.south.jpg

Also of note is northern hemisphere sea ice has rebounded to about 1,000,000 square kilometers from its 1979-2000 mean . The world sea ice loss is now approximately zero reduction from its 1979-2000 mean.

Refers:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.365.jpg
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg

Equally as interesting is a recent NASA study that concluded ” the rapid decline in winter perennial ice (northern hemisphere) the past two years was caused by unusual winds. Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the Arctic. When that sea ice reached lower latitudes, it rapidly melted in the warmer waters.”

Refers: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/quikscat-20071001.html

It may be non related factor however, solar cycle 24 seems to be slow to start and the minimum seems to correlate rather nicely with the rebound of sea ice.

Aqua and Argos and many other hard data programs are creating a basis for a TRUER understanding of our world and it’s climate. We will all benefit from the knowledge gained from these observations over time.

But whether that reality sinks in with the envirozealot deniers is a question for which science has no answer.

It is a religion to them and they need to have faith that the world is in peril and only they can save us.

I wonder why?

So natural forces can actully stop the ruination of the planet. How can that be. I thought Global warming was here to stay and we only had 10 years to fix it. Oh I forgot that was 10 years ago when they said that, or wasit last year orthe year befiore. it is always 10 years befoe we fall over the cliff. Just look at some ofthe articles from the 1930, or 1970s. It is always just enough into the future so we forget that it has been 10 years from the last prediction of “doom and gloom”.

Kind of makes you wonder doesn’t it??? Wasn’t it 35years ago that the next Ice Age was coming from these same “experts”. And weren’t we all going to be dieing of starvation by 1990??? If you can show me how these are valid predictions, then maybe I will listen to you. And if theycan tell me exactly what the weather will be like on July 20, I will listen to them, but they can not predict beyond a couple days of waht the weather will be, so why should I listen to them about 50 years from now.

And Ron Paul vote total percentage went to 8% just what is the percentage of wack jobs voting Republican these days anyway ?

As for you follies and apologies for the climate hysterics. We all believe that the Earth has warmed since the Little Ice Age and there was Global Warming. But that does not mean that we have had anything to do with it. Remember CO2 is .002% of the green house gasses, H2O is the #1 green house gas and we have no control over that.

The Sun cools and warms the Earth and goes in Cycles, just like we have the seasons, well so does the Sun. And from the indications that are comingo ut, we are in for some cooler temperatures. There have been very few Sunspots this year and right now there is none.

So get off your high horse and actually look at the science, not the hype by the environazis that think the end of the world is coming.

Effective with the February 2006 report, NCDC transitioned from the use of the Operational Global Surface Temperature Index (Quayle et al. 1999) to the blended land and ocean dataset developed by Smith and Reynolds (2005). The differences between the two methods are discussed in Smith et al. (2005).

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest on record in March, behind 2002, and the eleventh warmest on record for January-March year-to-date period. Temperatures were warmer than average across Europe and Asia, prompting the March 2008 global and Northern Hemisphere land surface temperatures to be the warmest since records began in 1880. La Niña, the cold phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, persisted in the equatorial Pacific, damping ocean surface temperatures. The global average ocean sea surface temperature (SST) in March was the 13th warmest on record. See the March global time series.
Mike on even the data you post I see
warmest
warmest
2nd warmest
warmest
warmest
warmest
warmest
warmest 22nd warmest

I think that there is not a lot of wiggle room there warmest means warmest
Of course some people will deny anything global climate change, 9/11, evolution, the age of the earth and they will always be able to find some “scientist” to agree with them.
NOAA is an agency of the Federal Government they say that global climate change is occurring ( and yes it has occurred before often with disastrous effects on life on the planet)
Believing that 6 billion people can not have any effect on their enviorment ? well that is a bit much to swallow.
The only when your position is only defended by one Republican presidential candidate and that one is Ron Paul you have to admit that denying global climate change is a bit out of the mainstream of even Republican thought

Hip Hip Hooray!

Start writing the speeches and preparing for the Inaugural Balls.