Saturday, March 29, 2008

Strangely thick ice for the Nenana Ice Classic

According to the data here, the Nenana ice hit a season-high 54.5 inches yesterday, which looks to be the highest recorded number since 1994.

Also see the ice-out dates listed here.

Note the earliest/"warmest" year was 1940, evidently after CO2 hit high levels when we all bought Hummers, McMansions, and cell phone chargers during the "booming '30s".

Note also that the latest/"coldest" year followed 24 years later in 1964, when C02 levels evidently plunged after the massive post-WWII economic depression and also after all the successful carbon offset trading, climate change bureaucracy, and CO2 regulation of the 1950s.

More on the Nenana Ice Classic is here.

1 comment:

John M Reynolds said...

Will anyone remember to check back in a month to see if the ice grows the 3.5 inches needed to tie the 1994 record and go higher than any record showing on that website?