Sea ice animations

Arctic Sea Ice: Animation of Thirty Years « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

One could be forgiven to think the following:

* there isn’t much of a polar ice cover “shrinking trend”, but rather a lot of expansions and contractions, plus a freakish small configuration in 2007
* the 2008 cover is very simiar to 2000’s, apart from an ice-free area East of Novaya Zemlja
* one can almost sea the warm water flowing in through the Bering Strait, sometimes reaching East as far as Banks Island (1987, 1998)
* the “losses” in sea ice in the Baltic and northwestern Siberia may or may not relate to a change in data processing between 2003 and 2005