Finding Meaning in Arctic Ice - Dot Earth Blog - Alarmist Andy Revkin - NYTimes.com

As you might imagine, self-professed climate skeptics (most climate scientists say they are, like any scientist, implicitly skeptical), have been crowing about how this year’s ice conditions are confounding both climate campaigners and climate scientists.

Flashback: Andrew Revkin Makes Clear His Skepticism of Global-Warming Skeptics

On Sunday, Revkin dealt with the sudden onset of colder temperatures in Sunday's "Skeptics on Human Climate Impact Seize on Cold Spell."

Former Cold War Foes Team Up to Probe [Allegedly] Warming Seas - NYTimes.com

It is a vicious cycle, scientists say. Once the ice shrinks, open water absorbs more of the sun's heat, melting more ice.  [Ok, so why didn't this alleged "vicious cycle" show up in the sea ice data for 2009 and 2009?]
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"My view is, well, CO2 is going through the roof. We know it's going to have an effect, and whether it's one degree or eight degrees, it's going to be something and it makes sense to try and put a curb on it."

Reuters [allows some truth to intrude on a standard climate fraud promotion article]

Once again this year, the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic Ocean along the coast of Siberia opened, enabling two German ships to navigate the passage with Russian icebreaker escorts.

Russian vessels have traversed the passage many times over the years, but the maritime fleets of other nations are showing more interest in the route as the summer thaw expands.

This year the Amundsen's Channel through the Northwest Passage also opened briefly, as it did in 2008, but the deeper Parry's Channel did not. Both opened in 2007.

Carcasses of dead walruses spotted on Alaska coast 

Up to 200 dead walruses have been spotted on the shore of Chukchi Sea on Alaska's northwest coast.

Federal wildlife researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey on their way to a walrus tagging project spotted 100 to 200 of the animals' carcasses near Icy Cape about 140 miles southwest of Barrow.

walrus: Definition from Answers.com

In the non-reproductive season (late summer and fall) the walrus tends to migrate away from the ice and form massive aggregations of tens of thousands of individuals on rocky beaches or outcrops. The nature of the migration between the reproductive period and the summer period can be a rather long distance and dramatic. In late spring and summer, for example, several hundred thousand Pacific Walruses migrate from the Bering sea into the Chukchi sea through the relatively narrow Bering Strait.[23]

2007: Global warming is blamed for walrus stampede deaths [this articles that a couple of thousand walruses die in stampedes in a typical year?]

A Russian biologist estimates that as many as 4,000 walruses out of a population of some 200,000 died this year, a death rate that's two or three times the usual number.