Sierra Club Canada: Arctic sea ice refreezing allegedly "went dismally" this year; ice likely to be gone in six to 30 months

Bad news: Arctic icecap cracking up | Sierra Club Canada

As a result of last summer’s record sea ice-loss, the winter ‘refreezing’ process went dismally and the surface area and thickness never recovered. The situation is frightening with the beginning of the 2013 melt season only a few weeks away.

Policymakers and governments around the world are still using outdated climate models and are therefore operating under faulty presumptions. The best example of this is their maintaining that the Arctic will retain sea ice until sometime between 2040 and 2070, ignoring the devastating 2012 summer loss of sea ice (roughly 30%!). For the record, they’re wrong - completely wrong! Six to 30 months is a much more likely scenario. Maintaining this naïve assumption will not only go down in history as colossal climatology #FAIL
...Paul Beckwith is a PhD student with the laboratory for paleoclimatology and climatology, department of geography, University of Ottawa.   [Via WL]

February 2013: Most Ice Gain Ever Recorded | Real Science

With a few weeks of growth still to occur, the Arctic has blown away the previous record for ice gain this winter. This is only the third winter in history when more than 10 million km² of new ice has formed.