The jury may still be out on that one. It is not well known whether those temperatures were global, or were rather more medieval U.K. weather.

28th April 2003
15th April 2004
25th April 2005
19th April 2006
15th April 2007
25th April 2008
5th May 2009
3rd May 2010


The dates the Sea Ice Extent according to

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

fell below 13 Million km2

Not sure what the significance of this is supposed to be. The weathermen have told us, to those that listen, that freeze up was late, that there was this exceptional 50+ years record strong negative Arctic oscillation winds [one reason why it snowed in England and much of the normal winter outflow of sea ice did not happen into the Atlantic], that the temperatures for a large period were 10C less cold than normal in the Arctic, so whilst as we explained many many times on sea ice extent not being real ice, just the outline, within which there are regions of water, and that any quadrant that holds more than 15% ice is counted as covered, to quote your JAXA source:
... we also eluded many times on multi year ice decline [sea NSIDC/NOAA March chart up in this thread], thickness decline in general, or a few posts up, those doing the 2010 North Pole trek having to take the helicopter to get to 90 degrees north due open water and thin ice, this little cherry pick might mean nothing to you DA, but it does mean something to others, when then the melt season has set in:

April 18-May 3 Sea Ice Decline in km square + percent of Arctic SIE peak.
2010 -828,125 lost -5,75%
2009 -529,531 lost -3,67%
2008 -503,125 lost -3,47%
2007 -406,094 lost -2,92%
2006 -812,656 lost -5,90%
2005 -548.906 lost -3,89%
2004 -496.406 lost -3,47%
2003 -743.437 lost -5,01%

Looks like 2010 is a record speed decline in absolute km square and 2nd in % decline from peak, just when that copper plow came above the horizon.

It's cup cake thin ice. The oceans world wide show record monthly surface temperature anomalies... more vapor to go around with that, more clouds for feedback... you know your ~95% of the GHG's, DA!

I'm sure there is something ROFLMAO qualification coming like "There's more ice to melt", yes we saw that one offering in the missing thread, the question to oneself conveniently omitted: WHY? **

Can highly recommend to watch the Richard Alley presentation with your daughters on CO2 being the biggest control knob of our climate... 50 minutes of you lifetime. Like the laws of electrons flowing in your telephone cables, CO2 starts vibrating at 15 um in gaseous form and has all these harmonic sidebands [something also used in telecoms] handing the excess heat of to those water molecules. It only needs the sun to shine down on us to get them going, all 390 ppmv in the Atmosphere we breath.

** Of course Of course, what was I thinking, it must be renewed grinding that makes it disappear like snow for the sun... you know that snow per Rutgers, where the red areas indicate where it's anomalously missing:

Daily Departure - May 3, 2010 (Day 123)


PS: It must have started melting in anticipation of the Islandic volcano ash. On the other hand, SOI update of May 4 says La Nina is on a rebound, so that global cooling can resume in earnest.

Salute Tutti

Don't you love that insightful xxx-science:

April - Antarctic



In 5-6 months we'll know... if it rapidly turns La Nina reports from Point Resolute will be enduring blue skies over the Arctic for months to come.

Mark Twain I think said: Climate is what we expect, Weather is what we get.

While I personally have no background in climate science, 97.4% of climate scientists say this is real, true, and happening before our very eyes. (or as Dave Autumns et al claim: part of the grand Illuminati-Freemason-Bilderberg-Davos conspiracy)