Category: National Snow and Ice Data Center

Looks like Wynne Parry at LiveScience might have the same habit I do - maybe she looks in rather frequently on the mesmerizing day by day oscillations in the slope of a graph one finds at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder. Such federal outfits as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA pay for it while the University of Colorado runs it. This year's been weird. In late April the extent (not the volume, but the area) of Arctic ice reached a high for recent years - all the way up to the average for the years 1979-2000. I seem to recall a few bloggers of doubtful minds...