Earliest Satellite Images of Antarctica Revealed (climate, warm, ice, recorded)

[Cambium]

They found this 1964 image to be the greatest ice extent until September 2014 this year broke that record as well.

Earliest satellite images of Antarctica reveal highs and lows for sea ice in the 1960s | NOAA Climate.gov

Long-lost images taken from the first Nimbus satellite are revealing new information about what the world looked like from space before the beginning of the modern-day satellite record in 1979. While NASA never really lost the data (it was stored in federal archives) they did lose the ability to access it for nearly 40 years. Recovered images of Antarctica showed a greater extent of sea ice than ever measured before by scientists—but the record was short lived. In an odd twist of fate, the new record was broken in September 2014, only weeks after the discovery.

The yellow line shows sea ice extent in September 1964 when it maxed out at about 19.7 million square kilometers (12.2 million square miles)—the largest ever recorded until this year. Only two years later in 1966, the winter maximum sea ice extent had dropped nearly 20 percent to reach a record low. The red line shows maximum sea ice extent exactly fifty years later when the Antarctic set a new record high for daily extent of 20.11 million square kilometers (7.76 million square miles) on September 22.

[Cambium]

Almost sounds like they were trying to find a time that had more ice than now. LOL!!

They finally found it in the "federal archives", then weeks later it was shot down since Antarctica had even more ice than that. LOL!!

I can just hear them, We gotta keep looking, there's been more ice than this, I just know it. LOL

OF COURSE THERE HAS! Just like there's been warming of the globe and melting of the Arctic as well.

Our data records are comical and Miniscule

[Ariete]

Try the Arctic Ice sheet next.

[Glacierx]

The arctic ice sheet is currently at its highest level in 13 years. Still, the trend is down since the 1970s.

[RiegelDerpy]

This picture makes every eco-socialist cry.