30 Days Of Above Normal Global Sea Ice

6 Responses to 30 Days Of Above Normal Global Sea Ice

1. gator69 says:

   March 22, 2013 at 2:35 pm

   The Mayans are snickering…

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2. henrythethird says:

   March 22, 2013 at 2:36 pm

   Well, Tamino has jumped in before, and actually made a chart showing the difference in Arctic and Antarctic trends (and it’s the trend that’s always more important):

   http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/anom2.jpg?w=750&h=483

   Here, he shows that while Arctic ice anomaly has dropped, the Antarctic ice anomaly has been ABOVE zero since about 1992 – about 20 years – over 240 months.

   So while the “believers” use the “xxxth consecutive month with global temperatures warmer than the 20th century average” as a benchmark, why don’t they use the long-term Antarctic ice anomaly as a poster child of a warming world (the “xxxth consecutive month with Antarctic ice anomalies greater than the 20th century average”)?

   Try figuring out the odds of THAT happening…

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3. Gamecock says:

   March 22, 2013 at 6:51 pm

   Quick, someone measure sea level. If global ice is above normal, sea level should be down.

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4. A C Osborn says:

   March 22, 2013 at 6:54 pm

   Steve, I don’t like that trend very much, can you extrapolate it out to 2100 to see if it shows a new Ice Age.
   You could then apply for some Non Big Oil cash to study it some more.

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5. Federico Manchini says:

   March 22, 2013 at 8:02 pm

   Actually both events (NH and SH ice extents) are probably 100% normal and have occurred probably thousands if not millions of times before sorry folks no AGW again! Unfortunately we only live to 100 years max so we don’t see…

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   • Will Nitschke says:

     March 22, 2013 at 10:15 pm

     Yeap, people leap to conclusions when they put a magnifying glass on a data set that tends to vary a lot from year to year anyway.

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