In 1971, the UN said that humans were melting polar ice and it could raise sea level by 7 meters.
Time Magazine reported a 12% increase in Arctic ice in that same year.
Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since.
TIME Magazine Archive Article — Another Ice Age? — Jun. 24, 1974
How did they know it was melting in 1971?
We didn’t have data before 1979, right?
But, that ‘Time’ article is saying that satellite data was used in 1974 to ‘prove’ a 12% increase from 1971?
How can that be?
Simple, 1979 was cherry picked to be the start of the record, because it was a MAXIMUM. Using what satellite data there was and other records show that what’s going on now is not that uncommon and shows all the signs of being cyclic in nature.
Unfortunately the source of this posting at Paul Homewood’s is only in the printed version of the Daily Telegraph.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/07/27/cold-english-summers-in-the-60s/
NORSEX has decide to freeze all ice graphs. They can’t bear the pain of reality
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic
However good ol danes are ,proud to show reality hahah
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
I said in a previous post that I believed the folks at “arctic-roos” would probably update their graph just a couple of days after DMI, but now I have to agree with you, 5 days of “delay” is a bit too much.
Pain of reality…. that’s good, next to a ‘swirling vortex of evil” is the polar vortex. I imagine that they are working feverishly on some new spin. Like global warming causes colder temperatures. Thanks for the links.
If the Arctic was melting back in the 1970s why has the mass of ice been the same or greater since 1958 when ‘records’ first began ? So the shrinking-expanding-shrinking-expanding-and the ‘sameing’ is caused by Co2 ? Wow stupid is now science.
The global warming crowd wanted to push the scam back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but there was way too much cold weather around at that time for it to gain traction. Then the 1990’s were relatively mild and they were able to attract a following. But Gaia is failing them miserably again. CO2 must not be much of a greenhouse gas to be begin with.
In the cold, there’s little gaseous H20 about, but the “normal well-mixed” dose of CO2. Result: wide wild swings of diurnal temperature at the poles. In the warm tropics, lots of H2O gas in the air, and the same (average) CO2. Result, narrow diurnal swings and moderate temperatures.
Conclusion: CO2 is ineffectual and irrelevant for predicting temperature.