Blacklocks (paywalled) – Arctic sea ice grew 27 percent last year, the Department of Environment reported yesterday. The figures contradicted claims by then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna that the Arctic “is literally melting”…
h/t Ontario John
Misleading headline. (Did not go past the paywall.)
I’m against the politically motivated alarmist climate porn as practiced by our politicians and media but facts do matter.
Arctic (and Antarctic) sea ice extent is one of the few climate related measurements that’s credible and easy to access. Satellites have measured ice extent since 1979. You can read daily results (including yesterday’s figure) here:
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
As you can see the results vary a great deal seasonally.
The big picture is that ice extent declined rapidly from 1979 to 2012 but has partially recovered since. There is debate about whether or not significantly lower figures have been experienced earlier, in the Viking era for example.
You have to admit though our media and science is skewed towards the global warming clap trap as it is where their funding comes from.
Ops, mostly to be more politically correct.
And so? Sea ice is a variable. Summer and winter. There once was an ice sheet a mile or so thick that extended into the US, midway through Missouri. Good thing all those autos and factories warmed the planet up back in 12,000 B.C.
Nah. It was all that cow flatulence. One blast and all the ice melted just like that.
Forty years of data out of 4.5 billion years of the earth being around is hardly big picture.
junkie,
Actually satellite measurements of Arctic ice began around 1973. Why do they not show satellite ice extents back to 1973 you ask? Maybe because Arctic ice extent was less in 1973 than in 1979 and one would not want to dilute the message of Arctic ice doom. The First Assessment Report (FAR) from the IPCC showed a graph of Arctic ice extents back to the start of satellite coverage and one can clearly see the upward trend from 1973 to 1979 and the downward trend thereafter. Having a local peak rather than an inexorable trend hints at a alternate possibility of natural cycles in polar ice extents.
“The big picture is that ice extent declined rapidly from 1979 to 2012 but has partially recovered since.”
Thus proving that it is NOT caused by the human emission of so-called “greenhouse gasses”, since those emissions did nothing but rise during that entire time period.
Slightly off topic but I came across this today. A glaring engineering mistake on wind turbines. Holy Sh*t!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2H7ZxkiMA
That is just a tiny piece of the multitude of flaws wind turbines have.
Hydro electric has a major one as well with centrifugal force and friction.
They have to operate at a low flow speed as the friction bouncing back from the housing acts like a break.
Tried to show inversion technology but they sooner waste vast sums on terrible technology.
Actually, the very same ECCC report quoted by Blacklocks actually disproves Blacklocks’s (and Kate’s) own misleading headlines, and affirms McKenna’s basic point. For example, page 5: “Key Findings – Figure 1: Average sea ice area, Northern Canadian Waters, 1968 to 2020 – Between 1968 and 2020, summer sea ice area in the Northern Canadian Waters declined at a rate of 7.5% per decade”
Read it yourself here: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-indicators/sea-ice.html