Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Are sea ice levels making a comeback?

A key component of the case for global warming has been the allegedly dwindling volume of sea ice. But according to the University of Illinois's Arctic Climate Research Center, sea ice levels are now equal to those of 29 years ago, making a dramatic rebound over the last three months.

Whether this is part of a trend appears to be uncertain, but it does seem to fly in face of more hysterical claims that the polar ice cap would melt entirely.

Wonder if we'll see the mainstream media pick this up and run with it like they did with stories about those poor polar bears seen swimming out at sea unable, so the reports went, to find any ice.

Oh, and don't expect to see this is Al Gore's next movie.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting that the University of Illinois web site does not make this claim. See:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/

Anonymous said...

WINTER sea ice has had a number of ups and downs in recent years, but the other seasons show a downward trend over a considerable amount of time. See:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seasonal.extent.1900-2007.jpg

The blogger Martin is citing only mentions Winter sea ice, but ignores the other seasons. See the University of Illinois Arctic web site.

Anonymous said...

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seasonal.extent.1900-2007.jpg

Part of the URL got cut off on the previous post.

Anonymous said...

It did it again. I will break it into lines that interested people will have to paste together.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/
cryosphere/IMAGES/
seasonal.extent.
1900-2007.jpg

Anonymous said...

I wonder why Martin has not commented on the above.