Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Another Record

[lostinblue 1,989]

Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, with the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year). Please, nobody tell the mainstream media or they might have to retract some stories and admit they are misrepresenting scientific data.

National Public Radio (NPR) published an article on its website last month claiming, “Ten years ago, a piece of ice the size of Rhode Island disintegrated and melted in the waters off Antarctica. Two other massive ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula had suffered similar fates a few years before. The events became poster children for the effects of global warming. … There’s no question that unusually warm air triggered the final demise of these huge chunks of ice.”

NPR failed to mention anywhere in its article that Antarctic sea ice has been growing since satellites first began measuring the ice 33 years ago and the sea ice has been above the 33-year average throughout 2012.

Indeed, none of the mainstream media are covering this important story. A Google News search of the terms Antarctic, sea ice and record turns up not a single article on the Antarctic sea ice record. Amusingly, page after page of Google News results for Antarctic sea ice record show links to news articles breathlessly spreading fear and warning of calamity because Arctic sea ice recently set a 33-year low.

Sea ice around one pole is shrinking while sea ice around another pole is growing. This sure sounds like a global warming crisis to me.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-sets-another-record/

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

It's an inconvenient truth for the alarmists, that their so-called "science" has failed.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Antarctic sea ice set another record this past week, with the most amount of ice ever recorded on day 256 of the calendar year (September 12 of this leap year). Please, nobody tell the mainstream media or they might have to retract some stories and admit they are misrepresenting scientific data.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-sets-another-record/

Well look, artic sea ice set a record too!!

Arctic sea ice extent reaches record-shattering minimum

I don't expect everyone to agree in these threads, since the concept itself is still at issue, at least in respect to the causes. I really do wish, though, that anyone who chooses to participate in these topics at least understands the simple statistical concept of arithmetic mean. Global mean sea levels have risen, just as global mean temperature has risen, just as global mean CO2 concentration has risen. Mainstream science does not need to retract anything.

I'm posting all that above because it's getting to that time of year again. I anticipate the "8 inches of snow in my driveway - what happened to global warming" topics any time now.

[Dakine10 5,452]

It's an inconvenient truth for the alarmists, that their so-called "science" has failed.

I'd post a graph to set you straight, if not for the fact that I know you don't look at them.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I anticipate the "8 inches of snow in my driveway - what happened to global warming" topics any time now.

Interestingly, the same folks that will post these kinds of threads soon dismiss the hottest and driest summer across the country ever as "weather". But when there's a snowflake hitting the ground in the winter in upstate New York, then Global Warming is positively dead.