If the Earth has a fever, as former Vice President Al Gore suggests, it's not showing signs of it.
According to Climateaudit.org's Steve McIntyre, global sea ice has actually increased.
"On a global basis, world sea ice in April 2008 reached levels that were ‘unprecedented' for the month of April in over 25 years," Steve McIntyre wrote on Climateaudit.org on May 4. "Levels are the third highest (for April) since the commencement of records in 1979, exceeded only by levels in 1979 and 1982."
That data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) suggests the effects of global warming aren't as dire as some media reports would have you believe. A segment on ABC's March 28 "Good Morning America" warned melting sea ice is endangering the global warming alarmists' favorite mascot, the polar bear.
"[I] realize what I need to do is try and tell these stories through National Geographic magazine by using animals such as polar bears to hang this campaign on, to say that if we lose sea ice in the Arctic, and projections are to lose sea ice in the next 20 to 50 years, we ultimately are going to lose polar bears as well," National Geographic magazine photographer Paul Milkin said to ABC's Sam Champion.
According to the NSIDC data, sea ice had declined in 2007 to record lows, but showed a rebound in 2008, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
McIntyre, along with Ross McKitrick, debunked the validity of the "hockey stick" graph used in a journal article by Michael Mann, which described the increase in Northern Hemisphere mean temperature. The two claimed Mann's graph was based on flawed calculations and data defects.
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Well obviously the testers
May 6, 2008 - 10:32 ET by HelenSWell obviously the testers were too indiscriminate in their sampling!!! Didn't they get the memo that told them to collect their evidence in carefully documented and approved locations?
What bozo decided that any random honest variety of samples would do!? If they're not carefully controlled, they will in fact come up with truth and then where are we?! Out of funding, agenda in shambles, egg on assorted faces, and severe dents in bank accounts/future wealth/image/reputation etc.
Exposing a person's lies is so...so...unfair! What counts is what you desperately want to be true (for whatever nefarious reason). Facts are just a nuisance!
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" - Shakespeare
You might want to note
May 6, 2008 - 10:42 ET by 10ksnookerThat sea ice has only been able to be accurately measured by satellites which were first placed in orbit in 1979. A 30 year period is nothing when you are 4.5 billion years old ... Who knows what the sea ice did during the little ice age, the last real ice age, or ...
What man knows about the Earth's planet, you could write abook. What we don't know would fill a library.
We know what sea ice did during the "little Ice age" (1600-1900)
May 6, 2008 - 11:30 ET by c5thenWe have records of explorers and regular people to use. For instance it was common for the Delaware River and Hudson Bay to freeze over completely in the winter. It was well documented that at times people could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island. Conversely, during the medieval warm period (1100 - 1600) we know that Europe didn't see too much snow in the winter and that England was just fine for growing wine grapes.
So we know that relatively recently, the climate has been both much warmer and much colder than it is currently. Why is it that we think the cycles would change or stop just because we are here to notice? That seems HUGELY arrogant and egotistical to me.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.
Nah, the Earth just got
May 6, 2008 - 11:04 ET by taterNah, the Earth just got more cowbell. Sorry couldn't resist.
I can't wait for the day Algore is finally exposed and humiliated in the court of public opinion. That day can't come soon enough...unfortunately I may be standing in a foot of snow in May.
"They need to have a course in college called common sense and everyone should take it. Problem is there isn't too many people that could pass or teach it." -my grandfather
Bye, Bye AGW thoery
May 6, 2008 - 11:26 ET by dboThis story puts far yoo much emphasis on facts. Facts don't mean anything to Church of Global Warming members. It' kinda like that dog whistle thing.
There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld, French writer and moralist (1613-1680)
Sea Ice
May 6, 2008 - 11:48 ET by merlin61OK Mr. Gore, you better get busy and stop that
volcano in Chile. Look at all that ash thats
spewing from it. Must be causing a lot of
carbon footprints. You idiot. Oh, that's right
its George Bush's fault, and so is the cyclone
in Myamar,oops, I forgot about all the earthquakes.
worth reading comments
May 6, 2008 - 12:12 ET by Giles WinterbourneIt is worth reading comments on the climateaudit thread: questions about inaccurate wording of the headline, lack of providing all the data, misreading of findings......
Antarctic Sea Ice is Increasing
May 6, 2008 - 22:32 ET by PopularTechThis is a very well documented trend:
Antarctic Sea Ice at Record High (The Reference Frame)
Antarctic Sea Ice Increases over Past Two Decades (Space.com)
Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Records in Oct. (The Heartland Institute)
Satellites Show Overall Increases In Antarctic Sea Ice Cover (NASA)
The Antarctic deep sea gets colder (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource