More pain for poor StavAss -Arctic Sea Ice Extent Currently Second-Highest In 15 Years, And Growing…

Darn that Co2. Making the climate warmer than colder and making complete chumps of us man made climate change nutjobs!

Arctic sea ice data is in plain view of the world’s media, yet outlets would still rather quote activist-scientists than show an unambiguous chart. Articles of “catastrophic ice melt” still pepper the global news feeds, even as signs point to a cyclical shift in the northern polar region.

I’m being consciously naive here. I’m fully aware that the media’s job isn’t to inform; rather, it exists to propagandize and to push the agendas and narratives of its backers. Still, I can’t help but wonder, when a placard-brandishing climate alarmist yells “the end is nigh!”, who exactly is it that they’ve put their trust in? Who told them that the sky is falling? I ask because you do need to be informed of the ‘climate crisis’ in order to discern it — your own senses aren’t enough. People aren’t opening their front doors in the morning to an ‘existential emergency’, they aren’t retreating back inside, calling their bosses and saying “I wont be coming in today, you know… ’cause of the climate”. This is supposed to be ‘catastrophic global warming‘, remember? Not ‘random, cherry-picked extreme weather events’? For what is billed as a ‘worldly cataclysm’, this warming sure is illusive, periodic and localized.

The power of propaganda, I guess.

The blind acceptance of sheep.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Is Currently The Second-Highest In 15 Years, And Growing

The poster child for AGW is of course the Arctic. For years, dire tipping point deadlines of an “ice free Arctic” have been prophesied by pedestalled climate ‘experts’, and for years, dire tipping point deadlines have uneventfully passed us all by.

See: Decades Of Failed Tipping Point Prophesies

And: Years Of Failed Arctic Sea Ice Predictions

In a further blow to the credibility of the climate ambulance chasers, there is, as of Nov 17, significantly more ice in the Arctic than there has been in recent years — the difference is stark.

This week, Arctic sea ice is approaching 10,000,000 km2 — the second highest ice extent of any of the last 15 years. Furthermore, the years 2008 and 2005 are on course to be eclipsed in the coming days/weeks, as are many from the early-2000s and mid/late-1990s — this means that 2021 will soon claim the title of ‘the highest Arctic sea ice extent of the past two decades’ (since 2001).

In addition, extent is now comfortably above the 2011-2020 average, and, by next week, is expected to have taken out the 2001-2010 average, too, according to NSIDC data.

Also worth noting is that ‘extent’ is actually highly variable and susceptible to changing wind patterns, etc. A more reliable metric to use when trying to determine the health of an ice sheet is its thickness or volume.

According to the latest data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Arctic sea ice ‘volume’ has been on something of a tear in recent weeks — it is now tracking above all recent years (black line on the below chart), and shows no signs of abating

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ARCTIC SEA ICE

You are talking here of 1997  when there was a particularly  intense El Nino situation leading o an extra-ordinary heat wave hitting North America, Europe and Russia  - which obviously contributed  to melting of arctic circle snow.    Since then the average temperature went back to normal averages and  there has been no real increase in average temperatures in those geographic areas sine hen.   .      

Again one must ask what is the purpose of this hoax. Again the answer is control and using fear to herd the sheep in right direction.

As I’ve frequently pointed out the temperature  gains prior to 1945 constitute 50% of the supposed 1.2 degree increase in temps since the Industrial revolution.  Carbon had no effect, it was still too low in 1945.

The remaining 0.6 degree increase could be from:

1. Accumulating solar effects.

2, Man made CO2

3 The many measurement changes ‘scientists’ have made to ‘improve’ the data.

Or a combination of all 3. In any case even the full 1.2 degrees can’t explain all the natural phenomena attributed to CO2. These are almost all natural variations.

Now we may be seeing solar take a step down, will that convince the ‘scientists’ that the only thing keeping us from absolute zero of minus 273 degrees, can cause variations of a degree from time to time?

Don’t count on it.

In the meantime there’s good news and bad news. The golf season has ended early in Chicago on the bad front. But future generations will be happy that there is more oil around because it is the magic elixir that allows 7 billion people to live on the planet.

Earth is in a constant cycle of fluctuation...has been for billions of years...humans have only been around for a few thousand years in the greater scheme of things...only a few decades as a a significant factor...yes, we should be careful of our impact on the environment,  but "Climate Change" is probably more political ideology than actual scientific fact...follow the money...