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Old 27-08-2014, 02:04 PM
julianh72 (Julian)
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Originally Posted by Renato1 View Post

Here are the predictions of Ice free Arctic by 2013

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/e...ver-expands-50
More cherry-picking!

The headline screams:
Al Gore Forecasted “Ice-Free” Arctic by 2013; Ice Cover Expands 50%

(Al Gore - not exactly the world's leading climatologist!)

But when you check the data - yes, summer 2013 had more ice than summer 2012 - but the trend is still clearly DOWNWARDS!

(And before anyone asks: The units on the vertical axis are "millions of square kilometres" - the volume / mass loss trend is MUCH stronger, in both summer and winter, because the thickness is decreasing significantly in both summer and winter.)
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