Arctic Ice Melt, Temperature Scare and the Facts

September 25, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to ICECAP:

Hawaii Reporter, Tuesday September 21, 2010

Questioning the Arctic Ice Melt and Temperature Scare

BY JACK DINI –Whatever we hear about the Arctic these days we should keep in mind that most information is based on satellite measurements of Arctic sea ice since 1979. With a little over thirty years of data many scientists and environmentalists use decreases in Arctic sea ice as a sure sign of man-made global warming. A little over thirty years of data is hardly a blink of an eyelid in terms of geological time. As Richard Lindzen, a prominent global warming skeptic and professor at MIT puts it, “this is a primitive field where nobody has much idea of anything.” (1)

There are some other issues that cloud the temperature data from the Arctic. They include an expanded definition of ‘Arctic,’ extrapolations rather than accurate temperature measurements, and the simple fact that the Arctic has been warmer in previous times….(Full Story)

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I know, I know. What does someone from Hawaii know about the Arctic?!  Well, perhaps he is far enough away from it to be able to take in the view of the whole forest instead of just being fascinated by a few trees.  Besides, he is a reporter who presents the findings of quite a few well-known and well-respected climate scientists.

Certainly, those scientists are skeptical of the veracity of politically-correct climate alarmism, but are they wrong just because they still have open minds and objectively report the facts, all of the facts and nothing but the facts?

A note about the article by Jack Dini.  It does contain one misperception:

GISS estimates its Arctic temperatures from land-based thermometers that each supposedly represents the temperatures over 1200 square kilometers.” (3)

Although quoted correctly from the source article, that statement is incorrect. It should read: “GISS estimates its Arctic temperatures from land-based thermometers that each supposedly represents the temperatures for a distance (or for a radius) of 1200 kilometers.”  That is the distance from the southern boundary of Idaho to Edmonton, from Kansas City to Winnipeg, or from Atlanta to Toronto. (More at GISS Polar Interpolation)

Aside from that, it is now coming to the end of September.  A lot of the crops in this part of Alberta are still standing and far more of them have not yet been combined.  After the late seeding we had this year and the cool summer to boot, there was not much global warming this year.  We sure could use some of that global warming.

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