Sea Ice Stretch Run #3 « Climate Audit
The true "tipping point" was 4.45 billion years ago when the collision that created the moon and tilted the earth's axis occured.
The true "tipping point" will occur again on September 21st, when the sun sets below the horizon and stays there for six months just like has in the Arctic every year for the last 4.45 billion years.
The average temperature at the North Pole is -24.5C. So there is a little melting in late August and early September just like there is every year. ALL the ice will return in short order when the temps fall to -30C to -45C for the next six months, just like it has every year.
I imagine there has not been a single year in the last 4.45 billion years, when it has not snowed at the North Pole in the winter given there has always been six months of darkness.
A little melting in August will never be a tipping point.
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