Are There Long-Term Trends in The Start Of Freeze-Up And Melt Of Antarctic Sea Ice?

As with the Arctic, the finding in this data is that there is no clear evidence of a change in the start of freeze up or the start of the melt. Unlike the Arctic sea ice, of course, the Antarctic maximum sea ice areal coverage has actually tended to be increasing in recent years...

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Anna Keenan of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition stressed that while governments argued, young conference participants were all agreed that rich nations needed to make deep emissions cuts. “All we need now is for our political leaders to…make the plans that we are already ready, willing and prepared to implement,” she said.

But there were signs patience was wearing thin. “If things don’t change over the next week, we’ll be more disheartened and frustrated and we’ll scale up our activities!” warned Ferris.

Romm unintentionally gets something right, listing enviros and Brian Williams separately from "rational people"

On the one side are people who think that clean coal means coal plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) for the vast majority of the carbon dioxide they emit (or that coal isn’t clean under any plausible definition of the word “clean”). Since there are no commercial utility-scale CCS plants, that makes clean coal clap trap. This group consists of

* Virtually all enviros, like the the “Reality” Coalition (see “Memo to Gore: Don’t call coal ‘clean’ seven times in your ad“)
* NBC’s Brian Williams (who called clean coal “an oxymoron. Wishful thinking“)
* My boss at DOE (who used to practice saying “clean coal” in front of a mirror so he wouldn’t burst into laughter)
* Most rational people