Jennifer Marohasy » Sea Ice Extent Now Normal in Arctic

The latest satellite data on Arctic sea ice extent suggests that there is now a normal amount of sea ice in the Arctic – normal is defined as about average for the period 1979 - 2007.

How to Manufacture the Trend You Want | Climate Skeptic

Just by the strangest of coincidences, the large drop in 2005 occurs at the same time the number of data points in the data set drops down to 2! While most of the data has been driven by measurement of 40 or more reefs, the key two years that drive the entire conclusion come from just 2 reefs? This is the worst possible science. Most real scientists would have dropped out the last several years and probably would have dropped all the data since about 1990. Or else go out and get themselves some more freaking data. It is easily possible, in fact quite likely, that the 2005 drop was due to mix, as high growth measurement site were dropped out of the data set, leaving only lower growth sites in the average. These changes in mix say absolutely nothing about underlying growth rates.

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