[More from Lewandowsky] Misplaced email in the climate wars? Not again, please!

[comment from Barry Woods] perhaps you could clarify whether the paper justifies the sweeping generalisation ofthe Telegraph headline, or not.

History Books can Explain the Recent Record Low of Arctic Sea Ice

During the 1930’s the North Atlantic was in such a phase, and it was reported that the Soviet ice-breaker ships were able to sail waters that had never before been open for travel, the ship Sadko even managed to sail within 500 miles of the North Pole. And the average coal shipping season at Spitsbergen, Norway almost doubled in length from 95 days from 1909-1912 to 175 days from 1930 to 1938 due to the lack of sea ice.