It’s a mystery. Why has Arctic sea ice cover roared back so quickly over the last few years? Nobody knows – not one scientist on the planet can tell you, writes Willis Eschenbach in a short essay on the climate site Watts Up With That? It might be noted, of course, that there was no shortage of explanations when there was a cyclical downturn, mostly to do with humans having something to do with it. Ice melting at the Poles is still one of the crucial supports for the entire command-and-control Net Zero political agenda.
The above graph shows changes in Arctic sea ice cover during the satellite era. Values are anomalies from the 1991-2020 average. Eschenbach notes that since around 1990, people have been talking about how human-emitted carbon dioxide is reducing the amount of Arctic sea ice. When it started dropping very fast, there was talk we’d passed a ‘tipping’ point from which the ice would never recover. Over this time, noted Eschenbach, predictions of an ice-free Arctic ocean abounded.
Old habits die hard. Despite the impressive recent ice recovery, talk of these tipping points – mostly an invention of so-called ‘attribution’ computer models – are ubiquitous. In his recent Frozen Planet II agitprop series for the BBC, Sir David Attenborough made a number of model-produced references to the Arctic being free of summer sea ice by 2035.
According to Eschenbach, there are more mysteries down in Antarctica.
Here Eschenbach poses the question – why did the Antarctic ice pack, unlike the Arctic pack, start increasing quite rapidly around 2008? Nobody knows, he says. Why did it differ from the Arctic by plateauing from 2010 to 2015, but then mirror the Arctic by dropping rapidly, and then turn around and start rebounding? You guessed it – nobody knows.
Finally the global situation.
Why has global sea ice followed this pattern, while CO2 continues to rise in the atmosphere, he asks. The politically-motivated alarmists constantly tell us the ice will soon all disappear. According to Eschenbach, not one climate scientist on the planet predicted these large changes in sea ice.
The author concludes:
Here’s the strangest part. Despite the failure of the many predictions of an ‘ice-free Arctic’, despite the falsified claims that we’ve passed a ‘tipping point’, despite the fact that the reasons for the curious and unexpected changes in the polar sea ice cannot be explained by anyone and the changes weren’t predicted by anyone – climate change scientists still insist that they can tell us what the global temperature will be like in the year 2100.
Of course, there are many sceptical scientists who seek answers to the cyclical nature of global ice outside the restrictive confines of ‘settled’ climate science. As the Daily Sceptic has often reported, short-term movements of ice are affected by often incalculable atmospheric heat exchanges, ocean currents and many other natural climatic variations.
The geologist Professor Ian Plimer recently noted in an essay published by Quadrant, there have been six major ice ages and each started when there was far more CO2 in the atmosphere than now. Taking the longer view, Plimer said that we are currently in an ice age initiated 34 million years ago, the current interglacial started 14,400 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere, and we were at the peak of this interglacial 4,000-7,000 years ago in the Holocene Optimum.
Two American geologists recently found that over half of the Arctic’s glaciers and ice caps that exist today did not exist or were smaller 3,400 to 10,000 years ago. At the time, atmospheric CO2 ranged between 260 to 270 parts per million, compared to the current 410 ppm. At the peak of this interglacial Arctic warming, temperatures were noted to be several degrees warmer than today. Change in the size of glaciers and ice caps over the last few centuries “is but a partial return to a former period of much greater warmth”, the geologists suggest.
Political tactics designed to scare entire populations into following an anti-growth Net Zero future pay little attention to such trends. Global warming ran out of steam a couple of decades ago, and the latest satellite data for November is almost certain to extend the current eight year, one month pause. Instead a ‘highway to hell’ message is broadcast, based almost solely on invented stories attributing bad or ‘extreme’ weather to the activities of humans. Despite the overwhelming evidence from the past that global temperatures can rise and fall rapidly, an entire climate industry, backed by almost unlimited transfers of wealth from often poor to rich people, has sprung up forecasting Armageddon if there is a rise of a few parts of a degree centigrade.
It’s definitely all a bit of a mystery.
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Less sea ice: global warming
More sea ice: climate change
Your dog shit on the couch: global warming + white nationalism.
Your daughter says she’s non-binary: totally normal
My dog shit in the back seat of my truck.
What does that mean?
He rides in the bed with a leash attached so he doesn’t jump out.
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AWG, don’t be obtuse. /s
Better lock down society, throw free thinkers in a gulag, control every aspect of peoples lives so the fed can destroy it with the push of a button; just to be safe since we don’t know.
That’ll bring back the ice.
Yep, that’ll bring back the ice, and the ONE BIG THING we know for certain is that the world needs more ice. Sure, sure, in the past, people thought things were nicer when they had LESS ice, but they were idiots. All they knew was that food grew easier, life was better, animals were more prolific, and it was easier to heat the houses. Now, of course, we know that MORE ice is better! My, God, we have become brilliant!
Much easier than all of that — carbon credits — more taxes for the ‘green’ projects …
Net Zero is a scam designed to kill off as many human vermin as possible.
Except they’re not vermin. The scum administering it are. Mass compliance keeps them at the top. Mass resistance kills them off instead.
It’s still November and we’re already having ice fishing mishaps:
Admittedly, Beltrami County, MN is somewhere up by the North Pole. The story doesn’t mention it, but the sheriff’s deputies were actually Santa’s elves.
https://videos.whatfinger.com/2019/09/22/my-gift-to-climate-alarmists-climate-alarmists-debunked/
No amount of evidence will penetrate the demoralized indoctrinated iZombies:
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THE FOUR STAGES OF IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION – YURI BEZMENOV (1984) (CONDENSED INTERVIEW)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/lUqu0DBih3MT/ (Abbreviated)
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YURI BEZMENOV: DECEPTION WAS MY JOB
https://www.bitchute.com/video/FYh95aP8M5ti/ (Complete)
Ever notice that none of these pointy shitheaded overeducated pee pants mention the active volcanoes in Antarctica? They may cause some melting when active and are the actual cause of the “ozone hole” sometimes seen over the South Pole. Just like the Covid BS, actual science may not be introduced into the “ice” fantasies debate.
Just as they ignore solar heat when it’s hot, they ignore 2,000 degree lava’s effect on snow and ice. They are buffoons at best.
Plus, the Mount Saint Helens and Mount Pinatubo eruptions each put more gloop into atmosphere than all of human industrial revolution in the past few centuries.
But hey – trust the political science.
I keep reading about the desire to put crap in the atmosphere to cool the planet down and then volcanos go off and we don’t hear anything from these people.
Right, the Atlantic Fault continues under the Poles and becomes the Pacific Ring of Fire; it is esp hot at the west end of Antartica where the Sea Ice is melting (duh). No mention of Tonga Volcano Jan2022 that was huge and has been censored from the MSM news; it will drop Southern Hemisphere temperatures several degrees for a couple years.
There was also the ‘discovery’ about 4 or 5 years ago of a string of volcanoes in the northern Atlantic Ocean … but that couldn’t possibly have explained the ‘warming trend’ there.
Did anybody look at the left side scale?
“0.5% anomaly”
Oh my gawd, only 99.5% remaining!
There is more to sea ice than area, also volume, and age. Even NASA admits things have been pretty flat the last 10 years. A big drop was in the early 2000’s compared to just before. Gotta luv these predictions 50-80 years out when they can’t predict next year or the next 5 accurately.
The reality.. sea rise of 0.1 inch a year, not an emergency. A (small) chunk of the ocean cliffs just fell off taking out the ped path where I live (Santa Cruz). From the press you would think the world will end. Of course they now want to make the adjacent street 1 way and the other a bike/ped lane although that would greatly increase neighborhood traffic then trying to go the other way. They don’t seem to mention that part of the cliff is just beyond the 300 ft of armored coast wall protecting mansions. The wave water has to go somewhere.
You can see the sea wall in the later part of this news video. The path break is just past it. https://www.ksbw.com/article/large-chunk-of-sidewalk-caved-in-off-the-popular-west-cliff-drive-in-santa-cruz/42079067
For information about the effects of solar activity on earth’s climate — and the rhythmic nature of it for countless millennia — this site has lots of information …
https://electroverse.co
I like tony heller videos. I’m more worried about cooling than warming. TPTB like to change graphs/history to support their agendas. it’s supposed to snow here in the next two days and I will remind my kids as we shovel snow that al gore said they would never see it.
It is all BS. The Arctic has been ice free every summer since 2015. The polar bears all drowned and Algore was right.
Fact is, you could walk to Siberia just on the floating corpses of polar bear cubs.
Their mothers shouldn’t have let the doctors give them the shot.
but all the coastal cities are flooding because the computer algorithms and Al Gore say so (except Venice, Miami, New Orleans etc which are sinking)
A pretty good source for all things NOT the consensus.
https://www.climatedepot.com/