Looking around for sites about the current Arctic Sea ice extent in numbers, I ended up spending a good hour looking at a site from those who very much believe in AGW and it feels as if I just entered a different reality. The site is fairly professional with many contributors listed including Professor Peter Wadham, the man who since a number of years now every year announces that this will be the year that the Arctic will be ice free.
_http://arctic-news.blogspot.ch/
They make their position quite clear early on about who is to blame:
Good to have that clear as for a moment I feared that it would be pinned on the flatulent cows. :P
Just 6 weeks ago, they said on the site that all the arctic sea ice could be gone by September.
_http://arctic-news.blogspot.ch/2017/08/arctic-sea-ice-may-well-be-gone-by-september-2017.html
Again a site that likes to use the climate normals from 1961-1990 as a baseline, so as to increase their arguments. And the graph that they use don't match other maps that are around such as from from DMI and Nansen. And regarding the warm spots then one can always cherrypick localised areas where it is 'abnormally' warm and then just extrapolate.
They also think it is likely that global temperatures could rise by 10° celcius by 2026.
Here is a graph they produce:
So the temperature rose just over 1 degree Celcius from 1750 until 2012 and then they want you to seriously consider the idea that in the following 14 years the temperature will rise by 9 degrees!?! In order to make the case, they add new elements that have never played a role according to their own admission and then it is just a matter of fiddling with the curve until the desired alarmist result manifest. Next step is to feed it into a model and bingo, a model now predicts that the globe will heat by 10° Celcius by 2026.
In the post they even add this:
Interestingly after an hours visit to their site and reading some of their articles, it felt very similar to reading some of the SJW sites. Completely disconnected from reality and very ideologically driven.
_http://arctic-news.blogspot.ch/
They make their position quite clear early on about who is to blame:
There is no doubt that people's emissions are causing global warming and that this is causing more extreme weather to occur across the world.
Good to have that clear as for a moment I feared that it would be pinned on the flatulent cows. :P
Just 6 weeks ago, they said on the site that all the arctic sea ice could be gone by September.
_http://arctic-news.blogspot.ch/2017/08/arctic-sea-ice-may-well-be-gone-by-september-2017.html
Arctic sea ice may well be gone by September 2017
The Arctic Ocean is warming up fast and this is melting the sea ice from below.
Sea surface temperature anomalies are well above 8°C (14.4°F) in several parts of the Arctic Ocean.
The image on the right shows sea surface temperature anomalies from 1961-1990 for the Arctic (60°N - 90°N) on August 2, 2017.
Global sea ice extent is at a record low for the time of the year, as illustrated by the graph below, by Wipneus. Lower sea ice extent means that less sunlight is reflected back into space.
Again a site that likes to use the climate normals from 1961-1990 as a baseline, so as to increase their arguments. And the graph that they use don't match other maps that are around such as from from DMI and Nansen. And regarding the warm spots then one can always cherrypick localised areas where it is 'abnormally' warm and then just extrapolate.
They also think it is likely that global temperatures could rise by 10° celcius by 2026.
Here is a graph they produce:
So the temperature rose just over 1 degree Celcius from 1750 until 2012 and then they want you to seriously consider the idea that in the following 14 years the temperature will rise by 9 degrees!?! In order to make the case, they add new elements that have never played a role according to their own admission and then it is just a matter of fiddling with the curve until the desired alarmist result manifest. Next step is to feed it into a model and bingo, a model now predicts that the globe will heat by 10° Celcius by 2026.
In the post they even add this:
Such a rise could take place even more rapidly, as discussed in earlier posts.
Interestingly after an hours visit to their site and reading some of their articles, it felt very similar to reading some of the SJW sites. Completely disconnected from reality and very ideologically driven.