And now it's global cooling! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year

Daily Mail ^ | September 7, 2013 | David Rose

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.

The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.

Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.

The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship attempting the route was forced to turn back.

Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century – a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading.

The disclosure comes 11 months after The Mail on Sunday triggered intense political and scientific debate by revealing that global warming has ‘paused’ since the beginning of 1997 – an event that the computer models used by climate experts failed to predict.

In March, this newspaper further revealed that temperatures are about to drop below the level that the models forecast with ‘90 per cent certainty’.

The pause – which has now been accepted as real by every major climate research centre – is important, because the models’ predictions of ever-increasing global temperatures have made many of the world’s economies divert billions of pounds into ‘green’ measures to counter  climate change.

Those predictions now appear gravely flawed.

[Let_It_Be_So]

I agree with your conclusions, so this post is not about that at all. Rather, I wonder where you get the following statement:

“the truth is there is record new arctic ice..”

Yes, the recent reports show a 60% increase in the Arctic Ice Extent over the previous summer readings. However, that doesn’t mean “record new arctic ice”, just that there is more ice this year compared to last (which was quite low) and that the computer models had not predicted it. At least that’s my understanding of it based on everything I’ve read about the subject.

Did I miss something, or did you misunderstand something?