Sea Ice - greater than average (for three weeks now)

University of Ilinois ^ | 4/16/2012 | Universtity of Ilinois

[Kinsingmonster]

Sea Ice extent still greater than average (third consecutive week)

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg

[Kinsingmonster]

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg

[BuffaloJack]

Greater or lesser sea ice is just a mother nature thing. Nothing any human or group of humans can do about it.

[onedoug]

“I think global warming probably means extreme weather of all kinds....” --Rachel Maddow

[NELSON111]

There are two problems with the sea ice anomalies (besides the obvious...there is an agenda driving the "lower than normal crowd"):

1) The data is only from the satellite era, 1979 - present. That is a very short time, geologically speaking.

2) Who arbitrarily decided what "0" was? Who decided was was "normal" and why? Who's to say what we have now isn't 2 standard deviations over the 2K year average?

No one...that's who. And there in lies the problem.

[samtheman]

This story will get below average coverage in the media.