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Posted on 09/25/2025 8:27:34 AM PDT by Signalman
It has been a while since we have checked in on polar ice. I’m sure you remember the hysteria of a few years ago–Arctic sea ice is melting! Al Gore predicted, in 2009, that the Arctic would be “completely ice-free” by 2014. Far from having disappeared, there are still 1.8 million square miles of ice floating in the Arctic Ocean.
The annual Arctic sea ice minimum has arrived once again, and as usual, it provides far less drama than the media headlines would suggest. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea ice extent bottomed out on September 10th, 2025, at 4.60 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles).
That figure puts 2025 in a tie for 10th lowest in the satellite record, right alongside 2008 and 2010. But here’s the key point that gets lost in the breathless reporting:
* It’s been 13 years since the record low of 2012, and no new record has been set since.
* This year’s minimum is higher than the minimums of 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2023, and 2024.
* And despite Al Gore’s infamous prediction of an “ice-free Arctic” by 2014, here we are with nearly 1.8 million square miles of ice still in place.
To sum up: “[T]here has been no significant downward trend in September minimum extents over the past two decades.”
Meanwhile, ice in the Antarctic region has generally expanded in recent years.
Happily, the polar bears are doing fine too, as are the walruses.
Climate models are consistently wrong, as are climate predictions (not only those by Al Gore). Will there ever be accountability for the Left’s egregious errors with regard to climate? Only, I think, in the sense that most people have caught on and have tuned the hysterics out.
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You mean the Earth wont turn into a burning ball of fire?
Greta needs to take a convoy up there to check the thing out personally. I understand they’re great to pet.
When AlGore was born there were about 5,000 polar bears on the planet. Today, due to climate change, there are only 26,000 left.
how are the baby seals doing?
(Punctuation saves lives.)
Ted Danson said both coasts and most of Florida will be under water in 10yrs unless we DO SOMETHING! That was in 1988. Too bad he can’t go back to his old gig as Sam the bartender in Cheers. At least that was somewhat entertaining.
AOC can join him.
It’s hard to get good penguin in the arctic. I’ve suggested that the skinned carcasses of the baby seals oughta be loaded on C-130s, and dropped in polar bear country.
This scam is NOT due to egregious errors, the scam is due to huge LIES.
Ever wonder how these dumba$$e$ can know what the temperatures were in Africa 100 years ago? The liars calculate the COOLER temperatures using their climate models and they then put up headlines that say this is the NOW the hottest it's been in 1000 years.
The weather results today are NOT ALL due to weather stations. Where the liars don't have an airport or city weather station which will be hotter simply due to asphalt and buidings, they CALCULATE the missing temperatures using their climate models.
The climate models are ALL wrong but the scammers use them to generate their incorrect headlines. The scammers all need to be prosecuted and given long prison sentences for their conspiracy.
“”how are the baby seals doing?””””
I find them to be a bit chewy compared to Spotted Owls.
Yeah, that error popped out to me too. The rest of the humorous .gif seems factual, though.
Just fine I’ll bet.
Hopefully not for a very long time.
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