There was a time when global warming/cooling was called the weather. In those days it was thought of as a natural cycle. Tell your grandkids or else this knowledge will cease.
The ice loss this year in the East Siberian & Beaufort sea was caused by a persistently strong stubborn area of high pressure allowing for weeks on end of clear skies even the AGW scientists have acknowledged this much.
Meanwhile on the other side of the world Antarctica has reported record ice extent, but that's an inconvenient truth I suspect.
I keep wondering when these articles will mention prominently that it has long been believed that Marco Polo navigated the Arctic from China over to Greenland in the 1200’s... thus the fabled “Northwest Passage”...
Climates change and weather happens. Imagine a sensory deprivation tank. That’s what it would be with out variables.
Pretty damned dull.
As to the idea that we can modify where the climate is heading by recycling a beverage can or changing a light bulb shows that PT Barnum was right, he just underestimated by a factor of ten.
They can't even tell me if it's going to rain this Saturday.
But, but, but it's a CRISIS! There hasn't been this much melting since, uh, er, 1979......