[Steve_Seattle]

"On average it appears to be balanced..."

It is not balanced, but even if it were, both hemispheres are trending radically in the opposite direction of what would be expected at this time of the year. That's why I'm wondering if they are using bad data.

[infool7]

Maybe the earth’s magnetic poles flipped and the program that collects the data is reversed.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Eh, one is growing, one is shrinking.

Add them together and divide by two and there you have it. Balanced.

I trust that God has it under control.

[Robert A Cook PE]

No.

Over the entire year, the Antarctic sea ice reflects about 1.7 times the energy that the Arctic sea ice receives.

Now, if the two were equal, you could “almost” use the global sea ice to make some sort of year-to-year comparison.

But they are NOT equally effective at either receiving solar energy nor reflecting solar energy. The large continuing increase in Antarctic sea ice is much more important to the earth’s heat balance than the little bit of Arctic sea that everybody worries about and propagandizes about.

[momincombatboots]

For the last two or three years.. it has been cold later in the spring. Snowed in several eastern areas this weekend. I have worn sweatshirts in cool July evenings for at least three years. There was record late ice in one of the great Lakes last year.iirc. I noticed years,ago, a lot of the local Temps were recorded far higher than my outdoor thermometers read. In 2000, I wore shorts in September, sweatshirts these days.