“Although in the past two years the Arctic summer sea ice shrunk to the lowest levels ever recorded”
And for just HOW long have we been recording this, compared, to, say, the cycles of Ice Ages?
The author isn’t reading what I’ve been reading. Artic ice levels are back to what they were in Feb 2007. but that wouldn’t suit their agenda, would it.
I’ve posted this before, but this seems like a good time:
Check out the temperature record over the last 400,000 years:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ice_Age_Temperature.png
The last 5 million years:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png
And the last 65 million years:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png
Note the general trend (colder) since the Himalayas formed (about 40 million years ago), which has been “enhanced” since the formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Note also that the Earth has been mostly too *expletive deleted* cold and dry, for the last few million years, to be “comfortable” for humans, except for brief respites (”interglacial periods”) such as the one we are lucky enough to be in presently.
Also note that we would appear to actually be overdue for the next downturn. (My own viewpoint is that “Man” MAY have had / be having an effect, and if so, it has been generally beneficial, compared to the natural cycle (cold).
I realize Wikipedia is not the final authority on these things (who is?), but, this data is generally accepted to be reasonably close...
And in case anyone wonders, yes, I am one of those Christians who can reconcile a very old earth with the story of Genesis.
