What Do We Know About Arctic Sea Ice Trends
Arctic ice loss prior to the 1950s has been erased
“Lansing State Journal
10 Mar 1955, Thu – Page 39Ice Melts In Arctic
Earth Becoming Warmer, Says Explorer; Oceans May Rise 100 Feet
BOSTON, March 10 (INS)—A famed Arctic explorer reported to- day the world is getting warmer— but ‘that’s not an unmixed blessing.
Adm. Donald MacMillan, an 80- year-old veteran of 30 trips to the Arctic, said the huge areas of ice in the far north are melting, bringing warmer weather. But he added that the process may also bring a flooding threat to some parts of eastern seaboard cities.
MacMillan explained in an exclusive interview:
“There are now six million square miles of ice in the Arctic. There once were 12,000,000 square miles. ‘“Another thing, almost every glacier, with one exception, has retreated—going back into the hills— is smaller than it was.”
The 1985 DOE Report showed that Arctic sea ice declined until the century low in the mid-1950s, and then started to increase again.
The gain in ice during the 1960s and 1970s has also been erased.
This chart combines the 1985 and 1990 graphs, and shows that government agencies now start their sea ice graphs in 1979 at the century maximum.
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Editor’s note: one of the commenters on Heller’s article wrote “So the ste strategy to erase the medieval warming period that was exposed with the climate gate files is being systematically used in all domains to erase and rewrite history – and not a single mainstream scientist considers this a problem.”
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Arctic sea ice comes in many forms: large blocks, smaller blocks, slush, etc. In the Winter, it is frozen largely solid. In the Summer, it melts somewhat.
One can find charts from Spanish/Portuguese fishermen from the 1500’s delineating the northern coastline of Canada. How did the Basque fishermen ‘guess’ this ‘frozen’ coastline? Did they have Google Maps?
“Knowledge is good”. – Founder of Faber College, film ‘Animal House’.
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