What If The Arctic Ice Sheet Grew By One-Million Square Miles And No One Told Us? A million square miles (1,000,000) is really BIG. The biggest state is Alaska and it’s only 663,267 sq mi. Why hasn’t Al Gore and Mike Mann and friends told us about this? The Alarmist exclusion of data that contradicts their hypothesis is part of their one-sided propaganda program to hype their views. The Alarmists never mention the natural large variability of the Arctic ice sheet over time or the major influence of the “little ice age†that ended in 1750 with a natural global warming trend that still continues today. The natural variability can be clearly seen by the million more square miles of ocean that are covered in ice in 2013 than in 2012, a whopping 60 percent increase, a dramatic deviation from predictions of an “ice-free Arctic in 2013”. Is a 0.8 degree change in 150 years a crisis? How much of those 0.8 degrees is natural variability? There has been negligible change in global temperature for the past 17 years. Is the claimed man-caused 10% of atmospheric CO2 causing measurable changes in global temperature? Perhaps the debate is not over.
Lars Hagen
Moneta
