Comments on: New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/2009/04/29/new-milepost-for-arctic-sea-ice-extent/ Dedicated to the balanced discussion of global warming Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:02:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: tim maguire http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/2009/04/29/new-milepost-for-arctic-sea-ice-extent/comment-page-1/#comment-23770 tim maguire Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:34:18 +0000 http://globalwarming-factorfiction.com/?p=618#comment-23770 How much does this tell us about the recent history of arctic ice? Since it is all floating ice and it gets buffetted about by winds and currents (as well as growing and shrinksing with the seasons and weather patterns), can the existence/absence/thickness of ice over any particular spot, even the exact North Pole, tell us much about the overall ice cover (which I assume to be the part that matters)? As you know, this is coming from a person who is fairly skeptical. When I read last summer about the North Pole being "ice free for the first time", my BS indicator immediately started screaming, but it does here too. Isn't this also a case of exaggerating the data? How much does this tell us about the recent history of arctic ice? Since it is all floating ice and it gets buffetted about by winds and currents (as well as growing and shrinksing with the seasons and weather patterns), can the existence/absence/thickness of ice over any particular spot, even the exact North Pole, tell us much about the overall ice cover (which I assume to be the part that matters)?

As you know, this is coming from a person who is fairly skeptical. When I read last summer about the North Pole being “ice free for the first time”, my BS indicator immediately started screaming, but it does here too. Isn’t this also a case of exaggerating the data?

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