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After 2005 the global ice area went down, but by 2010 it had
recovered. From there to 2015, it was above average. And since 2015
global ice area has dropped precipitously but then recovered back to
average. Finally, there is no statistically significant trend in the
full 1973 – 2019 dataset.
So … lots of things of interest in Figure 3. However, I gotta say,
I’m not seeing the evil hand of steadily increasing atmospheric CO2 in
that record. Nor am I seeing any “anthropogenic fingerprint”. Perhaps
most importantly, am I unable to detect any sign of any “climate
emergency” in that record.
The final surprise was the recent several-year deep drop and then
recovery of the ice area. I figured it must be from what alarmists have
termed the “Arctic death spiral”, the widely trumpeted decrease in
Arctic sea ice. So I added the separate Arctic and the Antarctic records
to Figure 3 above. Figure 4 below shows those records.
Curiously, the amount of ice at the two poles is just about the same,
at ~2% of the globe. But that makes it hard to compare the Arctic and
Antarctic ice. So in Figure 4 below, I’ve offset the northern hemisphere
(blue line) by 1% for clarity. You’ll need to add 1% to the northern
hemisphere ice areas to get the actual values. Figure 4 shows the globe
as well as the two halves of the planet separately. Note that in this
graphic they are all to the same scale."
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