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While we are on the topic of adjustments to data.
For decades now climate sceptics have argued that temperatures measured by proxy in the lower troposphere are not actually increasing. Hence, it is stated, despite all the other temperature records around the world posting record departures - they can't be true because the conflict with these satellite observations.
These satellite observations as I noted earlier are even more prone to adjustments than world temperature records. Check out the most recent adjustments and the impact on the temperature records.
Antarctic sea ice is currently building as per normal seasonal variation and tracking the 1980 trend. Not much difference in 37 years.What's surprising me Basilio is the Antarctic melt happening at present.
Most scientists didn't expect to see any real melting for a few decades yet.
While we are on the topic of adjustments to data.
GLOBAL TEMPERATURE
30 June 2017 6:38
Major correction to satellite data shows 140% faster warming since 1998
A new paper published in the Journal of Climate reveals that the lower part of the Earth’s atmosphere has warmed much faster since 1979 than scientists relying on satellite data had previously thought.
That's ocean, not land mass. Check land mass, that is what matters.Antarctic sea ice is currently building as per normal seasonal variation and tracking the 1980 trend. Not much difference in 37 years.
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Check link.Arctic summer ice looking healthy. Polar bears must be happy.
Check link.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
The ice loss has been huge.
China has bought an area for a new sea port ready for the new trade route. They don't have to cope with politics and politicians paid by "interests"
https://www.porttechnology.org/index.php?/news/china_plans_arctic_shipping_route
You referred earlier to the Antarctic melt. The only thing that melts in the Antarctic is the sea-ice, which is why I posted the chart showing the sea-ice seasonal variation.That's ocean, not land mass. Check land mass, that is what matters.
Huge loss (factor of 3 to 4 times) is quite normal between summer and winter. The link you posted states that"Arctic ice extent near levels recorded in 2012", which was true in the summer of 2012 except that it reversed in the summer of 2013:
China has bought an area for a new sea port ready for the new trade route. They don't have to cope with politics and politicians paid by "interests"
https://www.porttechnology.org/index.php?/news/china_plans_arctic_shipping_route
The chart you posted is just a snapshot for the month of June which has a natural range of ~20%, i.e. 10.6 to 12.7 million sq km. Looks dramatic except that the complete natural range of summer minimum to winter maximum dwarfs this, ie. ~ 400% 4.0 to 16.0 million sq kmThis is the graph you should have looked at. I should have named it. the one you posted shows how much melt per year and so is cumulative. Still a long way to go before it's mostly melted though.
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