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I'm familiar with that graph; I used to have it posted on my wall with a great big "You are here" arrow on it. Its pretty dishonest to post today, though. Its
by brandmeyer 7y ago
I'm familiar with that graph; I used to have it posted on my wall with a great big "You are here" arrow on it.
Its pretty dishonest to post today, though. Its based on models that are obsolete, and is missing 6 more years of arctic ice extent. Using an anomalous minimum is just as bad as the deniers use of an anomalous maximum temperature from an El Nino year.
There's plenty of reason to be alarmed at the state of the climate and cryosphere, but it is important to be honest about it.
See also
https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/ https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/
https://greatwhitecon.info/resources/arctic-sea-ice-graphs/ https://greatwhitecon.info/resources/arctic-sea-ice-graphs/
https://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/models-are-improving-but-can-they-catch-up.html https://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/models-are-improving...
- mjw1007 7y agoI think you're assuming that the low point on that graph is the 2012 low outlier. It isn't, it's 2007. The graph would look much worse if stopped in 2012.
- brandmeyer 7y agoThe third link I submitted has the variant of this that stops just after 2012.