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> "but decades before had minimums below anything recorded since" I am skeptical of your claim.
by isthatafact 3y ago
> "but decades before had minimums below anything recorded since"
I am skeptical of your claim.
- anonymousiam 3y agoSkepticism is good! 15.9 million square kilometers was the recorded antarctic sea ice coverage in August 1966. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20140017193/downloads/20140017193.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20140017193/downloads/20...
- isthatafact 3y agoThat link is a paper about Antarctic winter sea ice extent maxima, when your claim was about polar sea ice minima, but I did not follow your argument in any case. You seem to imply that short term year on year variations in Antarctic sea ice (between 1964 and 1966) is a reason to doubt the multi-decade measurement of gulf stream weakening discussed in the article, but you have provided no reasoning to support your opinion.
- anonymousiam 3y agoPlease read the paper again. The reason I linked it was to demonstrate that sea ice minimums were lower in 1966 than any other recorded time. 1979 was the maximum, and nobody disputes that.
- isthatafact 3y ago? The paper is about winter (august/september) Antarctic sea ice extent, not minima, and you still provide no reasoning. I am done with this.
- anonymousiam 3y agoOkay... Winter minima is an important metric cited by "climate scientists" (and reporters) far and wide. Summer minima is less interesting for a whole bunch of technical reasons that I'm probably not qualified to explain.