More Inconvenient Truth

from Andrew Bolt:

From the ABC report, you’d think the Arctic ice was melting faster than ever:

A group of Russian scientists are being rescued from a melting ice-floe in the Arctic.

Our Moscow correspondent, Scott Bevan, reports the 20 scientists have been based on the ice floe since September, conducting a range of experiments, including monitoring the effects of climate change.

The team was meant to be at the drifting station, known as North Pole 35, for a year. But the ice has been melting so quickly, that the floe’s shrunk to a little more than a tenth of its size of last September.

In fact, there is much more ice now at the North Pole than there was last year - a detail the ABC strangely forgot to mention:



(Source: US National Snow and Ice Data Center.)

(This graph shows that the ice this year is more than the same time last year, although somewhat below the long term average, but well above that predicted by "the models"- Keith)

I’m guessing that this fact will get only a fraction of the coverage that this scare received last month:

The distinct possibility that this summer—for the first time in recorded history—the North pole could be free of sea ice, is now a common subject of discussion among the world’s climate experts.

Once again I ask: if the evidence for a warming world, heated by man, is so clear, why the need to constantly exaggerate and cherrrypick?

UPDATE

Speaking of which, Professor Bjorn Lomborg notes:

Given all the warnings, here is a slightly inconvenient truth: over the past two years, the global sea level hasn’t increased. It has slightly decreased. Since 1992, satellites orbiting the planet have measured the global sea level every 10 days with an amazing degree of accuracy – 3-4mm. For two years, sea levels have declined. (All of the data are available at sealevel.colorado.edu.)...

Simply put, we’re being force-fed vastly over-hyped scare stories. Proclaiming six meters of sea-level rise over this century contradicts thousands of UN scientists, and requires the sea-level rise to accelerate roughly 40-fold from today. Imagine how climate alarmists would play up the story if we actually saw an increase in the sea-level rise.

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