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Arctic Sea Ice Escalator
September Arctic sea ice extent data since 1980 from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (blue diamonds). "Recovery" years, meaning years when the sea ice extent is greater than the previous year, are highlighted in red to mock the repeated cynical claims of climate change "skeptics" that global warming has somehow stopped. Many factors affect the annual summer decrease in Arctic sea ice extent, and it is illogical at best to claim any "trend" by cherry-picking only brief periods of data. The obvious true long-term trend in Arctic sea ice extent (red second-order polynomial curve fit) is that it is declining at an accelerating rate.
SkS Resources that use this Graphic
- Vanishing Arctic Sea Ice: Going Up the Down Escalator
- Lessons from Past Climate Predictions: Arctic Sea Ice Extent 2012 Update
- Climate of Doubt and Escalator Updates
- 2012 in Review - A Major Year for Climate Change
- Record Arctic Sea-ice Minimum 2012 Declared - it's the Silly Season!
- Arctic sea-ice 'growth', a manufactured IPCC 'crisis' and more: David Rose is at it again
- Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph
- Arctic sea ice "recovers" to its 6th-lowest extent in millennia
- 2014 Arctic sea ice extent - 6th lowest in millennia
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