In September 2013, the Daily Mail — a British newspaper that
frequently publishes articles presenting climate change as a hoax —
trumpeted its latest evidence, in the form of researchers' findings that
the Arctic ice cap actually had increased 29 percent over the previous
year. "And now it's global COOLING!" the paper's headline gleefully
proclaimed.
On
the face, increasing polar sea ice would seem to be a powerful
refutation of the scary scenario presented by mainstream climate
scientists, which is that the shrinking ice is causing sea levels to
rise dangerously. But again, the flaw in the argument is that a single
year doesn't make a trend. The amount of northern polar ice varies from
year to year, but the long-term pattern is one of severe decline. From
1979 to 2014, the average ice cap in January shrank from 15.5 million
square kilometers (6 million square miles) to 13.7 million square
kilometers (5 million square miles). The only way that 2013 looked good
was because it was a little better than 2012, which was one of the worst
years on record.
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