Dear or Dear the carbonians are getting their knickers in a knot over NOTHING
satellite measurement began just over 30 years ago, and is too short a period to draw such confident conclusions about attribution at the time satellite measurement began, Arctic ice had been growing for many years after a period of global cooling, and so a subsequent decline during a period of warming is to be expected Arctic likely to have had less ice in 1930s and 40s recent ice loss may be attributable to changes in ocean currents, wind or other weather-related phenomena this year, a particularly severe storm caused the disintegration of a considerable area of sea ice cyclical fluctuations of Arctic ice are known to have existed for millennia
But unfortunately, the AGW believers invariably insist on using Arctic sea ice levels as a crude "gotcha" to "prove" that they are right (canaries, coal mines etc), claiming absolute certainty of attribution, when in fact, as is almost always the case in these matters, it is a subtle combination of factors that lead to the present conditions.
Just another example of the extreme polarisation of the issues when the middle ground is where everyone should be focussing.
