Diminishing Arctic sea ice?

Originally posted by jopo ↑

Thank you for sharing your concerns based on a hypothetical.

I can assure you that you should be relieved that the Arctic will cease it's longer term decline. Cyclic behavior is normal for the Arctic region.
I am sure you are well aware of pre NASA agencies within the USA have shown historical evidence of past observations. the man in the hot seat at the time had the data in front of him. And they clearly show in government sanctioned releases that the ARCTIC has in fact been just as warm or similar in temps / ice extent in the 30s / 40s. Ice Extents then peaked in 1979. Which coincidentally is partially shown in the IPCC show. Since the 1990 edition of IPCC data only starts from the PEAK. Yes pre 1979 data sea ice extent that they had listed in the 1990 edition is no longer shown.
The data and much more is freely available on the WEB and has many times been submitted here on HC with the appropriate links of verification of authority. So please be assured that Greenland and surrounding Arctic areas in fact experience these cyclical expansion and contraction.

In saying that please do not be alarmed when you start noticing a trend in the Antarctic where sea ice where the sea ice increase has slowed down or perhaps even start an anomalous decrease.

It has been increasing for many many decades. But of late has shown signs of slowing down. I think it even may have had an outlier last year where it actually decreased. As has the same for the Arctic this season and last where the decreasing trend has been arrested and now showing signs of increase. That fact should not be disputed as the Canary in the coal mine (Greenland) has told us so along with Satellite data.

Rest easy Bellcurve all is good mate.

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I have been doing a little research of late and it looks like there has been increased precipitation over Greenland which has lead to increased snow fall.

So if there has been extra snow (we both know the reason to more snow - climate change) leading to insulation which doesn't allow the surface that was exposed to melt from last season to properly re-freeze. So although there may be an increase in mass gain during the winter, it may not necessarily translate into hard ice and could turn into surface water come spring. Which then adds to increased internal warm water flows etc etc

As for the Arctic, well it looks like this will be the 4th lowest total since records began.