Graham <
[email protected]> writes:
On 21/07/2025 23:00, Lynn McGuire wrote:
“But since they have been pretty consistent in their own alarmism about
the loss of sea ice, it should be an important data point that current
levels of sea ice exceed levels recorded in the very first year of
tracking them — 1981.”
Whoever runs that site is guilty of some pretty obvious cherrypicking
of their figures.
The graphs are available for five areas - Eastern Arctic, East Coast,
Hudson Bay, Western Arctic and Great Lakes. In four of those five, ice >coverage is well below 1981 levels. Failing to point this out is heavily >disingenuous at best.
It's Lynn, ideology trumps facts in his world.
https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-cover
From https://iceweb1.cis.ec.gc.ca/Prod/page1.xhtml
pick "Ice Cover Graph", "Ice Cover Graph - Historical Total Accumulated
Ice Coverage" and "All"
If anyone's interested in what the Met Office has to say, complete with >graphs covering the same period, you can look here:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/monitoring/sea-ice/2025/briefing-on-arctic-and-antarctic-sea-ice---july-2025
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