On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 08:50, Natsman scribbled:

On 16 Sep, 09:17, Graham P Davis wrote:
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2010/091510.html

"Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent on 10
September. The minimum ice extent was the third-lowest in the satellite
record, after 2007 and 2008, and continues the trend of decreasing summer
sea ice."


An arrested trend - one step forward, two steps back. The melting
season will probably start later each year, and the melt season will
be shorter. Ice will accumulate, it'll get colder. You can't odds
that, no matter how hard you try. Climate is cyclical, after the
warm, the cold. Alarmists are looking over the wrong shoulder...


Climate may be cyclical, but the cyclical trend should have been downwards
from around 1940 to 1990 and global temperatures should still be lower
than they were in the 40s.

Arctic ice, at the time of minimum extent, is at least 40% less than it was
forty to fifty years ago and the thickness has halved. I'm still sticking to
the forecast I made about half-a-dozen years ago that the ice will be gone
by 2020.

Deniers can't look over the wrong shoulder because they'd never be able to
see past the massive chips on both. That's assuming they could take their
heads out of the sand for long enough.

--
Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. E-mail: "newsman", not "newsboy".
"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." - Carl
Sagan