On Nov 16, 9:41*am, Alastair wrote:
On Nov 16, 9:01*am, James Brown
wrote:

James has done a
Larry/April 2010 here.

Not correct as if you look carefully at the graph this is as the title
of this thread indicated, the FIRST time it reached less than the 2007
level this year.

That's not strictly true. Look hehttp://nsidc.org/images/arcticseaice...03_Figure2.png

The problem is you are just handing ammunition to the deniers who will
claim it is just weather.

The point you should be making is that those graphs show that sea ice
is well below the 1979 - 2000 average. In fact it is significantly
outside the 2 sigma standard deviation, making it clear that there has
been a climate change there since 2007 at least. If we have another
2007 type event then the sea ice may not recover by the following
spring, and then it is goodbye sea ice :-(

Cheers, Alastair.

Do you really think there will be no sea ice in the Arctic in winter
in the near future? How much do you think winter Arctic temperatures
averaging -20-30C every single day for 3+ months warm over the next
century!

It will be goodbye *summer* sea ice, for a short time, at some time,
probably in the next 30-50 years Alastair, not goodbye Arctic sea ice
in its entirity!