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Old September 26th 13, 05:08 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Shock horror: Late Summer Arctic Sea Ice gone by 2069

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:54:28 -0700 (PDT)
exmetman wrote:

Before I get blitzed with complaints (that’ll be the day) about why I
did this, I will freely admit that the logic behind doing this is
more than a little bit dodgy. I know nature doesn’t like straight
lines and that’s what linear regression give you, but the I thought
what the heck and just did it anyway.


Take a look at this and see if, in this case anyway, (a) nature might
have a point about straight lines and (b) you might make that forecast
date a little sooner. I'm still sticking with the forecast of 2020
that I made about eight(?) years ago.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosph....1900-2010.png


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