Arctic Sea Ice (part 1)
A bracing analysis of the poster child of globalist alarmism: what you always wanted to know about Arctic sea ice but were afraid to ask
In my festive taster entitled Arctic Roll I gently introduced readers to a smattering of issues concerning Arctic sea ice: stuff we should all ideally know about but don’t. Knowledge is power they say, so let’s go get muscle-bound and snarling by indulging in a few colourful slides and statistical analyses…
We can start by wheeling out the favourite slide of alarmism, this being annual mean Arctic sea ice extent since 1978. This data can be found within the Sea Ice Index (SII) of NSIDC, the National Snow and Ice Data Center being a part of CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences) at the University of Colorado, and also being the oldest and largest of NOAA's cooperative institutes. We are talking deep respect!
Why 1978 and not 1928? Well, that’s when instrumented satellite data became available for the first time, the first ever data record being time stamped 26th October 1978. In a nutshell, a satellite platform in low Earth orbit is bouncing microwaves off t…