So just how bad is the Arctic ice melt this year? Listening to the alarmists you’d think the world’s ice supply was rapidly dwindling.
When dealing with such phenomena, you have got to pull your eyeballs back a little and take a look at the entire picture to put things in their proper perspective.
The headlines are that Arctic ice melt will reach a record low since satellite measurements have been taken (all the way back to the 1970s, i.e. roughly a whole half an AMO cycle – sarc off).
So how much more Arctic sea ice has melted (been dispersed) this year?
I am really, really tired about “the debate” over Arctic ice melt (or non-melt) and how big (or nonexistent) it is. I’m just going to wait until the Northwest Passage opens (or not) and serious oil and mineral extraction begins there (or not).
If we don’t get the Northwest Passage open and get at some of those locked-up reserves, the meltists were wrong. Let’s hope the meltists are right and we can move things forward. When things move forward, we’ll know the answer. Get some boats and rigs in there. Screw this argumentation over tiny meaningless percentages.