
(Polar bear mother (Ursus maritimus) and twin cubs of the year hunting on the pack ice, Svalbard Archipelago, Arctic Norway Credit: All Canada Photos / Alamy Stock Photo)
Inevitably, when even satellite temperatures were showing 2016 as the hottest year on record, we were going to be told last winter that the Arctic ice was at its lowest extent ever. Sure enough, before Christmas, a report from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was greeted with such headlines as Hottest Arctic on record triggers massive ice melt. In March we had the BBC trumpeting another study that blamed vanishing Arctic ice as the cause of weather which led to the worst-ever smog in Beijing, warning that it could even threaten the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.
But last week we were brought back to earth by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), as charted by our friend Paul Homewood on his blog Notalotofpeopleknowthat, with the news that ever since December temperatures in the Arctic have consistently been lower than minus 20 C. In April the extent of Arctic...
Poster Comment:
What to do, oh what to do? I've got it! Pump more co2 into the atmosphere to see if it will warm things up.
Only left-wing loons buy into this global warming nonsense.