Obama has healed the planet

[Newt]

Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat

Updated data from NASA satellite instruments reveal the Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979. Since the end of 2012, moreover, total polar ice extent has largely remained above the post-1979 average. The updated data contradict one of the most frequently asserted global warming claims – that global warming is causing the polar ice caps to recede.

The timing of the 1979 NASA satellite instrument launch could not have been better for global warming alarmists. The late 1970s marked the end of a 30-year cooling trend. As a result, the polar ice caps were quite likely more extensive than they had been since at least the 1920s. Nevertheless, this abnormally extensive 1979 polar ice extent would appear to be the “normal” baseline when comparing post-1979 polar ice extent.

Updated NASA satellite data show the polar ice caps remained at approximately their 1979 extent until the middle of the last decade. Beginning in 2005, however, polar ice modestly receded for several years. By 2012, polar sea ice had receded by approximately 10 percent from 1979 measurements. (Total polar ice area – factoring in both sea and land ice – had receded by much less than 10 percent, but alarmists focused on the sea ice loss as “proof” of a global warming crisis.)

A 10-percent decline in polar sea ice is not very remarkable, especially considering the 1979 baseline was abnormally high anyway. Regardless, global warming activists and a compliant news media frequently and vociferously claimed the modest polar ice cap retreat was a sign of impending catastrophe. Al Gore even predicted the Arctic ice cap could completely disappear by 2014.


In late 2012, however, polar ice dramatically rebounded and quickly surpassed the post-1979 average. Ever since, the polar ice caps have been at a greater average extent than the post-1979 mean.

Now, in May 2015, the updated NASA data show polar sea ice is approximately 5 percent above the post-1979 average.

During the modest decline in 2005 through 2012, the media presented a daily barrage of melting ice cap stories. Since the ice caps rebounded – and then some – how have the media reported the issue?

I suppose PM will be happy that we can continue to burn coal.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

That post is Crap,,,

Ice is melting faster every Day, Only A few Brain Dead Deniers ,,believe different.

And He!! No I am not for Coal mining in South Eastern Ky,,,,It just can't be mined ,Right.

There is no Debate on Climate Change,,The Climate is in Fact Changing,,,,If you cannot understand that ,then the Rest is Far to Complicated for You.

[Rabbithoundjb]

So what part of the climate is changing and you are absolutely wrong PMB about the ice unless your talking about that in your pepsi cup.

[Newt]

PM, taking politics and government handouts out of the picture, would you rather invest in Coal, Wind , or Solar?
Interesting fact, the blowhards that are screaming "man caused climate change" the earth is dying. They all live in mansions, either fly their private jets or on government planes, and travel on helicopters and limousines. They don't seem to want to do their part to save themselves.
Do you not have the mental capacity to understand that?