Non-Melting Sea Ice Alarmists Don’t Want You To See

Arctic -- Melting of Arctic ice has been used as a major data point in justification of restrictive energy policies by many countries. It is ironic, and infuriating that millions across the world are suffering from high energy prices and blackouts at the same time that Arctic sea ice has been at its greatest extent in many years. ⁽¹⁾

Arctic sea ice continued its remarkable recovery in January 2024. Good news for polar bears and ice fans, but frankly a bit of disaster if you are forecasting future summer swimming galas at the North Pole to promoter collective Net Zero agendas. This is an area that has long been a poster scare for climate Armageddon. ⁽²⁾

Arctic

Arctic sea ice this January was at its highest level for 20 years, and there has been no downward trend in the minimum since 2006.

Susan Crockford observes that the latest National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) number “now makes 18 years of near-zero trend in September sea ice, which demolishes the claim that CO2 means less sea ice.” (3)

Every year since 2012 has seen a higher minimum than 2012 and, as Crockford notes, a fitting of the line to the fluctuations shows no trend since 2006.

Global warming was supposed to open up Arctic region shipping routes, making the Northwest Passage easier and less risky to traverse. However, the opposite has happened. While a declining trend in Arctic sea ice was observed from the 1990s to 2007, there has been no trend reduction in Arctic sea ice since then. A 17- year pause. ⁽⁴⁾

As of March 22, 2024, all of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was covered with ice as was Hudson’s Bay and the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia. This is contiguous with the seas to the north of Russia and Siberia, so the polar bears will have free range, and are not stranded on ice floes as shown by Al Gore. ⁽⁵⁾

Antarctic

Since the late 1970s, Antarctic sea ice area has slowly increased, despite significant global warming The increase occurred largely between 2000 and 2014. ⁽⁶⁾

Greenland

The ice masses on Greenland show an unusual summer growth of more than 2 billion tons at the end of July 2024 in the middle of the melting season. ⁽⁷⁾

References

1. Vijay Jayarai, “Arctic ice at decade high level: can doomsayers explain?”, reddit.com, August 30, 2022
2. Chris Morrison, “Arctic sea ice continues its remarkable recovery: ice expands to 21 year high,” climatedepot.com, February 10 2024
3. “The Arctic ice rebound alarmists don’t want you to see,” principia-scientific.org, October 11, 2024
4. Kenneth Richard, “Arctic sea ice choke points reducing NW passage shipping season length by 5-14 weeks since 2007,” notrickszone.com, July 18, 2024
5. James Dent, “The death of the melting Arctic sea ice scam,” principia-scientific.org, May 4, 2024
6. Kenneth Richard, “New study: Antarctic sea ice has been increasing since the 1970s due to internal decadal variability,” notrickszone.com, November 8, 2024
7. Gosselin, “Summer melting has plateaued: July Arctic sea ice extent hasn’t fallen in 17 years,” notrickszone.com, August 6, 2024