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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
Here's the Arctic:
And the Antarctic:
And here's Greenland:
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Challenge accepted.
First off sample size. For something as complex as the earth a 29 year sample size is a joke, further more comparing 29 year sample size to individual winters is text book definition cherry picking.
On top of that the same bunch of people who were telling us the polar ice caps were going to be melted by 2010 were convinced in the late 1970s the next ice age was here. So it would be reasonable to assume that the late 1970s and early 1980s were cooler than usual.
Plus in the mid 90s mount penitubo erupted, causing 2 years of 2°F cooler than normal temps.
I also noticed a few years were conveniently left out on those charts, I'm sure those years didn't matter at all. It just looks exactly like more cherry picking.
I should also add the 2017 greenland melt does not appear to be much of a statical anomaly, unless some one is going out of their way to make it look that way.
Bottom line, I want them to be right, looking forward to seeing a warmer world.