BlOoDy RiPpEr wrote on Sep 13
th, 2013 at 7:46am:
No. You're showing two photographs of a small part of the world and attempting to assert that it is representative of the whole. It's not. That is cherry picking and is a fallacious line of argument.
Quote:A cool Arctic summer allowed nearly a million more squre miles of ice to form over the same time last year. This figure represents a growth of 60 percent.
Extrapolating a trend from two data points is not reliable. If you had a clue you would know this.
Quote:The incredible arctic ice growth after the record low of 2012 is significant.
No. It' not. It's just a pair of cherry picked data points. One cool winter in a part of the world does not prove a cooling trend for the whole world.
Quote:Just six years ago, a science article from the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free by the summer of 2013.
Predictions are not always accurate. Your point?
I've seen plenty of predictions from deniers that were also inaccurate.
Quote:The indication of global cooling indicates the opposite. According to monitors, the Arctic now features an unbroken ice sheet that is larger than half of Europe. The sheet stretches from the Canadian islands all the way to Russia's northern shores. What's more, the Arctic's Northwest Passage has been blocked by ice all year. More than 20 yachts that attempted to sail the passage were left ice bound. A cruise ship was also forced to turn back around.
Again, so what? It's just a data point. A general trend does not rule out the possibility of significant fluctuations around the mean. You have no idea about statistics.
Melbourne has just had it's warmest July on record. That is not particularly significant if taken in isolation. Yet we seem to have a large number of such warmest-on-record reports from all over the world and a relative lack of coolest-on-record reports. The overall aggregate of all the data also points to persistent warmer conditions than the long-term averages.