Division of Labour points out that this New York Times article includes a small snippet at the end:
Sea ice around Antarctica has seen unusual winter expansions recently, and this week is near a record high.
So, it is not unreasonable to conclude that the high levels of retreating ice is due to the unusually high level of coverage at the moment?
Not what the NYT is reporting though, they’re just reporting it as another global warming story.
This is the sort of thing I’m worried about. It may turn out that the unusual expansion is due to climate change, but its hardly consistent with the picture they’re painting which seems more about being alarmist.
This is also why reviews, like the IPCC reports and the Copenhagen Consensus (to pick two, I’m sure there’s more) are important.
