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Originally Posted by troutman
Arctic sea ice in longest decline seen over past 1,450 years: study
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle2246787/
“When we look at our reconstruction, we can see that the decline that has occurred in the last 50 years or so seems to be unprecedented for the last 1,450 years,” Christian Zdanowicz of the Geological Survey of Canada said Wednesday.
“It's difficult not to come up with the conclusion that greenhouse gases must have something to do with this,” added Mr. Zdanowicz, one of the co-authors of the report in Nature.
“We cannot account for this decline by processes that are ‘natural.’”
Mr. Zdanowicz and his team combined 69 different data sources to determine the extent of sea ice for every decade going back about 1,000 years and every 25 years beyond that.
The team examined tree rings, ice cores from glaciers and lake and ocean sediments. To check the validity of their approach, scientists compared their calculations for the last couple of centuries with real-world observations from satellites, ship logs and other historical accounts.
They found that by the mid-1990s sea ice had fallen even further than in previous lows such as the so-called Medieval Warm Period between 800 and 1300.
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Science: measuring Arctic sea ice using "
tree rings, ice cores from glaciers and lake and ocean sediments."
I know I haven't read the whole study and I'm no scientist (as you'd all vehemently agree), but these types of newspaper articles and leaps of logic are getting ridiculous, in that by merely publishing or posting, the uneducated masses are meant to just accept it. "Nothing more to see here, move along."
Yet, when we have a glimpse inside the staid, steady and irreproachable "science" behind so many of these studies, and we see politics, gamesmanship, bullying, and secrecy, those are dismissed offhandedly, like Tinordi, or "officially" like the Muir-Russel report on the original Climategate. "Nothing more to see here, move along."