[troutman]

Originally Posted by zuluking

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."

Here is the abstract, no nasty newspaper ($32 for the full article):

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...ture10581.html

Here we use a network of high-resolution terrestrial proxies from the circum-Arctic region to reconstruct past extents of summer sea ice, and show that—although extensive uncertainties remain, especially before the sixteenth century—both the duration and magnitude of the current decline in sea ice seem to be unprecedented for the past 1,450 years. Enhanced advection of warm Atlantic water to the Arctic6 seems to be the main factor driving the decline of sea ice extent on multidecadal timescales, and may result from nonlinear feedbacks between sea ice and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. These results reinforce the assertion that sea ice is an active component of Arctic climate variability and that the recent decrease in summer Arctic sea ice is consistent with anthropogenically forced warming.