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Arctic Ice Loss Driven By Natural Swings, Not Just Mankind, Says Study (reuters.com)
Alister Doyle, reporting for Reuters: Natural swings in the Arctic climate have caused up to half the precipitous losses of sea ice around the North Pole in recent decades, with the rest driven by man-made global warming, scientists said on Monday. The study indicates that an ice-free Arctic Ocean, often feared to be just years away, in one of the starkest signs of man-made global warming, could be delayed if nature swings back to a cooler mode. Natural variations in the Arctic climate "may be responsible for about 30-50 percent of the overall decline in September sea ice since 1979," the U.S.-based team of scientists wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change. Sea ice has shrunk steadily and hit a record low in September 2012 -- late summer in the Arctic -- in satellite records dating back to 1979. The ice is now around the smallest for mid-March, rivaling winter lows set in 2016 and 2015. The study, separating man-made from natural influences in the Arctic atmospheric circulation, said that a decades-long natural warming of the Arctic climate might be tied to shifts as far away as the tropical Pacific Ocean.
Everyone knows that its man made global warming.
If it isnt, then we can't collect fat government grants to study the problem!
Pretty sure you can't blame humans for the warming coming out of the last Ice Age. Or the "Little Ice Age" in the pre-industrial area. It would be stranger to think that humans are the primary driver of sea ice increase or decrease today. (Looking at you, @manbearpig.)
And why haven't they been sent to the Ministry of Truth for reeducation yet?
Have gnu, will travel.
Why does it take 37 years to show nature is responsible? Something doesn't smell right.
What doesn't smell right is the DECADES now of so-called "Scientists" willing to prositute themselves and the truth all in favor of the next "Research Grant".
Not that I support ANYTHING (including the war on the EPA) that this so-called "Administration" does (see, I can do it, too!); but I am in wholehearted agreement (as is my meterologist friend) that "Climate Change" is NOT man-made.
All you have to do is look at the temperature graphs for the past century or so that we have been recording them to realize that, while we ARE in a "warming period", MAN has little-to-nothing to do with it.
Sorry. We just can't muster the energy to effect climactic changes on that scale, short of having a Nuclear War.