Tuesday March 17, 2009, 10:24 am
The warming is over. Arctic ice levels recovered at record speed in the last two years to slightly below the 1979-2000 mean.http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html

That said, it is probably a good idea for the nations who control the places Polar bears are found to get together and discuss management.

Tuesday March 17, 2009, 3:53 pm
Whatever Judy. Interesting article Robert, think these talks might bring out the protesters?

Tuesday March 17, 2009, 8:02 pm
This is a political hot-potato and I'm glad.

Tuesday March 17, 2009, 8:30 pm
Here is the actual trend over the past ten years for the Arctic Ice cap:

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/nsidc-seaice-n/last:120/plot/nsidc-seaice-n/last:120/trend

Judy's proclaiming that the warming is over is silly. Only when the trend line shown on that chart goes up rather than down can we say for certain that the crisis of the melting Arctic ice cap been averted. It's like a doctor saying, when a child's fever has dropped from 105 degrees to 102 degrees, that his illness is over and he can go back to school. I'd fire any doctor who said such an absurdity.

Thursday March 19, 2009, 11:20 am
Wood-for-trees you use when real data is available from a real source? You show no respect for the people you try to hoodwink .
March 3, 2009
Ice extent nears annual maximum
Arctic sea ice extent continued to increase through the month of February, as it approaches its annual maximum. Ice extent averaged for February 2009 is the fourth-lowest February in the satellite record. From February 18 to 22, ice extent declined slightly, primarily because of weather conditions off the coast of Alaska; ice extent then rebounded.
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

Thursday March 19, 2009, 11:32 am
Since ice coverage was the lowest only two years ago and is now up to 4th lowest, it should be obvious to all, except by those suffering from cognitive dissonance, that it is colder and that the ice level is returning to levels ice fetishists deem more appropriate.

It is important to remember that one of the prime ocean currents , the pacific Decadal Oscillation, had just gone into its warm phase in 1977. That was only 2 years before the satellite monitoring system went into operation.

Here is the graph Dale and Chris O prefer.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png

Remember trend lines are not predictive, no matter what fuss Dale and Chris make about them.