Late summer Arctic sea ice extent has remained steady for almost 2 decades.
In the late 2000s, experts and climate bedwetters, like Al Gore – warned the late summer Arctic sea ice would disappear already by 2015.
That prediction has yet to even come anywhere near close to happening.
According to the US National Snow and Ice data Center[1] (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Arctic sea ice melt this year has long reached its low point, falling to 4.602 million square kilometers on September 10th:
Source: NSIDC.
Compared to the record low of 3.387 million square kilometers that occurred 13 years ago, 2012, this year’s value is more than 1.2 million square kilometers greater, and nearly half a million square kilometers more than 2007 (4.155 million square kilometers.).
Overall, Arctic lat summer sea ice trend has been flat for nearly 2 decades, defying the global warming trend prediction that it would melt to almost nothing by now. The alarmists have been completely wrong.
References
- ^ US National Snow and Ice data Center (nsidc.org)