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By Murst on 1/4/2008 11:58:41 AM , Rating: 4

Sorry to ask this question, but now I'm completely confused by your articles.

Prior to this article, you seemed to have taken a position that there isn't really any warming in the arctic. I seem to remember how you had an article about how the ice is growing, not shrinking.

Now, you have an article about how the warming is natural, which would seem to indicate that you do in fact believe that warming exists. If this was your stance all along, your previous articles would have been misleading (and that's w/ a generous interpretation).

Or pehaps I'm missing something. Are you trying to imply that we're seeing a buildup in ice at the same time as the arctic warms?

RE: Explanation?
By masher2 (blog) on 1/4/2008 12:16:42 PM , Rating: 2
> "Prior to this article, you seemed to have taken a position that there isn't really any warming in the arctic"

No warming in the ANTarctic. I believe you're referring to this article, which identified strong sea ice growth in Antarctica:

The North Pole, however, is a different matter entirely. There isn't any discrepancy in the stories.

RE: Explanation?
By Murst on 1/4/2008 12:22:33 PM , Rating: 2
Hmm... ok, I'll buy that.

So it may be more accurate to say that global warming doesn't exist.

However, we have northern hemisphere warming and southern hemisphere cooling, with their average slightly leaning to the warming side? Or is that not really accurate either?

RE: Explanation?
By masher2 (blog) on 1/4/2008 12:35:25 PM , Rating: 2
The global trend obviously depends on the time period examined, as well as any adjustments, if any, made for urbanization effects on land surface readings, instrumentation changes over the period in question, and a huge number of factors.

Taken since 1998, the average for the planet as a whole has been flat (no increase nor decrease), according to data from the British Met Office:

According to data from James Hansen's GISS center, which does far more "massaging" of the raw temperature data, there is still a slight increase in the trend.

RE: Explanation?

