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The failed Arctic Ocean predictions of global warming scientists

Link here. The post at the link carefully documents the endless numbers of failed doomsday predictions foisted upon us for the past decade, claiming that due to global warming the Arctic Ocean icecap would be gone by 2018.

Instead, in the past three years there is evidence that the icecap has begun to thicken and expand, recovering from a two decade decline. Though this is not a certain conclusion, what is certain is that there is no sign of the icecap vanishing, in any sense. Every prediction documented at the link, by so-called experts, is completely bogus.

There is a reason the public does not take global warming very seriously. Its advocates have cried wolf too many times. Their predictions of doom have consistently failed. Every. Single. Time.

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11 comments

  • wodun

    I don’t remember if this was posted here at the time but National Geographic came clean about the starving polar bear video was not actually because of global warming.

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/explore-through-the-lens-starving-polar-bear-photo/

    But because it raised awareness, they have no problem lying.

  • hondo

    To effectively understand –
    Global Warming/climate change is happening
    Global Warming/climate is bad
    Global Warming/climate is caused by man
    Man is bad
    To save the world – Man must be controlled

    Simple – pretty much sums up the bulk of the true believers – a religion by another name

  • Andrew_W

    The media will always run with the more dramatic stories, the vast majority of scientists that have been long forecasting a slow decline in Arctic sea ice don’t get the headlines.

    “Instead, in the past three years there is evidence that the icecap has begun to thicken and expand, recovering from a two decade decline.”

    Seriously?? You’re going to claiming that a dubious increase in sea ice volume for 3 years against a 20 year trend constitutes evidence of a change in the long term trend? Seriously?
    http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/

  • wayne

    hondo–
    Good stuff.

    Mark Levin: The New De-Growth Green Movement is the Old Red Movement
    June 2016, CRTV
    https://youtu.be/vINU9qEYS9g
    10:46

  • Steve Holmberg

    Fortunately I am old enough to recall when the hysteria was global COOLING.

    As the great Louis Rukeyser used to say: “It looks like the end of the world is going to be a little late again this year.”

  • wodun

    You’re going to claiming that a dubious increase in sea ice volume for 3 years against a 20 year trend constitutes evidence

    You are going to take a 20 year trend assign a bunch of end of the world meaning to it and apply it indefinitely out into the future? Our climate is filled with naturally occurring 20, 50, 100, and even 1000 year fluctuations.

    The best thing for environmentalists that want to control people through the evolutionary fear of an uncertain future is that the climate is always changing, so there will always be something going to to try and scare people with.

  • Andrew_W

    “You are going to take a 20 year trend assign a bunch of end of the world meaning to it and apply it indefinitely out into the future?”
    No, haven’t done that.

  • Andrew_W

    And the trend of a decline in arctic sea ice volume is at least 4 decades old.

  • Edward

    Andrew_W,
    You wrote: “And the trend of a decline in arctic sea ice volume is at least 4 decades old.

    You mean to say that when we were saved from the coming ice age the Arctic ice began to decline instead of grow? I, like Steve Holmberg, remember five decades ago, when the Arctic ice cap was going to grow to two miles deep and extend as far south as Minneapolis.

    Oh, thank goodness that we are no longer under threat of freezing and thus no longer need overbearing government regulation and intervention in order to save all our lives from a frozen wasteland of death and season after season of failed crops.

    And that the Northwest Passage will remain open a little longer (it was closed off during the Little Ice Age).

    Whew! Dodged a bullet (made of ice, of course) on that one.

  • pzatchok

    Bring on that global warming!!!!!

    Have land in Texas in case it gets colder and land in Canada in case it gets warmer.

    Bring it on baby.

  • Jhon

    Well, now you all might believe this global warming. Stevie Wonder said it is what gave Aretha Franklin Cancer…

    Stevie Wonder links Aretha Franklin’s cancer to ‘global warming’

    http://www.climatedepot.com/2018/08/20/stevie-wonder-blames-aretha-franklins-cancer-on-global-warming-all-these-various-diseases-that-we-have-and-all-that-is-happening-in-the-world-in-part-is-because-there-are-those-who-don/

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