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To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to the NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO), "Average ice extent for March 2014 was the fifth lowest for the month in the satellite record. Through 2014, the linear rate of decline for March ice extent is 2.6% per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 average."

As the saying goes: if you torture data enough, it'll tell you anything you want.

If you put the brakes on the spin cycle, here's what you're left with:

Ice extent for March 2014 is greater than it was for at least 4 other recent years. It's too early to tell whether this is the beginning of an upward trend; but, it is safe to say that an apparent downward trend has been put in serious doubt. We can't determine a trend from the annual data; but, if we were to take the average over an arbitrarily chosen time period and fudge the data by mixing decades with years, we could force the data to confess to a decline.

18 posted on 04/27/2014 10:50:25 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Some one throw some water on these warming fools...I’m melting, I’m melting!


20 posted on 04/27/2014 10:53:19 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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