TyroneSlothrop
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Look, the ice refused to melt according to the AGW Models, clearly labeling it as a DENIER! So it got adjusted accordingly
"NSIDC’s latest attempt to breathe new life into the corpse of the alarmist narrative comprised a press release a few weeks ago claiming that 5+ year old sea ice is at its smallest level on record."
"But according to Steven Goddard of the Real Science website this claim needs to be taken with a huge pinch of salt."
the quotes above are the basis of this article Icegate: Now NSIDC Caught Tampering With Climate Records .......which in turn is the reason for this thread
A new Olympic record for retraction of a denier talking point
The gold medal goes to Steven Goddard of The Register. On Friday August 15, he published a scathing article, “Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered: There’s something rotten north of Denmark” attacking the National Snow and Ice Data Center [ NSIDC] plot of Arctic Sea Ice Extent (below) that I and pretty much everyone else on the planet use.
Based on some (mis)analysis too obscure for mortal men and women to follow, he concluded “The problem is that this graph does not appear to be correct”:
The Arctic did not experience the meltdowns forecast by NSIDC and the Norwegian Polar Year Secretariat. It didn’t even come close. Additionally, some current graphs and press releases from NSIDC seem less than conservative. There appears to be a consistent pattern of overstatement related to Arctic ice loss….
Unless you are a denier, you may not be surprised to learn the amateur denier was wrong and the country’s leading cryosphere scientists were right. But you might be surprised that Goddard issued an unequivocal retraction within days at the site of the original article:
Steven Goddard writes: “Dr. Walt Meier at NSIDC has convinced me this week that their ice extent numbers are solid…. It is clear that the NSIDC graph is correct, and that 2008 Arctic ice is barely 10% above last year – just as NSIDC had stated.”
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