CrusaderFrank writes,
"(2) "Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC. "So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative." BBC Dec 2007"
What is so funny about these ignorant warmists who wail over a small reduction of Summer ice these days as if DOOM is right around the corner is they fail to show that the small increase of atmospheric CO2 is causing it, when for a few THOUSAND years in the early part of the current interglacial period, there were little to NO Summer ice, while CO2 stayed in the 260-280 ppm range the whole time.
The MWP was the last main period of little to no summer ice in the Arctic, as shown below.
Here is a published science paper on it:
"Taylor & Francis online
Birds and Climatic Change
Kenneth Williamson (1975) Birds and Climatic Change, Bird Study, 22:3,143-164, DOI: 10.1080/00063657509476459
Published online: 24 Jun 2009
“HISTORICAL REVIEW
Between 1000 and 1300 average summer temperatures were about 1°C higher than today, with the mean annual temperature higher by perhaps 4°C in a largely ice-free Arctic. Eric the Red, a renowned world citizen of that time, has been much maligned as the first progressive publicity man for giving Greenland a false image in order to attract settlers; but in truth, the southwest of that vast country was warmer and greener by far than at any time until the Fieldfares Turdus pilaris arrived there in the mid-1930s. The sea-temperature of the Atlantic was higher than it has been since, and there appears to have been none or very little ice to hinder the Vikings’ communications between Iceland, Greenland,Newfoundland and Labrador (Mowat 1965). Indeed Brooks (1926) considers that the polar ice-cap may have disappeared entirely during the summer months, to build anew each winter.”
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I have a lot more like this...........