Hello! It’s your climate man again.
I have found a little more to say than I did a couple of days ago. Here’s today’s Arctic Sea Ice chart, courtesy, once again, my playing with NSIDC interactive Charctic graph.
The picture didn’t look too great a few days ago, nothing serious, but this time I have extended the range to cover the whole of July. A different picture emerges. Not so bad now, eh? As two more recent years begin to ‘swing low’ while the other two uphold the balance above the line with a little ‘swing high’ motion (compared to the previous decade smoky blue line).
See how those annual data lines swerve and intermingle? That’s the effect of weather. And that’s why we don’t worry too much about what any particular year did or is doing (other than from an observational interest). It’s swings and roundabouts. And it is why we look at longer term (decade) averages, since they tell us more. If only the climate alarmists could see it that way. They even tend to get steamed up by daily events in a few individual spots. Let them rave about ‘It’s too hot’ or ‘See! The seas are boiling’ or ‘look at the floods and the forest fires’. I guess they see some point in doing that but, in reality, none of it matters much at all. For every spot where they can find an anomaly, there are millions of spots on the face of this huge, mostly spherical and water covered planet where nothing unusual is going on. The global mean temperatures are testimony to that. They have not moved, by more than a few degrees Celsius through even the most volatile of periods, for many thousands of years. And by only a few more degrees for many millions of years. And unless you have done something we don’t know about yet, that situation is going to hold for many more thousands or millions of years. Sleep easy now.
Keep Calm – And Never Mind the Weather – It’s Not Climate Relevant
Not Something Else 
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