{"id":17472,"date":"2013-08-15T09:45:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=17472"},"modified":"2013-08-15T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T14:45:22","slug":"the-recovery-of-arctic-sea-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/the-recovery-of-arctic-sea-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Recovery of Arctic Sea Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every northern summer Arctic Sea ice melts away and reforms for winter, but how much melts away seems to be increasing on average, at a rate that surprises climate scientists.<\/p>\n<p>But there are some who see variation from year to year, and there is variation, in a rather unrealistic way.  Here is a graph comparing how climate science denialists view arctic sea ice over time, compare to how &#8220;climate realists&#8221; (i.e., smart people who can read graphs and such) see it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/08\/ArcticEscalator2012_med.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/08\/ArcticEscalator2012_med.gif?resize=500%2C340\" alt=\"ArcticEscalator2012_med\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17473\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/graphics.php?g=64\">Go HERE to see the source and learn more about what is behind this graph. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every northern summer Arctic Sea ice melts away and reforms for winter, but how much melts away seems to be increasing on average, at a rate that surprises climate scientists. But there are some who see variation from year to year, and there is variation, in a rather unrealistic way. Here is a graph comparing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/15\/the-recovery-of-arctic-sea-ice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Recovery of Arctic Sea Ice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1900,1591,148,856,3233,20,1882,1964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4xO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}