http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/04/15/lawrence-solomon-arctic-sea-ice-back-to-1989-levels-now-exceeds-previous-decade/
This is how they do it, carefully cherry-picking the footnotes they want from our own sources to undermine our arguments. I will present his case with no detailed rebuttal on my part. You guys have the scientific literacy, and access to his sources at IJIS and NSIDC, to spot the holes in his case. His intended audience obviously does not. They just want ideological reassurance. Desperately.
Note that he also used the Jaxa and NSIDC website data, but carefully avoided the numbers which show what happens after springtime when the Arctic Sun climbs higher into the sky and the summer melt begins in earnest… You know, those same graphs I’ve been posting here with such annoying and strident regularity.
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
Don’t worry, I’ll make it a point to post the April 2013 graph the moment NSIDC publishes it next month. You’ll be able to compare all the April figures for the last 34 years and make up your own mind as to what the trends are.
But what else can you expect from the Financial Post? He has a dog in this fight, all right, but it ain’t a climatological one. He, and the people he represents and works for, have another agenda altogether. I refuse to believe this is merely the result of ignorance. After all, why is there an op-ed on sea ice in the Financial Post? Does the Geophysical Review report on the stock market? This piece is carefully thought out and meticulously crafted to make a very precise and specific point. It is deliberately manufacturing a lie.
The question remains, if we can’t trust these guys on climatology, can we trust them to tell the truth about anything at all?