Posts by Robert

Are the ice caps melting?

@ Steve Goddard

An analysis of inconsistencies? So you are trying to say that climate science is a tricky subject, and most theories will turn out to be wrong in their detailed predictions? I would guess you are right - but the general trend of nearly all credible scientific thought is that the world will warm up significantly, and that will probably mean the ice caps will melt. And contrary to one of the first lines in your article, that is alarming.

Honestly, the comments here have depressed me enormously. The general theme: People can only imagine timescales of a couple of years, and can't appreciate the difference between rapid warming over decades and warming over many centuries. With thinking like this, we (and by this I mean human civilisation and many thousands of species of animals and plants) are stuffed.

Thick

The graph showing the change in ice area over time was interesting. What would be much more interesting is the change in ice thickness. My garden was covered in a dusting of snow last winter, but I wouldn't claim last winter was as cold as some in the 80's, when my garden was also completely covered (in several inches of snow).

If you are going to be an armchair scientist at least try to work out why your point of view may be wrong.