While the anti-science crowd scours the globe desperately looking for any indication of their imaginary cooling, reality has intruded again.Because they and the media — and even some scientists who don’t follow the subject closely — tend to take a two-dimensional view of the Arctic, they along with much of the public have been fooled into thinking the Arctic “recovered” in the past two years because sea ice extent appeared to recover. Heck, some even claimed last month the Arctic ice was “recovering” to the 1979-2000 average.Climate Progress readers have long understood that trends in multi-year ice — ice volume — are what matter most in terms of the long-term survivability of the Arctic ice in the summer see New study supports finding that “the amount of [multi-year] sea ice in the northern hemisphere was the lowest on record in 2009?.
