I Wonder Why The Eco Scientists Won't Accept This?

[youngmafbog]

Maybe because their budgets will get cut ?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/21/arctic_bounces_back_world_returns_to_sea_ice_levels_seen_in_1980s/

[bazwillrun]

Oh no this could upset their nice little research grants that keep them in a lifestyle theyve become accustomed to......this is serious !

[Sipowicz]

Chill!

[jim360]

Possibly, but then there is also the entirely valid point about long-term trends vs. short-term fluctuations. If sea ice continues to recover and indeed increase in size over the long-term, then there will be some level of head-scratching, to see the least, among climate scientists. I know it will look like a denial of the facts but one has to be careful before jumping to conclusions like "it's all false" (or vice versa) based on a comparatively short-term pattern. We'll see what happens to the sea ice around the poles in the next decade or so.

[Svejk]

Tee-hee;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7139797.stm

[Svejk]

The 'extinct' polar bears can breath a sigh of relief then.

[jim360]

Ouch...

It's a mistake to take extreme predictions in any field too seriously. Sadly in climate science it's the more extreme results that also tend to attract the most attention. And then when they don't come true it just looks bad (because, well, it is).

Climate science is too tied-up in politics, and that's a shame, because the central message -- that we need to be bloody careful before severely disrupting various natural systems -- gets lost in the noise of predictions that don't come true, fluctuations that go against the expected (observed) trends, accusations of figure-fiddling, etc etc.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure scientists of all beliefs are happy to accept the levels will rise and fall at various times. It is the trend one should be wary about. There has been a period of mild weather so some respite.

[Old_Geezer]

Professor Maslowski is stated as believing most others had underestimated the melting process, and based on this came up with a worst case scenario where it all went very quickly. Good copy for newspapers to make known, but that quickly, hardly a likely occurrence. As it has proved.

[Bazile]

Where is New Judge

[Old_Geezer]

Skating on thin ice.

[ToraToraTora]

there must be some mistake, surely were dooooomed!

[kirkcudbright]

Read Paul Homewood 's blog notalotofpeopleknowthat it's very interesting !

[Slapshot]

What Jim says in his first post is bang on. don't take a short term fluctuation as a sign of a long term gain, crunch is though that this does have scientists scratching head... none of the models reflect this in any way and don't actually predict slowing of any sort,the rate of ice decrease should be accelerating.

just goes to show never trust mother earth to follow what politcians and that shower of political yes men and women at IPCC tell it to.... thank your favourite deity for Nature!!

[Gromit]

Who or where does it say the Eco Scientists won't accept it?

It does not fit in with their predictions, but it might be a blip. The prediction might be right, but 2013 might be an anomoly.

[Slapshot]

because eco science is a politically driven beast, science might believe the data but don't expect politics to accept that AGW is slowing down... maybe!! All these anomalies are becoming too regular....

[Khandro]

Scientists often making U-turns, that's not always a bad thing, in fact I wish a few would do it more often. Take Stephen Hawking, I quoted him not long ago saying 'If there is life out there, we should keep well away', and now this week he is endorsing a £100 million plan to search for it.
I wonder if this too contains an element of self-interest?

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps we need to find it in order to know how to hide from it ;-)

[New Judge]

"Where is New Judge?"

Keeping well out of it. I'm surfing the web looking for "I told you so" placards. :-).

[Slapshot]

I can't wave mine.... not where I work....