CLIMATE DUD-PREDICTIONS : ‘Ice-Free’ Arctic Prophesies By The ‘97% Consensus’ And Compliant Mainstream Media

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‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’ | Peter Wadhams | The Guardian (2016)

WE need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public’s imagination…
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest.

– Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC reports

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TRUST in the mainstream media is at an all time low.

A 2018 Monmouth University poll found that 77% of the public believe major ‘news’ outlets report “fake news”. A sharp rise from 63% who felt that way the previous year. A 2018 Axios poll found that 92% of Conservatives believe the media intentionally reports fake news. Concerns vindicated this week by two glaring examples of blatant fake news in the Covington Catholic high school and BuzzFeed media fiascos.

NONE of this is surprising, considering that 92%+ of the mainstream media is monopolised by Left-leaning journalists and editorial boards.

FAKE NEWS is par for the course in the Climate Crisis Industry where gross exaggeration, vague causation, alarmist predictions and even outright falsehoods are common place and excused away as acts of nobility in the righteous quest to “Save the Planet”.

GLOBAL WARMING climate change is a licence to lie.

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ONE of the perks of climate change scepticism (or realism) is the ability to exploit an almost unlimited supply of wild climate predictions made in the recent past by esteemed ‘experts’ and scientific bodies.

DIRE predictions of an “ice-free” Arctic have remained popular on the climate fear-mongering circuit, owing to the psychological currency of things melting and not least the emotional relevance applicable to the fate of the Arctic’s most famous resident – the polar bear…

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ARCTIC SEA-ICE FALSE PROPHESIES

A sample of Arctic sea-ice predictions made by members of the ‘97% consensus’ :

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Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years? | National Geographic (2007)

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bbc news | science:nature | arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013_

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’

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nsidc director mark serreze – “the arctic is screaming”-

Could all Arctic ice be gone by 2012? | AP

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Tim Flannery Predicted An Ice-Free Arctic In 2013 | Real Science

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NASA Scientist: ‘We’re toast’

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north pole could be ice free in 2008 | new scientist

North Pole could be ice free in 2008 | New Scientist

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gore- polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014 | usa today

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014 | USA Today (2009)

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arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years | environment | the guardian

Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years | The Guardian | 2012

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say goodbye to arctic summer ice | live science

Say Goodbye to Arctic Summer Ice | Live Science

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ice will vanish in 2013 – why arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | sierra club canada

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

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ice-free arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe – scientist | environment | the guardian

Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe – scientist | Environment | The Guardian

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‘next year or the year after, the arctic will be free of ice_ | environment | the guardian

‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’ | The Guardian | 2016

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STATE OF ARCTIC SEA-ICE : 2018 SUMMER MINIMUM

ARCTIC SEA-ICE EXTENT (September 2018)

MINIMUM sea-ice extent has been trending up over the past decade. The EXACT opposite of what the press and ‘97% experts’ have been telling you :

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Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut | September Minimum Extent

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ARCTIC SEA-ICE VOLUME (September 2018)

2.0 – 3.0 meter-thick sea-ice covered most of the Arctic basin during the 2018 summer minimum :

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DMI Modelled ice thickness | Sep 20, 2018

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ARCTIC minimum sea-ice volume has been increasing since 2007 :

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@KiryeNet キリエ on Twitter : “The Arctic has been refreezing for 12 years…minimum sea ice volume has been rising since 2007”

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CURRENT STATE OF ARCTIC SEA-ICE TO DATE

ARCTIC sea-ice extent is very close to the 1981-2010 median :

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Sea Ice Index | National Snow and Ice Data Center

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THE ARCTIC MELT ‘PAUSE’

CLAIMS that Arctic sea ice is disappearing are patently false. There has been no trend in Arctic sea ice extent since the start of MASIE records in 2006.

(Charts c/o Tony Heller – Real Climate Science)

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THERE has also been no trend in Arctic sea ice volume since 2006 :

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data    spreadsheet

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FAKE NEWS ~ Enemy Of The People

THE daily bombardment of fake climate news by the Climate Crisis Media helps foment a conventional wisdom and an accepted world view that there really is a “climate crisis”. This leads to gullible and virtue-signalling politicians, pressured by eco-activist minorities, to enact draconian and costly UN-based climate policies that are doing far more damage to people’s livelihoods and their economies, right now, than any purported 1-2°C “fabricated” temperature rise could ever do by 2100.

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