{"id":2784,"date":"2009-04-19T03:41:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T10:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2017-02-01T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T19:26:25","slug":"the-polar-ice-caps-are-not-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/the-polar-ice-caps-are-not-disappearing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polar Ice Caps Are Not Disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update February 1, 2017:<\/strong> This post and the comments are, if nothing else, a plea for evidence based research. The evidence continues to mount that, actually, the polar ice caps probably are disappearing and we&#8217;re probably doing it. Please continue to comment and and use science as a tool to uncover the truths in the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tjic.com\/?p=11238\">TJIC points out<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu\/cryosphere\/\">Arctic Climate Research group at the University of Illinois<\/a> has very detailed records on world ice coverage, compiled in cooperation with the \u00a0National Center for Environmental Prediction\/NOAA.<\/p>\n<p>There is no ice crisis. So, if you please, shut up now.<\/p>\n<p>Click and understand:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/globaldailyiceareawithtrend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2785\" title=\"globaldailyiceareawithtrend\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/globaldailyiceareawithtrend-199x76.jpg\" alt=\"globaldailyiceareawithtrend\" width=\"199\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/globaldailyiceareawithtrend-199x76.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/globaldailyiceareawithtrend-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/globaldailyiceareawithtrend-1024x393.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/globaldailyiceareawithtrend.jpg 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That image was lifted directly from the \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu\/cryosphere\/\">ACRG<\/a> \u00a0site, except for TJIC&#8217;s comment of course. As of 5-14-09, you can find the most recent version of this chart on the ACRG site by looking about 2\/3 of the way down on the right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update March 3, 2013:<\/strong> There is a lively and informative discussion about this subject in the comments below. I especially would like to direct you to comments by Cyrus who has some good refuting arguments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update February 1, 2017: This post and the comments are, if nothing else, a plea for evidence based research. The evidence continues to mount that, actually, the polar ice caps probably are disappearing and we&#8217;re probably doing it. Please continue to comment and and use science as a tool to uncover the truths in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}