OSLO (Reuters) - Natural swings in the Arctic climate have caused up to half the precipitous losses of sea ice around the North Pole in recent decades, with the rest driven by man-made global warming, scientists said on Monday.
The study indicates that an ice-free Arctic Ocean, often feared to be just years away, in one of the starkest signs of man-made global warming, could be delayed if nature swings back to a cooler mode.
Natural variations in the Arctic climate "may be responsible for about 30–50 percent of the overall decline in September sea ice since 1979," the U.S.-based team of scientists wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Sea ice has shrunk steadily and hit a record low in September 2012 -- late summer in the Arctic -- in satellite records dating back to 1979.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @11:27PM
I do wonder how this got published,though./quote.
Because the massive elitist conspiracy to push AGW isn't really a conspiracy. In fact I think at its core you could call it "science". Oh look, from the evil bastion of liberals called California no less! I guess you'll just be mystified at how such research was published instead of re-addressing your internal bias. It can't just be in your head now can it???