Apparently, the Arctic Ice Melted Away Since 128 Years Ago

Hysterically screaming warnings that the Arctic ice is all melting away aren’t new. The New York Times has been doing it for 128 years:

1881: “This past Winter, both inside and outside the Arctic circle, appears to have been unusually mild. The ice is very light and rapidly melting …”

1932: “NEXT GREAT DELUGE FORECAST BY SCIENCE; Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents”

1934: “New Evidence Supports Geology’s View That the Arctic Is Growing Warmer”

1937: “Continued warm weather at the Pole, melting snow and ice.”

1954: “The particular point of inquiry concerns whether the ice is melting at such a rate as to imperil low-lying coastal areas through raising the level of the sea in the near future.”

1957: “U.S. Arctic Station Melting”

1958: “At present, the Arctic ice pack is melting away fast. Some estimates say that it is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent smaller than it was fifteen years [ago].”

1959: “Will the Arctic Ocean soon be free of ice?”

1971: “STUDY SAYS MAN ALTERS CLIMATE; U.N. Report Links Melting of Polar Ice to His Activities”

1979: “A puzzling haze over the Arctic ice packs has been identified as a byproduct of air pollution, a finding that may support predictions of a disastrous melting of the earth’s ice caps.”

1982: “Because of global heating attributed to an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide from fuel burning, about 20,000 cubic miles of polar ice has melted in the past 40 years, apparently contributing to a rise in sea levels …”

1999: “Evidence continues to accumulate that the frozen world of the Arctic and sub-Arctic is thawing.”

2000: “The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday.”

2002: “The melting of Greenland glaciers and Arctic Ocean sea ice this past summer reached levels not seen in decades, scientists reported today.”

2004: “There is an awful lot of Arctic and glacial ice melting.”

2005: “Another melancholy gathering of climate scientists presented evidence this month that the Antarctic ice shelf is melting – a prospect difficult to imagine a decade ago.”

From Daily Telegraph via Moonbattery, which have links to each headline.

You would think such hsyterical alarmism would be long dead after 128 years of the same, flat out wrong predictions… Especially since Arctic ice is at the same levels as 1979 despite ever-increasing CO2 levels.

Even if the entire North Pole melts, it won’t really be as big a hoo-hah as the New York Times suggests. To understand why, add ice cubes to your drink until it reaches the brim and wait for the ice to all melt.

What’s more, any Arctic melt is more than compensated by record high and ever-increasing ice levels at the Antarctic – where in contrast to the floating, sea-bound Arctic ice, the ice and snow is landbound so actually does matter vis-a-vis sea levels.

Don’t worry about that either though… About an electrical transmission tower’s height worth of packed snow will have to melt to even go back to 1979 levels. See the pics and more evidence of a cooling world at Global Warming is Unfactual.