Offered as evidence that documenting climate change (or the lack thereof, depending on your point-of-view) isn’t as easy as the mass-media and pop culture would have you believe, seen at Watts Up With That:
Just when you thought this season’s cryosphere couldn’t be more strange …. The Southern Hemisphere sea ice area narrowly surpassed the previous historic maximum of 16.03 million sq. km to 16.17 million sq. km.
Personally, I’ve been of the opinion that I can believe that human-influenced climate change is occurring, augmented by long-and-short term climate cycles, which when put together creates a very complex puzzle. To the extent that some of this is preventable…or at least that preparations can be made for whatever the new climate norm ends up being… I worry that public support, currently inflamed by factoids and sensationalism in the media, could wane if a short-term cycle contrary to the long-term trend emerges.
Bah. Kids these days just have no appreciation for and too little understanding the beauty of a truly complex dynamic model.
