At best, you are exaggerating. Tell me which of the following claims in the article are false:
1) BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013
2) Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
You said it's complete bollocks so let me know how the two items above are false or kindly admit you were exaggerating which does nobody advocating for AGW any favors.
There are obviously serious problems with the article - for example - I thought this part was ridiculous:
The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship attempting the route was forced to turn back.
Their apparent surprise of "The Northwest Passage" being blocked as being a major thing is just silly. It was blocked for most of the year until 2009. But I think it's better to point out things like that than to dismiss it as "complete bollocks" which is fairly easily falsifiable which reduces your credibility.
Oh for goodness sake. The article is deliberately misleading. A few nuggets of 'truth' within doesn't change that at all.
>1) BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013
Well that isn't strictly true. The BBC reported that some US scientists had made a prediction that the arctic 'could' be ice free by 2013. Of course the BBC reporting of that was pretty irresponsible, at least in the headline. Maslowski's actual prediction was for a range of years, with 2013 being at the low end and he is quoted in the article[1] saying "It might not be as early as 2013 but it will be soon, much earlier than 2040". For what it's worth I still think his productions will prove closer to reality than the not ice free till after 2040 ones.
>2) Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
I will assume that this statistic is correct, but it is still very misleading. That is not a 'recovery' when you look at the longer trend: it doesn't make up for the losses to extent over recent years never mind decades. That is why I linked the above graph to put it into context. An increase from the all time low is hardly surprising at all. So this is an example of a lie of omission: they neglect to put the figure into the wider context. We could also quibble about mentioning only extent and not volume.
Oh for goodness sake. The article is deliberately misleading. A few nuggets of 'truth' within doesn't change that at all.
So here's the lesson. Say what you mean without exaggeration.
Because when you said it's "complete bollocks" what you actually meant was that it was misleading. When you exaggerate like that, it makes it seem like you're pushing an agenda.
The "60% increase" story is mis-reporting regression towards the mean. Long story short is, 2012 was a particularly bad year for arctic sea ice, 2013 was significantly better, but still on the thirty year trend line.
"Sometime earlier this week a cargo ship passed through the Northwest Passage into Baffin Bay, along Greenland’s southwestern coast, making it the first bulk carrier ever to make the voyage. This journey was completed by the Nordic Orion, a 225-meter, ice-strengthened vessel loaded with coal in Vancouver, British Columbia and headed for Finland."
At best, you are exaggerating. Tell me which of the following claims in the article are false:
1) BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013
2) Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
You said it's complete bollocks so let me know how the two items above are false or kindly admit you were exaggerating which does nobody advocating for AGW any favors.
There are obviously serious problems with the article - for example - I thought this part was ridiculous:
The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship attempting the route was forced to turn back.
Their apparent surprise of "The Northwest Passage" being blocked as being a major thing is just silly. It was blocked for most of the year until 2009. But I think it's better to point out things like that than to dismiss it as "complete bollocks" which is fairly easily falsifiable which reduces your credibility.