I have long been expecting a contrarian to latch onto the Arctic sea ice situation. I thought it might have been the loon Christopher Booker but mysterious Steven Goddard (the invisible man) continues to try to deceive. Still peddling the false assumption that, year on year that if the ice melt isn’t greater than the previous year, then AGW doesn’t hold up.
He craftily reproduces one of NSIDC’s graphs (which he calls ‘alarming’ – but nobody else does – see the attempt to start a false argument or whatever it is in rhetoric terms) - but conveniently leaves out their detailed discussions of the daily changing situation. For the real McCoy, go to :-
Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis
He also raises the question about a large discrepancy between ‘other’ graphs.
If he had bothered to follow some links in the NSIDC graph, he would have seen this:-
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/disclaimer1.html
i.e. all the ‘other’ graphs are derived from the same NASA data so it’s all down to pixel interpretation