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From: Brumar89	5/1/2012 9:16:31 AM
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When it comes to arctic sea ice, NSIDC confused about when satellite record began: Julienne Says That The Modern Satellite Record Began In 1979 Posted on April 29, 2012 by stevengoddard The Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: a research synthesis Julienne C. Stroeve ·Mark C. Serreze · Marika M. Holland · Jennifer E. Kay · James Malanik ·Andrew P. Barrett Received: 15 February 2011 / Accepted: 22 April 2011 © The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com 1 Introduction Arctic sea ice extent over the modern satellite record (1979–present) shows downward trends in all months, smallest in winter and largest at the end of the summer www.arcus.org/files/projects/supplemental/674/stroeve_etal_seaice_synthesis_2011.pdf The modern satellite record for the Arctic began in 1971, not 1979. Nimbus satellites showed a sharp increase in ice extent from 1974 to 1979. which NSIDC doesn’t like to discuss because it would completely mess up their linear graph below. n_plot.png (420×240) Below is the incline which NSIDC is hiding. From the 1990 IPCC report. www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_full_report.pdf http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/julienne-says-that-the-modern-satellite-record-began-in-1979/