2020 isn't that far away (only three years), but neither is the middle of this spiral now.
I agree....except it is 4 "melt seasons" away (Sept 2020....my bad, I should have been more specific). But yes....it is only 4 more melt seasons away (including this one.....which hasn't started yet.....most likely....hopefully).
And to get down to less than 1 million (which will be in and above the Canadian Archipelago).....I, unfortunately think that is "very doable" to get down to less than 1 million square K. Especially if weather conditions line up appropriately in ANY or a couple of those years.
I was actually trying to make two points:
1) We're getting down "to the nub"....the last few OR several years where there is any significant ice as of MID SEPTEMBER.
2) Calling a group (or individuals) "alarmist" because they believe that MOST of the ice will be gone by 2020 is pretty RIDICULOUS in and of itself when someone looks at the actual numbers of
VOLUME (thank you by the way for posting that) and
AREA. Anyone who would look at ANNUALIZED ice numbers is either (a) missing the point, or (b) intentionally missing the point (Trump would call something like that an "exaggeration".....most people would call it intentionally misleading or an outright lie).
So if those wacky...crazy...zealot's (like me
) are ultimately "wrong" and most ice isn't gone until 2025 or 2030.....what are the other folks who turn out to be wrong when most of the ice is gone in 2020 or 2025......and they said it wouldn't be gone until 2030, 2040 or later?
And lets not forget....that our "friends" on the dark side (Hi Joe Bastardi) were calling for ice to
INCREASE over the past 5 years AND going forward. What do we call them? Idiot seems to fit....as well as lobbyist (in Joes case a paid "lobbyist"/promoter).
Indeed....I would call most of them
LOBBYISTS. Some of them paid....some of them not. And some of them I would call a new breed of animal that was first propagated in the 1990's called a "FOXsheep". It has a FOX head and a sheep body. Also a very small cranium....and an inability for inquiry....and a blinding desire to follow without questioning.