Watts will organize his followers and other denier blogs and will completely shred any credibility Neven's blog has.
Thanks for your concern, Friv. I agree up to a certain point and from a certain perspective.
I have no credibility to protect, as I don't feel like I have any. All I can do, is be transparent about what I do, why I do it and what I stand for. People can judge for themselves what they think of me, and whether they think I'm making any sense. If people like Beckwith want to go crazy every melting season, that's up to them.
I'm not going to tire myself too much with what Watts and his band of merry liars think or do. I'm sure Watts' hands are itching to get at me and the Arctic sea ice, but I'm not interested in trying to control the narrative like he is. I will probably be the first to report a 'recovery', and why wouldn't I? If the masses prefer to remain ignorant, that's their choice. Nothing I can do about that.
I'm more interested in what the ice is going to do, and try to understand why. This year is looking more and more like an amazing test case of 'weather vs thin ice, who is dominating'? What if this melting season still gets close to 2012 after a worst-case start? What if volume stays around the same level, and in one of the next meting seasons we get a flying start like 2012? What if there
is a recovery in volume? Have we reached a plateau? Are negative feedbacks kicking in? Are they tied to changes in hemispheric circulation? Etc, etc, etc...
I admit I'm also curious what Watts and other fake skeptics will do if this melting season turns out to be a 'recovery'. They've been hurt very bad by the ice in the past couple of years. Arctic sea ice is a huge problem for them, so on the one hand they will be happy to announce a 'recovery', on the other hand they might hesitate, because they've screwed up a couple of times already.
We'll see.
But don't worry about me or the Arctic Sea Ice Blog. I'm irrelevant and like all things the ASIB shows a classic bell curve. It starts out great, reaches a peak, but then slowly fades away. From my perspective we're still working towards the peak.
Back to business: What's the ice doing?