Arctic Ice Sheets start 2016 in the hole

Look at the trend

I have marked the years 2010 – up to the first data for 2016. The dark line is the 1981 – 2010 average.


The small red line you see in the picture above is the starting point for 2016.

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The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer,....
True

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Snopes: Claim: A 1922 newspaper article reported that "radical change in climatic conditions" was melting Arctic ice and disrupting wildlife. TRUE

http://www.snopes.com/politics/scien...______________
Funny that the link you provided isn’t working. Why’s that? Could it be you didn’t want anyone to see the last part of the Snopes article which states,……..

As interesting as this nearly century-old article might be from a modern perspective, however, it isn't substantive evidence either for or against the concept of anthropogenic global warming. As documented elsewhere, the warming phenomena observed in 1922 proved to be indicative only of a local event in Spitzbergen, not a trend applicable to the Arctic as a whole.

The trend (in the Snopes article),……..


Up to date trend,…….