Chris Mooney at the Washington Post has a wonderful piece debunking a recent Forbes post by Heartland's increasingly irrelevant James Taylor. Unsurprisingly, Taylor tries to mislead readers by saying that polar ice has stopped shrinking and started growing back, so climate change isn't anything to worry about.
But in reality, there's been a 5.5% downtrend in sea ice area (the more accurate term) over the period in question, so Taylor's whole post is simply wrong. By using vague and unscientific terminology and by cherry-picking a short time period, he managed to write something that has been passed around the deniersphere as evidence that "all is well."
This is exactly the type of deception that we've seen before, so it's just another opportunity to point to the great .giffrom Skeptical Science showing the difference between the denier approach and an honest one.
As usual, we see that in the case of polar ice, those two approaches are polar opposites.
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