Record Breaking Weather

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The extent of sea ice surrounding the Arctic and Antarctic regions are both at record lows for this time of year — marking the first time scientists have simultaneously tracked record low ice levels around each of the planet’s poles.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/1...story.html

This kind of argument only gives support to those who deny climate change. This shows information from 1978 - 2016. A blink in time when seen in historical perspective. 
That's called weather. 
The weather during this period may well be the result of climate change brougnt about by human activity on the globe, but it also may be only an anomaly akin to other short periods when we know sea ice melted, only to freeze again during another change toward more colder periods. 
"Climate Change" when discussed by scientists includes many, many, factors that laymen are hard pressed to process. 

What we do know, is that vast majority of scientists around the planet who's disciple is the study of climate, have agreed that our climate is changing and that human behavior is at least in large part responsbile. I doubt that many would agree a study of a few short years would prove the point. 

Let's be careful about the informaton we present here.

 
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I disagree that information from 1978 - 2016. is nothing but weather and doesn't prove anything. I don't think anyone claims is CONCLUSIVE proof. But it is consistent with what our scientists.climatologists have been telling us.
 If you are waiting for proof this is human caused I don't think you will ever get it.
What this info does is make it LIKELY that this record breaking weather is human caused.


 IMO it's like building a case for a murder trial. You give all the information you can that will make a jury think we are experiencing climate change.
You present all of the record breaking weather that seems to happen more and more each year or each decade.

The the Jury.. US. Decides what thing think is happening beyond a reasonable doubt.




https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201...ak-records

Here is some more blink in time information .........

Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, with an average temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century.
 

The extent of Arctic sea ice at the peak of the summer melt season now typically covers 40 percent less area than it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arctic sea ice extent in September, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been declining at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade.


"It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme," Meier said. "This warmth as well as unusual weather patterns have led to the record low sea ice extents so far this year."