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I’ve grown discouraged with Bill Steffen’s continuous attempts to sway public opinion on AGW by citing anecdotal evidence. To have the source he cited refute his assertions is a clear reminder that his opinions are biased.

That said — I am still a huge Bill Steffen fan, he is a great weather forecaster and a great representative of our community.

I have received several question about the post from your local
meteorologist. I’ll attach my response to the last person who asked
about this. Please let me know if this doesn’t answer your question.

Thanks,

Bill

Joe,

The 2008 summer sea ice did “recover” some from the extreme 2007
summer sea ice minimum, however, it was still the second lowest in the
last 30 years and the second lowest in the last 108 years according to
our long term ice extent data. I certainly wouldn’t call this good
news. The author of the blog is correct that it probably is
misleading to show a three year trend of sea ice as an example of
rapid ice loss (although I didn’t see the story). However, the author
goes on to make an even worse assertion that Arctic sea ice is not
melting by comparing one year to the very next.

Climate change, is just that – a change in the climate – not a change
from one year to the next. There is probably too much attention being
paid (by both sides of the debate) to year-to-year variations in these
variables, and not enough being paid to the long term trends.

Thanks so much for writing and your interest in the cryosphere.

Sincerely,

Bill Chapman

I’m disappointed in Jim Cantore. I wonder what he really thinks — apart from the Weather Channel.

Send us a little snow every now and then. Winter is boring without it!