Global Sea Ice Area

Data analyst Zoe Phin just posted some interesting, surprising results on global sea ice area.

Data sources like the National Snow and Ice Data Center show global sea ice has been” drastically decreasing for a long time” and so we need to panic and overhaul the entire carbon economy. We hear this daily in the media.

Surprising global sea ice area findings

But Zoe has analyzed what she characterizes as a “very legitimate source” of data from NASA, (here, or here). And according to her findings, the data from these sources suggest global sea ice loss is not as dramatic as some institutes would like us to believe it is. In fact there ‘s been a gain!

Zoe plotted the data going back 40 years, from 1982 to 2021, the “Global Sea Ice Area Fraction”, which “is a proportion of the entire Earth’s surface that is ice over water.”

Global sea ice area linear regression trend: From 0.03625 to 0.03631, which is +0.171%. Chart: Zoe’s Insights

“As you can see, about 3.6% (on average) of our planet’s area is covered in ice over water,” reports Zoe. “In the last 40 years, ice over water has INCREASED, and not decreased, as popularly claimed.”

According to Zoe, the observed increase is equivalent to ~30,600 km², or “roughly the size of Belgium”.

Northern hemisphere sea ice area has declined

The northern hemisphere has decreased, and this has gotten lots of attention from alarmists and the media:

Northern hemisphere linear regression trend: -15.707%. Chart: Zoe’s Insights

More than offset by southern hemisphere gain

However, the loss over the northern hemisphere has been more than compensated by the gains in the southern hemisphere, which we never hear about.

Southern hemisphere linear regression trend: +19.947%! Chart: Zoe’s Insights

How many of you have read this in the mainstream media?

Read Zoe’s entire post here.

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