MORE PROOF THAT POLAR SNOW AND ICE AMOUNTS HAVE VARIED FOREVER, AND ARE NOT "MAN-MADE"

6/6 UPDATE.

TCS:

Snowfall has been on the increase in parts of the United States and the world to record proportions in recent years even as summer snow and ice levels reach multi-decadal lows.

The changes relate to natural cyclical changes in the Atlantic Ocean and atmosphere that favor both more tropical activity in summer and more snowfall in winters.

Climatologists believe the current phase of the Atlantic cycle may last another decade or two. If this outlook is correct, we might expect both more big snows and hurricanes for years to come.

... As George Taylor summarized on this site in his story "Arctic Sea Ice -- Is It Disappearing?"

"A number of researchers have suggested that inflows of Atlantic water into the Arctic profoundly affect temperatures and sea ice trends in the latter ocean. Polyakov, et al (2004) are among these. The first sentence of their paper states 'Exchanges between the Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean have a profound influence on the circulation and thermodynamics of each basin.' The authors attributed most of the variability to multidecadal variations on time scales of 50-80 years, with warm periods in the 1930s-40s and in recent decades, and cool periods in the 1960s-70s and early in the twentieth century. These are associated with changes in ice extent and thickness (as well as air and sea temperature and ocean salinity). The most likely causative factor involves changes in atmospheric circulation, including but not limited to the Arctic Oscillation"

The article has charts and graphs which prove that the receding ice and increasing snow which the Arctic is currently experiencing is NOT UNUSUAL, AND HAS PROBABLY BEEN OCCURRING REGULARLY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

Therefore, the ranting eco-nuts - like Gore and McCain - who blame HUMANITY and industrializatiuon and man-made CO2 are ALL WRONG.