Interesting ice extent maps from 1901 and beyond

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8. speaking of anecdotes

Speaking of anecdotal evidence, a few years back Mcintyre and Mckitrick (often referred to as the M&M twins) of ClimateAudit.org pushed a poster that used data from ships logs to demonstrate that hurricanes were not worsening in the Gulf of Mexico.

The records they used stretched back to the mid-1800's and the number of vessel logs they cited seemed high by at least two orders of magnitude.

Poster's are not peer reviewed and if I recall correctly they got it in at the AGU summer meeting.

The problem with the so-called 'skeptics' is that they aren't looking for truth, just a paycheck. We've learned that Fred Singer was apparently being paid a 5k a month 'stipend' as a climate science skeptic.