<div>I should clarify that I do not agree with the article title in the subject heading that 2010 Arctic ice trends "dispels melting gloom." I was pointing out what I think is a major error in the article, as my original post indicates at website below:</div>
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<div><a href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2010-June/070680.html">http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2010-June/070680.html</a></div>
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<div>The article you referenced made the point that orbital variations (Milankovitch Cycles, though the article does not mention this specifically) should now be tending to increase Arctic sea ice. I made the general point that Milankovitch Cycles should now be cooling Earth's climate in an op-ed in the Moscow/Pullman Daily news in Feb. 2007. The article can be read at this website:</div>
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<div><a href="http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2007-February/041709.html">http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2007-February/041709.html</a></div>
<div><br>It is interesting that many of the anthropogenic climate warming skeptics insist natural variables are mainly causing the observed warming of climate, not human impacts, while they apparently dismiss the science that indicates natural variables may at this point be tending to cool the Earth's climate.</div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/27/10, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">(Say What?)<br><br>"This ice loss appears to be unmatched over at least the last few thousand<br>years and unexplainable by any of the known natural variabilities."<br>
<br>- from abstract of new report, History of Sea Ice in the Arctic<br><br><a href="http://tinyurl.com/Canwest-Publishing">http://tinyurl.com/Canwest-Publishing</a><br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>Seeya at the "Head Shed" tomorrow, Moscow.<br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br>
<br>- Unknown<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>