<![CDATA[Historical Ice Information Is Worthless]]>Cryosphere Today has this graph on their website, purporting to show accelerating ice loss since 1900. It appears entertaining, except for the fact that the data is garbage.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seasonal.extent.1900-2010.png

Note the two circles which I drew for 1974 and 1979. It appears there was a lot less ice in 1979 than  1974. Sadly for the data fabricators, we have satellite data from that period (which NSIDC chooses to ignore) that shows that there was a lot more Arctic ice in 1979 than 1974.

www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_full_report.pdf

Similarly, the CIA reported in 1974 a 10-15% increase in Arctic ice over the previous few years. 

www.climatemonitor.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1974.pdf

The Cryosphere Today graph shows the exact opposite. It is complete garbage, and looks like someone just took a pencil and made up data.

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