I read the Daily Tech report a month or so ago and concluded exactly what George Will did, why? Because its entitled “Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979.” That is not George Will writing, its a report from the Univ. of Illinois.

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Then there was the coup de grace wherein U of ILL then tries to backtrack by describing Will adding both the South Pole and North Pole together, yeah, OK, like U of Ill did.

Then three days later we have the coup coup de grace wherein Artic Sea Ice News notes a bum sensor on the weather satellite caused “a slowly growing underestimation of Arctic sea ice extent.”

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It is likely that not only is George Will correct, but given the new data his claim is actually understated by around 193,000 sq. miles of ice not previously counted.