NOAA's National Climate Data Center is reporting that March 2008 What do these reports mean? Absolutely nothing! There are no valid inferences let alone conclusions that can be made from such a short record of an observation the magnitude of hemispheric sea ice coverage. Scientists now date the Earth at 4.54 billion years old.  Anthropologists widely date the dawn of man to 200,000 years ago. I'd like to use the shop worn eye blink analogy, but an eye blink at 400 milliseconds is much too long for an apt comparison.   (Read Full Post)