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Lord Stern's squawk box has made one of his grubby sallies into the media today, sounding off in the letters page of the FT in response to an earlier missive from Lord Turnbull. Ward has several gripes - hasn't he always? - one of which is the trend in Arctic sea ice since its minimum a couple of years ago:

The Arctic sea ice has not been recovering since its record minimum in September 2012, and is still on a clear downward trend.

Here, courtesy of Cryosphere Today, is the recent record of Artic sea ice:

I don't know about you, but that looks very much like a recovery from where I'm seated. It's astonishing that Lord Stern feels his spokesman can behave in this way and astonishing that the London School of Economics tolerates it.

The Arctic sea ice has not been recovering since its record minimum in September 2012, and is still on a clear downward trend.

Update on Feb 3, 2014 by

Bishop Hill

Interestingly, Nature has just announced a conference on the very subject of Arctic sea ice.

This meeting explores the recent, rapid Arctic sea ice reduction. We will discuss the evidence for change, the inability of our climate models to predict these changes, the processes responsible for sea ice reduction and improved representation of these processes in climate models, and the impacts of sea ice change on local and global weather and climate.