Arctic Lower Tropospheric Temp Trends Since 1979: ‘There has been warming over period of record. However, it is relatively small’
Climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.: 'Interestingly, there is not much of an Arctic amplification of warming...It is not clear how this modest lower tropospheric warming would have resulted in such large Arctic sea ice melting unless i) the warmth was accompanied by less cloudiness than average, and ii) the sea ice was always very marginally close to melting'
