Daily Archives: September 23, 2010

Correction : reader John Finn has pointed out that GISS recorded February as the second hottest February ever, not the hottest. ————————————————————————————————— February, 2010 was a very cold month across the US, much of Europe and most of Russia and … Continue reading →

NSIDC measures 15% concentration ice. DMI measures 30% concentration ice. NSIDC always reports more ice, because they measure it at a lower threshold. The graph above normalises the two by visually lining up 2007 – NSIDC dashed and DMI red. … Continue reading →

NCAR graph from 1975 showing rapid cooling after WWII. Our friends didn’t like the fact that temperatures cooled dramatically when they were supposed to be rising (due to the carbon sins of mankind.) So they found a way to blame … Continue reading →

http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/images/namgnld_season1.gif The long term trend is also upwards. Note the two peaks in the late 1970s and at present.

Some people imagine Antarctica to be like this : [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1wpiduHWbo] They visualize that either through man caused global warming, or man caused global cooling, the ice sheet is going to slide down a steep slope into the ocean and flood … Continue reading →

A different form of global climate disruption – he was warning us of a human induced ice age.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG41xDxrzI8]

NSIDC released the map above in early August, showing ice older than one year as turquoise or green.  Any of that ice which survives the winter will be classified as multi-year ice next spring  (MYI.) But there was a large … Continue reading →