Monthly Archives: August 2011

Currently there are three four Polar Bears in the Himalayas and they will all be gone by 2350 2035. Sorry, these tricky numbers confuse me. The Arctic will be ice free by 2000 2008 2011 2013 2016 2020 or 2030. And … Continue reading →

Russia’s vast permafrost may shrink by a third by the middle of the century due to global warming, the government’s disaster monitoring department said Friday. The report also described the risk of a massive gas release. Permafrost traps methane and … Continue reading →

Barber and his colleagues explain in a recent paper in Geophysical Review Letters, the analysis of what the satellites were seeing was wrong. Some of what satellites identified as thick, melt-resistant multiyear ice turned out to be, in Barber’s words, … Continue reading →

Top scientist says the Arctic is doomed! Last month saw the second lowest Arctic ice cover since 1979, continuing the downward trend of summer ice cover, says the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado. Ice extent shrank in … Continue reading →

GISS raw data shows Brenham, Texas cooling about a degree over the last hundred years. Through the magic of adjustment, GISS has been able to cool the past by two degrees, and turn a strong cooling trend into a strong … Continue reading →

Isn’t that what they invented Viagra for? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FnpaWQJO0]

http://www.arctic.io/observations/8/2011-07-31/5-N79.568501-W67.061524

The hottest summer (by far) in California was 1896. Three of the nine hottest years occurred during that decade, and a fourth in 1901. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/ca.html

If they did, there would be no bears in Hudson Bay – which is always ice free in the summer. We also know that the Arctic was ice free in summer 5,000 years ago. July 14, 2010 “Examination of several … Continue reading →