arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008
The area of sea ice on Earth has been within three percent of the satellite era mean – for all of 2013. McKibben says it is so hot this summer in the Southern Hemisphere, that BOM had to add two new colors of red to their maps.
This ‘satellite era mean’ is missing the 2009-2012 data. Those were lean years and would make current data look even more ‘average’.
Panic and raise taxes.
Aww…
You didn’t tighten your percentages to artificially increase the vertical variability.
Now Appell won’t hire you when you lose your truth defense job.
The BoM added the new colors to their forecast maps. Strangely, the colors aren’t in the scale for their maps of actual temps; probably because they’re too embarrassed by their lack of forecasting skill.
On how new hot purple didn’t trump unfashionable old brown:
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/02/how-well-did-that-50-degree-forecast-work-out-for-the-bom/
If McKibben or Appell came to where I live in South East Queensland – in the sub tropics at 27 degrees South – a similar latitude from the equator as Miami Florida – they would know that there have been very few days where the temperature has exceeded 30 degrees C since September 2010 – 2 years and five months.
They would know that we have had 2 of the wettest years since 1974 following a prolonged dry period from about 2002.
They would know that temperatures have been below for average that all of us have saved a small fortune on our air conditioning bills.
They would know that the percentage of sunny days is way below normal.
Or have they forgotten the extent of flooding in Australia since September 2010 ?
Who cares about BoM anyway – they can add as many colours as they like their accuracy will not improve – they didn’t even give definitive advice when it was needed – prior to the 2011 flood event in Brisbane when clear unequivocal warnings would have demanded the Wivenhoe dam be prepared for imminent floods by releasing water to lower dam levels.
When they did advise it was too late for anything other than emergency releases during an intense rain event in order to avoid complete overtopping of the predominantly Earth embankment dam built solely for flood mitigation originally.
Who cares about BoM anyway !!!
Exactly…those colours were added onto the model because ACCESS forecasted temps of 54C, 162 hours out.
And what happened? All the runs after that came back to reality and didn’t show above 48 again. Temps reached 49.4C in South Australia, and no record was broken, which must have greatly hurt the BOM credibility wise.