NSIDC is upset that unusually cold Arctic weather sabotaged their ice forecasts
As a whole, air temperatures this summer have been below average over most of the central Arctic Ocean and Greenland, helping to slow down ice melting. Compared to the 1981 to 2010 average, air temperatures at the 925 hPa level have been -0.5 to -2.0 degrees Celsius (-0.9 to -3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) below average over central Greenland, north of Greenland and towards the pole, and over the Canadian Archipelago. Unusually low temperatures are also noted over the East Siberian Sea, where ice cover has remained near average throughout the summer.
Meanwhile, Hansen is predicting 30ºC Arctic warming.
Our calculated global warming in this case is 16°C, with warming at the poles approximately 30°C. Calculated warming over land areas averages approximately 20°C.
Romm calls Hansen “the country’s most prescient climatologist” because he is a complete lunatic who has paid no attention to actual temperature data for the past 15 years.
“Romm calls Hansen “the country’s most prescient climatologist” because he is a complete lunatic who has paid no attention to actual temperature data for the past 15 years.”
Apart from corrupting it, of course…
There is that; quite so; hear hear; jolly good that (murmuring crowd approval).
I don’t know where to leave tips and leads so here goes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425934/Greenpeace-ship-stormed-armed-Russian-officials-arrest-Britons-protesting-oil-drilling-Arctic.html
The NSIDC funding seems to be based on alarmism and AGW cheerleading instead of sound science.
“Romm calls Hansen “the country’s most prescient climatologist” because he…”
… would not be able to land or keep a job if he told the truth.
Since none of the ‘global models’ currently take any account of heat going into the ‘deep ocean’ (© K Trenberth), Hansen’s model of doom is about as much junk as his 1988 junk temperature predictions.