Arctic ice is thick, air temperatures are running far below normal, and North Atlantic sea surface temperatures are below normal. It doesn’t get much worse than that for people wanting to sea the Arctic melt.
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But the melting point of ice has been adjusted!
I hope someone remembered to tell the ice.
GISS will just announce it by proclamation.
New CAGW talking point:
“Ice? Bah, the ice is already gone. That is sea foam you are seeing. Thick, continuous, very, very firm sea foam. Just like we predicted…”
You’re ‘avin” a graph Steve, its all melting.
Steve, someone forgot to check the temperature before posting this chart of sea surface anomaly.
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/ophi/color_anomaly_NPS_ophi0.png
Yes you did to forget to check this map
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/tafb/atl_anom.gif
My point was that the mean temperature graph shows well below normal temperatures for the arctic but NOAA shows a average/higher than average sea surface temperature by their anomaly map, it does not make sense to me. I would have thought that the sea surface would be the ice surface and therefore reflect a colder anomaly rather than a warmer one in the arctic.
Wizzum says: “… NOAA shows a average/higher than average sea surface temperature by their anomaly map, it does not make sense to me….”
This article explains what is done:
E.M. continues with a nice analysis of how they manage to make the Arctic red hot.
While I was scrounging around looking for that article I ran across a few other old articles woth reading:
Adjustments to the Sea Surface Temperature set done in the revision to HADsst3 – OUCH!
http://judithcurry.com/2012/03/15/on-the-adjustments-to-the-hadsst3-data-set-2/
CRU, NCDC, and GISS not Scientific: It’s a definition thing…
OH, and just to make things even more interesting it seems the Chinese Military had hacked into the satellites, used for earth climate and terrain observation.. back in 2011.
NOAA shows ice covered water as having an above normal SST. Complete nonsense.
Steve,
That is the smear from human inhabited land based stations to all over the Arctic. I am sure GISS is very careful as to which station they use too. (The warmer the better.)
For the last 2 years!!! the Gulf of Mexico has been much colder than normal. No hurricanes can survive there.
Not so fast ‘beautiful’; take a look at these before making blanket proclamations like that:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/summary_atlc_2012.pdf
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/summary_atlc_2013.pdf
Also recall Hurricane Sandy was in 2012, and forget not that currents from the Gulf flow up along the coast in that apart of the Atlantic as well …
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Re Great lakes ice, it is officially gone now, but who thinks that icebergs/pressure ridges like this one would have melted in a week sitting in <40F water?
http://www.accuweather.com/en/outdoor-articles/beach-marine/icebergs-spotted-in-lake-super/28511502?partner=bermanb
Rain will do in snow and ice faster than anything else. That article said the lake water was “only 34 Fahrenheit”
Where are the pictures of stranded Polar Bears in the Great Lakes…??…
Make the children cry…
It’s not gone just yet.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/06/mile-long-icezilla-imaged-by-landsat/
That’s magic lake foam, that’s what it is! It’s hydrogen pollution created by fishing boats! They make foam in the water, and it NEVER EVER EVER goes away. We’re all doomed to death by foam!
Cry for the children! …. and then send money.
Ruh! Roh!
Over at Huff Po they’re linking everything to Climate Change… every flood, drought, World Cup in Brazil hotter than ever… Pakistan floods due to extra CO2…
Every Weather event no matter how normal across the Globe on a Yearly basis is now attributed to Climate Change… they just don’t stop…
North Atlantic sea surface temperatures are below normal..and that’s all folks