Just In The Nick Of Time

Climate experts predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free no later than 2015.

CXhM4v2U0AAtmNuWhat climate scientists talk about now – FT.com

Their prediction was not looking good until today – when the third spike of the last two months (up to -1C) melted the last remaining ice cube.

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Fortunately, this disaster occurred after Christmas – and saved Santa Claus.

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Earlier today, sea ice extent was at a 10 year high. But experts say it all melted during one hour at -1C this afternoon.

Screenshot 2015-12-30 at 12.13.32 PM

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

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134 Responses to Just In The Nick Of Time

  1. John Thwaite says:

    And check out the trend on that graph!

    • Jason Calley says:

      Holy Cow! Was that a REAL Greenpeace ad? It is becoming more and more difficult to tell what is real and what is over-the-top parody. After the CAGW exploding school children ad, I have a hard time telling.

    • oeman50 says:

      Wow! A calving glacier. That never happened before industry invented CO2.

  2. OrganicFool says:

    Eskimo Hunters, 1949

    I wonder if Greenies are ready to live like this, the greenest people ever? Very little fossil fuels. Hunt for your food. Animal skins for clothes. Raw meat, very few vegetables. Cold tundra.

    https://youtu.be/b-XP30aG8bE

    • oz4caster says:

      Nice video. This should be mandatory training for everyone who wants to ditch all fossil fuels and save the Arctic from supposed man-made global warming.

    • Thanks for the link—I watched it last night. I expected adversity but I also found very uplifting the matter-of-fact, contented and cheerful way the family members went about their hardscrabble daily life. I understand it was partially staged—it would be difficult for the cameraman to be at the right place and not a hindrance when the father shot the seal and the caribou. I’m also sure a subsistence hunter buying his own Winchester rounds would have taken a longer aim after bringing up his rifle or that it’s impossible to throw a haul-back line perfectly into the water every time as shown. And I assume they all enjoyed the attention and distraction this filming gave them in the monotonous winter life of their village. Nevertheless, there is nothing faux about the approach to life this film shows.

      I think all schoolchildren should watch this documentary and not just for the reasons you listed. So should many parents.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9PyW259YWY

  3. Richard Keen says:

    The WaPo says the near freezing recorded and/or modeled temperatures at/near the North Pole were 50 degrees above normal.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/30/freak-storm-has-pushed-north-pole-to-freezing-point-50-degrees-above-normal/
    A few days ago, Chihuahua, Mexico, had a foot of snow and temperatures near zero, or about 50 degrees below normal.
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/29/noaas-new-pauses-buster-sea-surface-temperature-data-the-curiosities-extend-into-the-1st-half-of-the-20th-century/#comment-2109372
    Funny how nature likes to even things out, unlike our climate models that predict “tipping points”.

  4. Robertv says:

    “During cooler climatic periods, however, the high-altitude winds are broken up into irregular cells by weaker and more plentiful pressure centers, causing formation of a “meridional circulation” pattern. These small, weak cells may stagnate over vast areas for many months, bringing unseasonably cold weather on one side and unseasonably warm weather on the other. Droughts and floods become more frequent and may alternate season to season,”

    https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/in-1975-scientists-blamed-jet-stream-dips-on-global-cooling/

    • Dmh says:

      Thanks for the link. The comment continues
      Thus, while the hemisphere as a whole is cooler, individual areas may alternately break temperature and precipitation records at both extremes. If global temperatures should fall even further, the effects could be considerably more drastic.

      Depending on the amount of energy still stored on the oceans, due to the solar grand maximum of the XX century, we may see some abnormal localized high (and cold) temperatures, but with solar radiation declining this scenario will probably not last very long.
      Probably not after 2017 world’s temperatures should stabilize with marked lower averages than now.

      If this happens, this El Nino, and following La Nina, will define another step change in world’s temps- similar to the 1997-2001 event- this time breaking the “hiatus” towards a *lowering trend* worldwide.

  5. Robertv says:

    The same jet stream bringing cold weather to Turkey.

    http://cci-reanalyzer.org/DailySummary/

    Mus, Erzurum, Van and surrounding areas in eastern Turkey face substantial snow as UNSEASONABLY cold air plunges southward from eastern Europe and a pair of storm systems arrive from the Mediterranean Sea.

    http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/biggest-snowstorm-so-far-eastern-turkey/54467733

    • Gail Combs says:

      Extreme weather is indicative not of ‘global warming’ but of a climate getting close to Glacial Inception where the earth flips from the warm phase to the cool phase.

      “The lesson from the last interglacial “greenhouse” in the Bahamas is that the closing of that interval brought sea-level changes that were rapid and extreme. This has prompted the remark that between the greenhouse and the icehouse lies a climatic “madhouse”! — Neuman and Hearty (1996)

  6. eliza says:

    GC is Correct…. usually lower temps involved with greater precipitation storms ect due to Gradient temp DIFFERENCES between NORMAL warmer tropical but COLDER polar areas air masses.

    • Gail Combs says:

      That was taught in Geo 101 as the cause of glaciation. I can remember the Prof. saying glaciation was not caused by really cold temperatures but by polar air masses colliding with warm tropical air masses and dropping tons of snow. If it is too cold you just do not get much snow. That is why Antarctica is a polar desert.

      Glaciation also needs cool summers.

  7. AndyG55 says:

    Hey, did y’all know that since in the 20th century, despite all the fabricated warming, that Greenland maintained 99.7% of its mass. How scary is that, hey !!!

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/30/greenland-retained-99-7-of-its-ice-mass-in-20th-century/

  8. cfgjd says:

    Looks like the “arctic sea ice recovery” has been cancelled? Is solar activity or perhaps UHI to blame?

    • gator69 says:

      How about natural variabilty? Or have you hit your head again, and forgotten that natural variability has never been disproven?

      • cfgjd says:

        This does not look like natural variability, unless a change of regime can be called natural. LIA ended 150 years ago or thereabouts, what is causing the recent rapid Arctic warming? Perhaps it was the unproven tampering of US temperature records?

        • gator69 says:

          It looks perfectly natural. If you remove a block of ice from a freezer, does it stop melting after the first minute?

          And let’s just put it out there again…

          1- List all climate forcings, order them from most to least effectual, and then quantify them all.

          2- Please provide even one peer reviewed paper that refutes natural variability as the cause of recent, or any, global climate changes.

          There is nothing unusual or unprecedented about our climate, or how we got here. For 4,500,000,000 years climates have always changed, naturally. This means there has been a set precedent, and the burden of proof falls on natural climate change deniers like yourself.

          Remember this from waaaay back?

          cfgjd says:
          December 9, 2015 at 3:27 pm
          Submit to a Journal or it does not exist…simple rule.

          So refutation of natural variability “does not exist”! 😆

        • Gail Combs says:

          I will mention that there are possible lunar causes too.
          Paper: The influence of the lunar nodal cycle on Arctic climate

          lunar papers in Geoscience World (Most are not on climate)

          Up to and including the ~1500 year relative movement from the equator to the pole and back. SWAG department: link

          QBO is a lunar-solar forced system (References two further papers)
          and A Remarkable Lunar Paper and Numbers on Major Standstill

        • Dmh says:

          You know nothing about AMO, do you?

        • AndyG55 says:

          And its not as if he hasn’t been shown.

          He just is either totally incompetent to understand, and/or suffering wilful ignorance.

        • Latitude says:

          LIA ended 150 years ago…

          First they tell you the LIA ended in 1850….then when temps continued to climb at the same rate…
          ….they tell you it’s global warming

        • AndyG55 says:

          If we take nomalies relative to 1951-1980 unadjusted GHCN v2 means for Akureyri, Grimsey, Hofn Island, Teigarhorn, Reykjavik, Keflavik and Stykkisholmur, doesn’t matter which is which. (the black line is the 5-year average) we see the standard pattern of the AMO with the superimposed climb out of the LIA.

          http://s19.postimg.org/45zuayng3/iceland.jpg

          Enough newspaper articles exist to show a quite rapid decrease in Arctic sea ice around 1920-1940, and an increase from about 1945-1970. (a hunt back through SG’s posts will yield many)

          As you can see there is a pronounced bulge in the temperatures in the 1930-1940’s.

          I suspect that if we had accurate data for Arctic sea ice levels the pattern would be very close to an inverted version of the temperature graph.

          But of course no “fabrication” by paid alarmista would ever show a big dip around the 1930-1940 time, because that would totally destroy the whole propaganda story.

      • Gail Combs says:

        “….LIA ended 150 years ago or thereabouts, what is causing the recent rapid Arctic warming?….”
        >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
        Hopefully, unlike Martin, you are willing to look at the peer-reviewed papers I am referencing.

        So what could be a possible cause of the recent warm period since the LIA ended?
        The Grand Solar Maximum, the highest activity in 3000 years. SEE: A History of Solar Activity over Millennia Usoskin et al. (2014) and reviews at the end.
        The ignoring of the sun by the IPCC is shown in the paper Recent variability of the solar spectral irradiance and its impact on climate modelling (2013)

        Ice cores from the Freemont Glacier show it went from Little Ice Age cold to Modern Warming warm in the ten years around 1850.

        ABSTRACT
        An ice core removed from the Upper Fremont Glacier in Wyoming provides evidence for abrupt climate change during the mid-1800s….

        At a depth of 152 m the refined age-depth profile shows good agreement (1736±10 A.D.) with the 14C age date (1729±95 A.D.). The ?18O profile of the Upper Fremont Glacier (UFG) ice core indicates a change in climate known as the Little Ice Age (LIA)….

        At this depth, the age-depth profile predicts an age of 1845 A.D. Results indicate the termination of the LIA was abrupt with a major climatic shift to warmer temperatures around 1845 A.D. and continuing to present day. Prediction limits (error bars) calculated for the profile ages are ±10 years (90% confidence level). Thus a conservative estimate for the time taken to complete the LIA climatic shift to present-day climate is about 10 years, suggesting the LIA termination in alpine regions of central North America may have occurred on a relatively short (decadal) timescale.
        http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/1999JD901095/full

        Dr. Evans Solar Notch-Delay Theory predicts a delay of about 11 years from a change in solar conditions to a change in earth climate.

        So what happened around 1840? Solar Cycle 8.
        It began in November 1833 with a smoothed sunspot number of 7.3 and ended in July 1843. Max sunspot number ~210. The prior Solar Cycle 7 began in May 1823 with a smoothed sunspot number of 0.1 and ended in November 1833. Max sunspot number ~105. And thus began the Grand Solar Maximum, highest in 3,000 years which has just ended.

        http://www.solen.info/solar/cycles1_24.png

        And in further news from Royal Astronomical Society (RAS):
        “Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030s, to ‘mini ice age’ levels: Sun driven by double dynamo.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 July 2015.

        http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150709092955.htm.

        COMMENTS ON Usoskin et al. (2014)

        According to Usoskin et al. (2014), the Sun “shows strong variability in its magnetic activity, from Grand minima to Grand maxima, but the nature of the variability is not fully understood, mostly because of the insufficient length of the directly observed solar activity records and of uncertainties related to long-term reconstructions.”
        Now, however, in an attempt to overcome such uncertainties, Usoskin et al. “present the first fully adjustment-free physical reconstruction of solar activity” covering the past 3,000 years, which record allowed them “to study different modes of solar activity at an unprecedented level of detail.”

        As a “unique” and “rare” event in terms of both magnitude and duration, one would think a lot more time and effort would be spent by the IPCC and others in answering that question.
        Instead, IPCC scientists have conducted relatively few studies of the Sun’s influence on modern warming, assuming that the temperature influence of this rare and unique Grand maximum of solar activity, which has occurred only once in the past 3,000 years, is far inferior to the radiative power provided by the rising CO2 concentration of the Earth’s atmosphere….
        http://www.co2science.org/articles/V17/N32/C1.php

        A review of “A History of Solar Activity over Millennia” by Ilya G. Usoskin
        Grand maxima of solar activity:
        http://solarphysics.livingreviews.org/open?pubNo=lrsp-2008-3&page=articlesu16.html

        Keeping possible uncertainties in mind, let us consider a list of the largest grand maxima (the 50 year smoothed sunspot number stably exceeding 50), identified for the last 11,400 years using 14C data, as shown in Table 2 (after Usoskin et al., 2007). A total of 19 grand maxima have been identified with a total duration of around 1030 years, suggesting that the sun spends around 10% of its time in an active state. A statistical analysis of grand-maxima–occurrence time suggests that they do not follow long-term cyclic variations, but like grand minima, are defined by stochastic/chaotic processes. The distribution of the waiting time between consecutive grand maxima is not as clear as that for grand minima, but also hints at a deviation from exponential law. The duration of grand maxima has a smooth distribution, which nearly exponentially decreases towards longer intervals. Most of the reconstructed grand maxima (about 75%) were not longer than 50 years, and only four grand minima (including the modern one) have been longer than 70 years. This suggest that the probability of the modern active-sun episode continuing is low5 (cf. Solanki et al., 2004; Abreu et al., 2008)

    • Dave G says:

      What are you talking about? Isn’t water still frozen at 0C?

  9. cfgjd says:

    Looks like we will enter 2016 from a very low Arctic Sea Ice Area situation:

    http://meteomodel.pl/klimat/arcticice.png

    • gator69 says:

      And yet we still have more ice in the Arctic than the average of the past 9000 years. Oh well, just weather.

      • cfgjd says:

        How is the situation 9000 years ago relevant now that AGU has caused Arctic temperatures to skyrocket so that the polar vortex is getting hit? Remember the time when the arctic mostly stayed in the arctic and warm weather didn’t pummel the North Pole in the middle of winter? Me too.

        • gator69 says:

          If you cherry pick this most recent cool period, you can convince yourself that the current situation is special. it’s not.

          I will see your 150 years and raise you 9000. Or you can just go on denying the climate history of our planet.

        • Jason Calley says:

          “How is the situation 9000 years ago relevant”

          cfgjd, the claim by the CAGW adherents is that we are currently experiencing unusual, even unprecedented, climate change — change that is caused by human created CO2 additions to the atmosphere. If, in fact, what we are currently experiencing is neither unusual nor unprecedented , then what we are experiencing cannot be unusual nor unprecedented.

          If someone claims that CO2 has turned them into a newt, when in fact they are NOT a newt, then CO2 is not a witch.

        • David A says:

          Please point me to the scientific paper where CO2 is “predicted” to cause a loopy jet stream.

    • Gail Combs says:

      Interesting that of the two available graphs at http://meteomodel.pl/BLOG/?page_id=10640

      cfgjd picks that one** (Showing the most ‘decline’) instead of this one
      NSIDC – zasi?g (extent) pokrywy lodowej Arktyki
      (NSIDC – range (extent) of the Arctic ice cap)
      http://meteomodel.pl/klimat/arcticice_nsidc.png

      **that one = Cryosphere Today – powierzchnia (area) pokrywy lodowej Arktyki
      (Cryosphere Today – area (area) of the Arctic ice cap)
      (And yes the language is Polish)

  10. markstoval says:

    “Earlier today, sea ice extent was at a 10 year high. But experts say it all melted during one hour at -1C this afternoon.”

    What I want to know is why should anyone care about the ice? It is all floating and so can’t raise sea level any. Why should we care if it melts in the summer? What difference would it really make?

    If all the ice at the north pole melted, then the alarmists would see that it is no big deal. (well maybe not the religious alarmists)

    I understand that the north pole has been ice free in the past and life on the planet survived that situation just fine. Why not now? Are we that much more fragile than life forms of the past?

    • cfgjd says:

      Ice disappearing during summer would be a huge environmental change. Of course this is expected to happen sooner or later on a warming planet.

      • markstoval says:

        A “huge environmental change”?? How so? And even if it were a “huge environmental change”, that does not make if bad. Warm is good, and cold is bad. Give me a lot more warming anytime.

        We were promised warmer nights and warm near the poles if there really was any “global warming”. What is bad about that?

        • cfgjd says:

          If ice-cover the size of the US disappears in just a few decades does it not fit the category of “huge environmental change”? I think any reasonable person would agree it does.

          The loss of sea ice will of course change large-scale weather patterns, which has already started.

        • gator69 says:

          If ice sheets covering much of the US disappeared, does that not fit the category of “huge environmental change”? I think any reasonable person would agree it did.

          The loss continental glaciers changed large-scale weather patterns, which has already happened.

          It’s called “nature”, and it isn’t static.

        • rachase says:

          The Arctic at some distant past was warm enough to support the organic material that was eventually transformed into oil and gas.

      • gator69 says:

        Naturally!

    • Gail Combs says:

      The Arctic has been ice free in the recent past. Life isn’t static and the earth certainly isn’t. We are just lucky enough to be in an essentially unchanging climate during a not very erratic interglacial. Actually the Holocene has been a remarkably stable interglacial. The last four before the Holocene were hotter spike and then back to the icebox.

      http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/400000yearslarge.gif

      It also shows CO2 climbing AFTER the temperature no doubt because the warming oceans released CO2.

      Here are your peer-reviewed papers.
      Ice free Arctic Ocean, an Early Holocene analogue

      Abstract
      Extensive systems of wave generated beach ridges along the North Greenland coasts show that these areas once saw seasonally open water. In addition to beach ridges, large amounts of striated boulders in and on the marine sediments from the same period also indicate that the ocean was open enough for ice bergs to drift along the shore and drop their loads. Presently the North Greenland coastline is permanently beleaguered by pack ice, and ice bergs are very rare and locked up in the sea ice. Predictions of the rapidly decreasing sea ice in the Arctic Ocean generally point to this area as the last to become ice free in summer. We therefore suggest that the occurrence of wave generated shores and abundant ice berg dropped boulders indicate that the Arctic Ocean was nearly free of sea ice in the summer at the time when they were formed. The beach ridges occur as isostatically raised “staircases”, and C14-dated curves for relative sea level change show that they were formed in the Early Holocene. A large set of samples of molluscs from beach ridges and marine sediments were collected in the summer of 2007, and are presently being dated to give a precise dating of the ice free interval. Preliminary results indicate that it fell within the interval from c. 8.5 to c. 6 ka – being progressively shorter from south to north. We therefore conclude that for a period in the Early Holocene, probably for a millenium or more, the Arctic Ocean was free of sea ice at least for shorter periods in the summer….

      Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

      …. Solar energy reached a summer maximum (9% higher than at present) ~11 ka ago and has been decreasing since then, primarily in response to the precession of the equinoxes. The extra energy elevated early Holocene summer temperatures throughout the Arctic 1-3°C above 20th century averages, enough to completely melt many small glaciers throughout the Arctic, although the Greenland Ice Sheet was only slightly smaller than at present. Early Holocene summer sea ice limits were substantially smaller than their 20th century average, and the flow of Atlantic water into the Arctic Ocean was substantially greater. As summer solar energy decreased in the second half of the Holocene, glaciers re-established or advanced, sea ice expanded

      And in Norway new research shows the glaciers had all melted away and have only reformed 600 years ago.

      A new approach for reconstructing glacier variability based on lake sediments recording input from more than one glacier January 2012

      …. A multi-proxy numerical analysis demonstrates that it is possible to distinguish a glacier component in the ~ 8000-yr-long record, based on distinct changes in grain size, geochemistry, and magnetic composition…. This signal is …independently tested through a mineral magnetic provenance analysis of catchment samples. Minimum glacier input is indicated between 6700–5700 cal yr BP, probably reflecting a situation when most glaciers in the catchment had melted away, whereas the highest glacier activity [growth] is observed around 600 and 200 cal yr BP. During the local Neoglacial interval (~ 4200 cal yr BP until present), five individual periods of significantly reduced glacier extent are identified at ~ 3400, 3000–2700, 2100–2000, 1700–1500, and ~ 900 cal yr BP….
      (wwwDOT)sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033589411001256

      • Gail Combs says:

        I occurs to me that the Elite who own the media, the world economy and our governments are using FEAR to manipulate the Alarmist followers. Unfortunately they FEAR the wrong thing.

        As the 1974 CIA report noted it is COOLING that is the real fear not to mention the totalitarians who want to ‘Fundamentally Transform Civilization’ to better fit THEIR needs and not ours. The fact they are letting us know this is a real concern BTW.

        The 1974 CIA Report
        “A Study of Climatological Research as it Pertains to Intelligence Problems”
        http://www.climatemonitor.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1974.pdf

        Pg 7
        In 1972 the Intelligence Community was faced with two issues concerning climatology:

        * No methodologies available to alert policymakers of adverse climatic change

        * No tools to assess the economic and political impact of such a change.

        “… Since 1972 the grain crisis has intensified…. Since 1969 the storage of grain has decreased from 600 million metric tons to less than 100 million metric tons – a 30 day supply… many governments have gone to great lengths to hide their agricultural predicaments from other countries as well as from their own people…

        pg 9
        The archaeologists and climatotologists document a rather grim history… There is considerable evidence that these empires may not have been undone by barbarian invaders but by climatic change…. has tied several of these declines to specific global cool periods, major and minor, that affected global atmospheric circulation and brought wave upon wave of drought to formerly rich agricultural lands.

        Refugees from these collapsing civilizations were often able to migrate to better lands… This would be of little comfort however,… The world is too densely populated and politically divided to accommodate mass migration.

        Page 18 talks of coming glaciation.
        Scientists are confident that unless man is able to effectively modify the climate, the northern regions… will again be covered with 100 to 200 feet of ice and snow. That this will occur within the nexy 2,500 years they are quite positive; that it may occur sooner is open to speculation.

        page 22 states:
        The climate of the 1800s was far less favorable for agriculture in most areas of the world. In the United States during that century, the midwest grain-producing areas were cooler and wetter and snow lines of the Russian steppes lasted for longer periods of time. More extended periods of drought were noted in the areas of the Soviet Union now known as the new lands. More extensive monsoon failures were common around the world, affecting in particular China, the Philippines and the Indian Subcontinent.

        The Wisconsin analysis questions whether a return to these climate conditions could support a population that has grown from 1.1 billion in 1850 to 3.75 billion in 1970. The Wisconsin group predicted that the climate could not support the world’s population since technology offers no immediate solution. Further world grain reserves currently amount to less than one month; thus any delay in supplies implies mass starvation. They also contended that new crop strains could not be developed over night… Moreover they observed that agriculture would become even more energy dependent in a world of declining resources.

        • Dmh says:

          As usual, Gail, I 100% agree with you.
          We really don’t know when exactly the next glacial inception will happen, but it’s obviously “knocking at the door” already.
          I’m firmly convinced that people will stop talking about AGW until the end of this decade.
          The present ENSO could bring another step-change in world’s climate.

        • Gail Combs says:

          Dmh,
          It doesn’t even have to be glacial inception. Whether the Holocene will end at half precession or follow a similar pattern as MIS11 is hotly debated although the recent evidence is leaning toward glacial inception.

          What does matter is the earth will in either case be near glacial inception and the earth will see the roller coaster climate that was seen between the two MIS11 peaks. The ‘Climatic Madhouse’

          That is why the Alarmists would be falling down laughing funny if it weren’t for the fact they are succeeding in changing our economic model.

  11. cfgjd says:

    Gator what is your criteria for deciding whether something fits inside “natural variability” or not?

    • gator69 says:

      4,500,000,000 years of set precedences. The set precedences you deny.

      Paper please!

      • cfgjd says:

        Why so many years? Sounds frankly idiotic, and a way to deny even the possibility of detecting any man-made change. Come up with something defensible please.

        ps. if the thousands of climate skeptics produce on average one poster total per year, how many years does it take to publish all natural cycles? Or are natural cycles like gods that can be used ad hoc to explain any possible event?

      • gator69 says:

        Yes, I know, to you science and logic are idiotic.

        Paper please!

      • Gail Combs says:

        NEVER ask a geologist what is a precedence if you are expecting something less than say a few decades. Unfortunately cfgjd, there are a lot of geologists or those with geology minors on this blog. We tend to think of climate in terms of millennia or more.

        http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/lappi/Five_Myr_Climate_Change_Rev.jpg

        • gator69 says:

          I had been a geology student for about 7 years when I took my first climatology class, and was immediately struck by the “Young Earth” attitude of my climatology professsor. As a geology student I was taught that the Earth is a dynamic and ever changing venue, whereas my climatolgy professor seemed to think that the Earth should be static. Weird.

        • Gail Combs says:

          “…the Earth should be static. Weird.”

          Yes very weird. I have no where near your extensive background but only a fool or an insulated city type would not have an understanding that the earth is a dynamic system and a heck of a lot tougher and stronger than we puny humans are.

          This is a really interesting illustration that you probably already know about.

          The Ghost Forest
          Amagnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked the Washington coast off Grays Harbor, causing the land to instantly drop in elevation by up to 6 feet around the region.

          Cascadia Earthquake of 1700

          On the evening of January 26, 1700 at around 9 PM, an unexpected event shook the natives and their Gods along the Pacific Northwest. This recorded 9.0 magnitude earthquake caused repercussions felt as far as Japan with huge tsunamis thrashing the coastline. This is one of the biggest earthquakes to ever be conceived to have happened based off of geological and folklore evidence.
          The Cascadia earthquake occurred at the convergent plate boundary of the Juan de Fuca plate and the North American plate,….

          There is also evidence with the areas along the coast with the help of the trees that died in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. Earthquakes are known to cause subsidence, a down drop of land to a lower level, and the Cascadia earthquake did just that, (Figure 4). The subsidence from the earthquake caused the land level to go below sea level and thus killing the trees located in the area of subsidence. Salt water filled up the land and the trees could no longer survive. This area is often referred to as the ghost forest,

          Any bets on which will happen first?
          1. Another big earthquake and California follows the Ghost forest into the ocean
          2.The N.Korans or Iran lob a nuke into Yellowstone and set off a mega-volcano?

          https://media2.stickersmalin.com/produit/100/stickers-devil-smile-R1-143760-2.png

  12. cfgjd says:

    “If ice sheets covering much of the US disappeared, does that not fit the category of “huge environmental change”? I think any reasonable person would agree it did.”

    Of course. That took many thousands of years, naturally.

    • gator69 says:

      And we should be thankful that the Earth warmed, naturally.

      Paper please!

      • cfgjd says:

        How come the skeptic community produced one measly poster for AGU? Are you guys like creationists, not producing any science but still thinking you are terribly scientific in your opposition of science? LULZ

        • gator69 says:

          Paper please!

        • David A says:

          How come alarmist are ignorant of hundreds of papers supported by literally thousands of experiments and real world observations that make any rational person skeptical of CAGW?

          Even when repeatedly shown links to peer reviewed research, they go on blindly aserting it’s non-existence.

        • Dmh says:

          Do you read the posts of, for example, Gail Combs in this blog?
          Do you think you can understand her posts?

        • AndyG55 says:

          And you have produce no science, EVER…….NOTHING, NADA… ZIP. !

          Is it ineptitude, or base-level ignorance on your behalf.. or both.

      • Gail Combs says:

        Because the AGU is now infested with Alarmists to the point they are deleting non-alarmist papers from their website.

        If you want the skeptic papers then you go HERE.

        When a group of people are vilified and ostracized they will form a new group and start ignoring the corrupt groups. That is what I see happening today. Even Nobel SCIENCE prize winers are walking away from the corrupted organizations.

    • Dave G says:

      If Climate Change always takes thousands of years…. (it doesn’t, that’s a myth) why are there flash frozen wooly mammoths in the fossil record?

      • Jason Calley says:

        Hey Dave! That whole “flash frozen wooly mammoths” things is one of the most wonderful puzzles. Personally, I am leaning more and more to the catastrophic, comet-strike-to-the-Arctic-Ice-Cap theory. Certainly, whatever the cause of the flash freezing was, it is difficult to ascribe it to any common occurrence.

        • Dmh says:

          I sometimes consider the possibility of a long lasting Polar Vortex.
          If it lasts for, say, “months” instead of “few days” as it usually does, it could easily cause the “flash frozen wooly mammoths” type of phenomena and probably also glacial inception.
          I don’t know if it’s possible, though.

      • AndyG55 says:

        And why are there tree stumps under retreating glaciers. 🙂

      • Gail Combs says:

        And why did Dr Alley say he saw evidence in the Greenland Ice core that the climate switched from the Wisconsin Ice Age to the Holocene IN ONE YEAR!!!

        John D. Cox,— Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What it Means for our Future (John Henry Press, an imprint of the National Academies Press, ISBN: 0-309-54565-X, 224 pages, 2005)

        …”The ice that had formed from falling snow during the transition from the last of the cold, dry, windy ice ages to the first of the warm, wet calms of the modern 10,000-year-long Holocene climate is 1,678 meters, just over a mile, down the GISP2 core. Rendered in ice, what exactly would it look like, this boundary of epochs? The young American scientists had read the literature from Chet Langway, Willi Dansgaard, Hans Oeschger, Wally Broecker, and others, and they had heard from the Europeans, who were about a year ahead of them in drilling at Summit. Yet still they were not entirely prepared for what they saw that day in the ice, for the suddenness of it.”

        “‘You did not need to be a trained ice core observer to see this,’ recalled Alley. ‘Ken Taylor is sitting there with the ECM and he’s running along and his green line is going wee, wee, wee, wee – Boing! Weep! Woop! And then it stays down.’ Dust in the windy ice age atmosphere lowered the acidity of the core to a completely new state….

        …”In the GISP2 science trench, the tray holding the section of core rolled down the assembly line and then it was Alley’s turn at the ice. “It slides across in front of me and I’m trying to identify years: ‘That’s a year, that’s a year and that’s a year, and – woops, that one’s only half as thick.’ And it’s sitting there just looking at you. And there’s a huge change in the appearance of the ice, it goes from being clear to being not clear, having a lot of dust.”….

        Notice the description of the Dust in the windy ice age atmosphere… a completely new state

    • Robertv says:

      Summer , Winter.

    • DD More says:

      CF – Of course. That took many thousands of years, naturally.

      http://ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_chapter_07.pdf

      Page 224. N. Hemisphere snow extent was still going up through 1978 -. Fig 7.19: Was that before you were born, because I was not 1,000’s of years old upon graduation from high school.

      1973 & 1974 Arctic Ice extent was 700,000 km^2 below the 1998 Average.

      Sea Ice – 1973-1990 https://stevengoddard.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/screenshot-2015-12-29-at-11-10-12-pm.png

      Changes and fluctuations in Arctic sea ice extent have been analysed by Mysak and Manak (1989); they find no long term trends in sea-ice extent between 1953 and 1984 in a number of Arctic ocean regions but substantial decadal time scale variability was evident in the Atlantic sector. These variations were found to be consistent with the development, movement and decay of the “Great Salinity Anomaly” noted in Section 7.7.
      Sea-ice conditions are now reported regularly in marine synoptic observations, as well as by special reconnaissance flights, and coastal radar. Especially importantly, satellite observations have been used to map sea-ice extent routinely since the early 1970s. The American Navy Joint Ice Center has produced weekly charts which have been digitised by NOAA. These data are summarized in Figure 7.20 which is based on analyses carried out on a 1° latitude x 2.5° longitude grid. Sea-ice is defined to be present when its concentration exceeds 10% (Ropelewski, 1983). Since about 1976 the areal extent of sea-ice in the Northern Hemisphere has varied about a constant climatological level but in 1972-1975 sea-ice extent was significantly less.

      About where we are now.

      http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.arctic.png

      IPCC so you know it is true and peer reviewed. For your viewing pleasure.

  13. cfgjd says:

    Gator is trying to use the “if you do not know everything you cannot know anything”-fallacy. I guess that helps you with dealing with the real issues. A fragile soul perhaps.

  14. cfgjd says:

    “How come alarmist are ignorant of hundreds of papers supported by literally thousands of experiments and real world observations that make any rational person skeptical of CAGW?”

    Sounds like that’s about 1% of all relevant papers and experiments, if even true.

    • David A says:

      Really? Logic does elude you, but you can still type. Most CAGW papers have 0 to do with atmospheric physics. Intead a circle jerk of Grant grubbing enviromentsl study yahoos study the harm caused by a drought here, or a flood there and then, based on falsified climat models, that project more heat cold etc, in the future, they publish a ragabout frogs getting bigger, or smaller, or polar bears drowning, or bees dying etc, etc. This is not hyperbole, but thousands of such nonsense papers are published with billions of dollars of agenda driven anti-science.

      In addition truth is not established, except in an idiots mind, by the number of papers published. Truth is established by real world observations, and cause papers based on those observations, not atribution papers based on failed climate models.

      • cfgjd says:

        It’s too bad none of the Earth Science communities hasn’t been convinced by the very scarce skeptic papers that AGW does not exist.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_science#Partial_list_of_the_major_earth_science_topics

        Most be a major conspiracy then. Way bigger than the Moon Landing Hoax, wow.

        • gator69 says:

          It’s too bad none of science journals have published any papers proving that NV does not drive all climate changes.

          https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&ei=P1KFVvyqIM-OjwO8zpjABw&q=null+hypothesis&oq=null+hypothesis&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3..0i131j0l4.121.5122.0.5854.15.13.0.5.5.0.1315.7046.4-1j1j2j4.8.0….0…1c.1.64.mobile-gws-hp..9.6.1467.n3MjrIlOJl8

          Most be a major conspiracy then. Way bigger than the Moon Landing Hoax, wow.

        • Gail Combs says:

          Actually that is another falsehood. Here is your original 97% ‘survey’

          https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/98_percent_climate_scientists_graph.png

          Did you get that???
          SENT: 10,257
          REPLIED:3,146
          Didn’t get the right answer so choose subset
          CLIMATE SCIENTISTS: 77
          Answered YES: 75

          Here is that survey as it appeared in EOS:

          EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 90, NO. 3, PAGE 22, 2009 doi:10.1029/2009EO030002
          http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2009EO030002.shtml
          BRIEF REPORT

          Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

          Peter T. Doran, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago

          Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago

          Fifty-two percent of Americans think most climate scientists agree that the Earth has been warming in recent years, and 47% think climate scientists agree (i.e., that there is a scientific consensus) that human activities are a major cause of that warming, according to recent polling (see http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm). However, attempts to quantify the scientific consensus on anthropogenic warming have met with criticism. For instance, Oreskes [2004] reviewed 928 abstracts from peer-reviewed research papers and found that more than 75% either explicitly or implicitly accepted the consensus view that Earth’s climate is being affected by human activities. Yet Oreskes’s approach has been criticized for overstating the level of consensus acceptance within the examined abstracts [Peiser, 2005] and for not capturing the full diversity of scientific opinion [Pielke, 2005]. A review of previous attempts at quantifying the consensus and criticisms is provided by Kendall Zimmerman [2008]. The objective of our study presented here is to assess the scientific consensus on climate change through an unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists.

          AND they have the unmitigated gall to call those SEVENTY SEVEN cherry picked scientists “..an unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists.”

          And you wonder why we think ClimAstrologists are lying bags of porcine feces?

          Just maybe because they have PROVED that they will lie!

          That Scientific Global Warming Consensus…Not! – Forbes

        • Jason Calley says:

          Let’s do a survey of the world’s religious leaders to find out whether they approve of drug use. Of those who reply, we will then throw out all except the ones who are practicing Rastafarians…

        • DD More says:

          Gail, it should always be noted the type of ‘Earth Scientist’ it was sent to and what they were asked..
          Doran and Kendall Zimmerman, 2009 – http://tigger.uic.edu/~pdoran/012009_Doran_final.pdf
          An invitation to participate in the survey was sent to 10,257 Earth scientists. The database was built from Keane and Martinez [2007], which lists all geosciences faculty at reporting academic institutions, along with researchers at state geologic surveys associated with local Universities, and researchers at U.S. federal research facilities (e.g., U.S. Geological Survey, NASA, and NOAA (U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) facilities; U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories; (and so forth). [Note only government scientist, private sector need not apply]

          This brief report addresses the two primary questions of the survey

          1. When compared with pre-1800s levels, do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant?
          2. Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?

          With 3146 individuals completing.

          In our survey, the most specialized and knowledgeable respondents (with regard to climate change) are those who listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change (79 individuals in total). Of these specialists, 96.2% (76 of 79) answered “risen” to question 1 and 97.4% (75 of 77) answered yes to question 2.

        • David A says:

          CF, it is hard to convince someone who’s livelihood depends on not being convinced.

          I was at Scrpps Institute of Oceaography, thoroughly thrashing a PHD student in a debate about CAGW.

          Finally he liked at me and said, partly as a confession, partly in fear and anger mixed, ” my family depends on this”. I nodded and told him our debate was over. 2004

  15. RTodd says:

    What is the salinity of alarmist tears and at what temperature do they freeze?

  16. cfgjd says:

    Here’s a graph of historical Arctic sea ice extent:

    https://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/polyakfig2.jpg

    …modern extent s exceptionally low. Also, before the start of the graph we were recovering from the Little Ice Age…who believes Arctic sea ice was almost gone back then?

    • wizzum says:

      Interesting that Amundsen managed to sail his boat through the NW passage in 1906 with the ice extent so much higher than your graph shows for the more recent period when it was blocked.

      • cfgjd says:

        The graph contains ship data so his observations might be included in it. Of course error-bars are larger in the past but present-day low extents can be ruled out.

        • wizzum says:

          Also known as “my graph is useless as any sort of historical reference”.

          Your graph shows that he sailed his boat through the passage on a year that had as much ice as the “modern maximum” (1979).

          I’m calling bullshit.

        • R. Shearer says:

          What error bars?

    • gator69 says:

      There is currently more ice in the Arctic than the average of the past 9000 years. Why would you cherry pick the LIA, the coldest point of the interglacial? Desperate much? 😆

    • Where did the graph originate? How was it made?

  17. cfgjd says:

    “It’s too bad none of science journals have published any papers proving that NV does not drive all climate changes.”

    How would you prove that? Are models allowed? Where are the skeptic Earth System Models BTW? Can we expect a poster in AGU 2020 shedding some light on this? 😀

  18. cfgjd says:

    “Your graph shows that he sailed his boat through the passage on a year that had as much ice as the “modern maximum” (1979).

    I’m calling bullshit.”

    Check the history, it took Amundsen THREE YEARS to make the passage.

    • wizzum says:

      He only sailed through in 1905 as he was finished mapping and making scientific observations, it is recorded in his journal that he could have sailed through in 1904 but decided to wait until 1905 as he was not finished with his scientific observations.
      Sorry, I made a mistake saying 1906, it was 1905 that he sailed through.

      • cfgjd says:

        He could not have known that sailing through would have been possible in 1904 as the route can be blocked in so many places.

        • wizzum says:

          Beats me, I didn’t write his journal. Now you are calling one of the worlds foremost Arctic explorers a liar.

        • wizzum says:

          Sorry again, I should know better than to check Wikianydamnthing for dates, I was right the first time on 1906.

        • Latitude says:

          His wasn’t the only boat up there…..there were plenty of other people along the way to tell him if it was open or not

    • AndyG55 says:

      Yes, and in those 3 years, the NWP was open enough for his to get through in a small wooden boat..

      Most recent passages have required the assistance of nuclear powered ice-breakers.

    • Gail Combs says:

      Perhaps it is time to round up all the Alarmists, ESPECIALLY the academic and journalist Alarmists and ship them to Tasmania and forget about repairing BassLink. No exodus allowed and the only imports allowed are solar panels and wind turbines.

  19. Gail Combs says:

    I wanted to put thes together so I could look at them.
    AndyG’s Graph with temperature*** graph, inverted and with GISS/GHCN V3/Tom Wigley style “adjustments™” done on the “inconvenient peak™” [It would be good to remove at least part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with “why the blip”]

    https://i2.wp.com/s19.postimg.org/59jymx837/Iceland_adjusted.jpg

    cfgjd …. Tamino’s graph of Arctic sea ice extent
    https://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/polyakfig2.jpg

    *** GHCN v2 means for Akureyri, Grimsey, Hofn Island, Teigarhorn, Reykjavik, Keflavik and Stykkisholmur, doesn’t matter which is which. (the black line is the 5-year average) we see the standard pattern of the AMO with the superimposed climb out of the LIA.

    • AndyG55 says:

      Thanks Gail..

      Having three or four posts strung together with an explanation….

      This may be just enough to overcome his very short concentration span…

      Although its still probably waaaaay too much for his very limited comprehension skills.

    • AndyG55 says:

      And another

      http://met.no/Forskning/Publikasjoner/filestore/Ealat_Yamal_climaterep_dvs-1.pdf

      “All series show warm periods in the 1940s and 1990s, and a cold period in the 1960s. Salekard (the only station with observations at that time) was cold also around 1900.”

      Page 40 summary and conclusions:

      1. Increasing temperatures from 1900 to the mid-1940s (often referred to as the “early 20th century warming”).

      2. Decreasing temperatures from the mid-1940s until about the mid-1960s.

      3. A “recent warming” from the 1960s to 2003.

    • AndyG55 says:

      And Hubert Lamb’s ‘Climate History and the Modern World’ (originally published 1982 using material collated during the previous decade) notes ‘ (my capital letters) …from around the beginning of the century up to 1940 a substantial climate change was in progress, average temperatures were rising, MOST OF ALL IN THE ARCTIC WHERE THE SEA ICE WAS RECEDING…the almost four and a half decades of near immunity to very cold winters ended abruptly with Europe’s notably severe war winters in 1940, 41 and 42 and another in 1947.’

      Page 259 comments ‘…warming was rapid from about 1920 to 1940 …it was during the second and third decades of the (20th) century that the climatic warming became noticeable to everybody, places near the arctic fringe such as Iceland, Spitsbergen and even Toronto experienced warming that was from twice to five times as great… THE AVERAGE TOTAL AREAS OF THE ARCTIC SEA ICE SEEMS TO HAVE DECLINED BY ABOUT BETWEEN 10 AND 20% ….

      ———————————————–

      None of this shows up in the alarmista Arctic sea ice propaganda farce of a graph that cfool is citing.

  20. AndyG55 says:

    Oh and look. basically flat since about 2008… just as the AMO turns over the top.

    http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.arctic.png

    Over the next few years, it will be hilarious to watch the antics of the Arctic alarmista bletheren. 🙂

    Run and hide, little worms. 🙂

  21. David A says:

    These alarmists simply refuse to learn a thing. I guess that is what earns the title, “troll”.

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