Desperate to keep their fraudulently obtained funding coming in, climate experts continue to insist that the Arctic is hot and rapidly melting.
The exact opposite is occurring. Arctic sea ice is growing very fast, and is now higher than 2015 and 2016.
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The ice edge is close to the 1981-2010 mean.
nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_daily_extent.png
Greenland is blowing away all records for ice gain this winter, having gained nearly 450 billion tons of ice since September 1.
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI
Global warming is the biggest scam in science history.
I’m sorry, I just don’t trust any of this Arctic ice info…
…until Griff condemns it
:)
He is busy being clobbered at WUWT today.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/25/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-epa/#comment-2406742
He will be here soon as he has a hard on over the North Pole.
I’m concerned about a serious impact on our climate, yes…
you? what’s your excuse for excusing the scientific evidence?
Because we know you are all wet and about to freeze solid.
Gosh Griff, you mean this neat exchange which you quickly dropped out of:
“Griff
January 26, 2017 at 6:36 am
I’m trying to think of something which actually might get through to you lot…
catweazle666
January 26, 2017 at 6:47 pm
“I’m trying to think of something which actually might get through to you lot…”
With your history of mendacity and slandering the likes of Willie Soon, Susan Cockcroft and Patrick Moore – to name but three of the individuals you have attempted to discredit professionally with your lies, plus your continuous lying about aspects of climate science, of which you are entirely ignorant, you’ve got no chance whatsoever.
So you can tell your paymasters you’ve been blown, you pathetic little troll.
Tough.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/25/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-epa/#comment-2408176
Then later in the thread,Griff replied ME with his idiotic claim,ignoring the point that he never acknowledges:
” Sunsettommy
January 25, 2017 at 7:58 am
Griff, it is clear you didn’t notice that Jay didn’t advocate a return back to 1960’s level of protection,in fact he touted the existence of the EPA in the early years:
“A Promising Beginning
In the late 1960s, the United States faced real problems regarding the quality of its air and water, waste disposal, and contamination from mining and agriculture. Pollution crossed borders – the borders between private property as well as between cities, states, and nations – and traditional remedies based on private property rights didn’t seem to be working. The public was overly complacent about the possible threat to their safety.
Many scientists, myself included, lobbied the federal government to form a cabinet-level agency to address these problems. [1] In 1971, EPA was born. During the agency’s first 10 years, Congress passed seven legislative acts to protect the environment, including the Water Pollution Control Act (later renamed the Clean Water Act), Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Clean Air Act.
At first, these laws worked well, protecting the environment and the health of our citizens. Problems were identified, measured, exposed, and major investments were made to reduce dangerous emissions and protect the public from exposure to them. EPA and other government agencies regularly report the subsequent dramatic reduction in all the pollutants we originally targeted. By the 1980s, nothing more needed to be done beyond monitoring our continuing success in cleaning up the environment. It was time to declare victory and go home.”
Many laws and acts were passed to remove most of the problems that were of real concern,that by the 1980’s were of great success. But after that it becomes a diminishing returns, to keep squeezing the last bit of toothpaste from the container.
Drop your off note concern for the “children”,since that is a leftist propaganda tactic to promote more regulations that have little reason to exist. The laws of the 1970’s had already addressed the concern for children when lead was taken out of gasoline and paint among other things. That the air and water became much cleaner.
There will be no drive to repeal the original Air, Water and drinking water acts of the 1970’s as they did what was needed,now enforcement is what should be maintained, That is being proposed,for the 50 states to maintain.
Stop trying to support an obviously corrupt,politically motivated institution!”
Griff
January 26, 2017 at 6:38 am
Tommy -and I’m saying that when you relax the regs and hamstring the EPA, you start the drift – sprint? – back to the good ole days.
who wins here? Corporation owners cutting their costs and increasing their dividends.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/25/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-epa/#comment-2406949
The very next comment:
“DonM
January 26, 2017 at 4:32 pm
Griff?
What do you mean by “Corporation owners”? The stockholders?
Corporations are not evil … intentional ignorance is evil. The City that you live in is a corporation. The entity that supplies you with with electricity is a corporation. Planned Parenthood is a corporation. Uber is a corporation. You are an idiot.”
You are exposed as being a world class galoot!
Bin-busting crop yields?
your wish…
The extent is still at a record low for this time of year.
which means it is the lowest it has been at this point in the arctic winter in human history.
There has been a slight uptick in extent due to another tremendous storm pushing the (thin) ice about. It will be declining again shortly and is pretty near its winter peak – exceptionally early.
If the red line is at the bottom of the chart, how is it recovering or the highest for 3 years?
Wow! So you are aware of the extent of Greenland ice mass in arctic winter since the dawn of human history?! I had no idea.
Funny, 800,000 years of ice cores don’t seem to dent your confidence (ice cores of this length have been sampled by the Russians showing several periods hotter than now – those ancient alien SUV’s must have been something!).
What a load of crap. The “in human history” part is hilarious. C’mon Griff, drink a cup of coffee and get both neurons firing before posting.
“which means it is the lowest it has been at this point in the arctic winter in human history.”
Seems Griffy forgot that the Vikings HAD a written history.
A sensational find at the bottom of an ancient rubbish heap in Greenland suggests that Vikings grew barley on the island 1,000 years ago
Sep 7th 2006 (When NC was experiencing hot 100F weather unlike now.) Bringing back the barley
Of course that article is a bit misleading given new cold tolerant cultivars.
Recently, even more frost tolerant mutant has been identified….. The mutant variety Taran has higher cold tolerance than initial and check varieties (table 2).
From Russia of course (and reported by the USDA)
Mutations and Barley Breeding for Thermo-period Reaction and Cold Tolerance
V. M. Shevtsov, N. V. Serkin, D. Chanda, and V.M. Chumak
Krasnodar Lukyanenko Research Institute of Agriculture
Griff is correct. The chart above shows that while it is growing, as Goddard correctly states, it was this month the lowest in modern record keeping.
You conveniently seem to be ignoring anything before 1979.
Otheus,
The red dot (2017) on the Arctic extent graph is greater than the same time period in 2016, tied with or greater than 2015 (2017, 2016, 2015, three years), and insignificantly (margin of error?) less than 2014 and 2013. What other part of this Griff post is, uh, “correct”?
Notice the twist on words…
“Griff is correct. …. the lowest in modern record keeping.”
WRONG!!!
The EXACT wording by Griff was
“…The extent is still at a record low for this time of year.
which means it is the lowest it has been at this point in the arctic winter in human history….”
and as I showed that is incorrect.
I was even nice about it and gave him WRITTEN history.
…..
Actually, since Homo Sapien has been around for the entire Holocene Griff is doubly wrong.
THE CLIMATE has cooled overall despite the fluctuations in WEATHER which Griff and the ClimAstrologists stay focused on.
Abstract
Holocene fluctuations in Arctic sea-ice cover: dinocyst-based reconstructions for the eastern Chukchi Sea
Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic
And more recently…
The Arctic was wide open in 1951 according to the old Australian newspaper records on Dr Hans Ahlmann of the Swedish Geographic Institute
” In 1910 most of the (Russian Arctic) sea lanes were open for only three months. Now they are open eight months each year.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/71392865
“The extent is still at a record low for this time of year.”
Total BULLSHIT!!
Even NSIDC has 2017, day 25 above at least 3 other years.
Wanh wanh! I wonder… when we get past this crisis… that is, the crisis where powerful political entities have interceded to destroy the remotest credibility of science itself by fabricating another crisis – AGW – will there be trials? Expulsions from scientific societies? Public mockings? Pillories? I sure hope so!
Griff,
You sure have visual problems, since the chart shows a sharp uptick recently, to where it is at or slightly higher than 2015-2016 levels.
Wait a few more days, it will become very obvious as the recent upsurge continues.
Global warming is the biggest scam in all of history. It encompasses every country on Earth, it is being pushed by virtually every entity on Earth, and it has the capacity to enslave everyone who is not a rulemaker. Even if you consider religion to be a scam, not one of the great religions comes even close to the size and scope of the great global warming swindle.
They have some superstars on the team.
Yes, the party of womens’ rights has the greatest leaders of all time. I’m guessing Bill was breaking in a new intern, and Weiner was busy taking midsection selfies to update his MySpace account.
Heavy snowfall in Oregon, Idaho, Alaska is causing buildings to collapse
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/heavy-snowfall-in-oregon-idaho-alaska-is-causing-buildings-to-collapse/
I’m in southern Idaho and we have broken snowfall records and temperatures have been 9 degrees below average for over 6 weeks, and currently 15-20 degrees below average for at least another week. This winter is beyond anything I’ve ever witnessed here in 50 years.
I live in Bend, Oregon. We’ve had snow on the ground for going on eight weeks now.
December’s average temperatures were 7.65F below normal, and it looks as though this month’s will be similar.
You missed the area near Lake Tahoe.
Can it collapse on that Bimbo’s head, the one who wants to head the DNC ! If it doesn’t, I sure hope she wins.
OK Goddard, so the ’30s were hotter, No one including Exxon had a correct forcast, climatologists haven’t gotten temperature or precipitation exactly right, and sea ice is up.
But what about sea level? What about that? Do a news search on sea level and it’s bad bad bad news, Miami, New York and San Francisco to name a few are going to be under water in just a few decades. We need a global carbon tax and a “Leave it in the ground.” policy now!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
My screen shows a blank space between:
now!
&
Ha ha
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Is that where the ‘sarc’ tag is supposed to be?
What does “a few decades” mean?
More than 2 but less than 4? More than 4 but fewer than 7? Or, maybe, 8 to 18?
Regarding Miami: If you build at and below sea level, flooding will happen.
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen, at:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/07/miamis-vice/
NY & SF – – – no problems in the foreseeable future, or in a few decades either.
I must be missing something — the big white space in your comment?
No, you aren’t missing anything, I didn’t think tags were necessary (-:
However, I do think that of all the Climate Change scares that emanate from our good friends on the left, Sea Level is the one that resonates most with those gullible enough to allow themselves to get all worked up over the issue.
And in my humble opinion, debunking the usual claims of a meter of rise by 2100 doesn’t get nearly the attention from the more rational side of the argument that it deserves.
Minamidaitōjima is located approximately 360 kilometres east of Okinawa Island. Minamidaitō covers 30.7 square kilometres. This tiny island includes a lakes area and is clearly not a steep projection like many of the Hawaiian islands. They and the folks in coastal Netherlands might notice waking up underwater.
The highest point is 74 metres (243 ft) above sea level.
If I were King there, I’d claim that spot.
Still, this has nothing to do with CO₂.
Whew…. that hysterical laughter at the end was quite a relief !
Tony, a big shoutout to you for this information. Interestingly I submitted a comment yesterday on the Yale Environment article that you referenced today showing the accelerated Arctic sea ice growth, which I found in the NSIDC January 5, 2017 summary showing a 40% above long term average ice growth for December 2016. It’s unsurprising my comment was not accepted on their website as it was awaiting approval-another indication how biased our scientific community has become.
Keep up the great work!
Oops, the Yale article doesn’t show Arctic sea ice growth, didn’t write it very well, sorry for the confusion.
Even in the NSIDC data here…
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/
2017 extent has been above 2006 for the last 4 days. (days 21-24)
Can anyone give Griff some job leads …. I guess he is looking for work now ;-)
I’m gainfully employed… which is more than you can say for most posters on the net.
Really, extent is scraping along the bottom/lowest ever… (do check on how NSIDC calculates by the way.
I found a map of August 1952 ice which actually has more ice than today…
SOOooo?
We are talking CLIMATE here, not minor blips in the weather.
December 2016, Scientists Find Greenland Is Now Much Colder With More Advanced Ice Sheet Margins Than 90% Of The Last 7,500 Years
Griff, it’s good you work for a living but unless you are here because you run errands for The Company you don’t understand the game.
“Really, extent is scraping along the bottom/lowest ever…”
EVER?
omg, you truly are the most stupid of the brain-washed AGW cretins. !!
Totally ignorant of anything outside your 15 years of meaningless existence.
Read up on Arctic sea extent for most of the first 3/4 of the Holocene, and stop being a moronic idiot !!
AndyG55,
I have shoved those peer reviewed papers on the Arctic at Griffy several times but I guess he can’t read at the level.
So what and why did you pick 2006?
Andy
Oh dear.. I didn’t “pick” 2006, the data did
You really are an ignorant little putz, aren’t you !!
in NSIDC, 2017 day 25 is now above that of 2006, 2011 and 2016
Remember AndyG55 the average IQ is 100. That means 50% of the population has an IQ BELOW 100.
“moron” (IQ of 51–70).
IQ between 0 and 25 are idiots; IQs between 26 and 50 are considered imbeciles. So Tony is being nice when he uses the term “moron”
Those few missing ice cubes from the 1981-2010 mean are a far greater threat to humanity than all of the nuclear bombs and all of the terrorist organizations on earth.
I am obviously being sarcastic, but for people like Al Gore, John Kerry, Bernie Sanders and all other members of their doomsday cult, that kind of nonsense is dead serious rhetoric.
As great a threat in years to come, yes.
Griffy,
PAY ATTENTION!
Glaciation is the real threat. Global warming at this stage of the Milancovitch cycle is impossible. All CO2 could possibly do is keep the earth from becoming an ICE BOX.
I already gave you papers from Quaternary Scientists saying we are staring at Glaciation or the Climatic Madhouse as the chaotic climate system whips between the two stable states.
Here is more from a differnt point of view. As the planet has cooled down and the oceans have become so incredibly cold (average temperature 3.9°C), despite being sandwiched between a 14°C atmosphere and a crust that radiates heat, the obliquity cycle is no longer capable of glacial termination as it did before mid-Pleistocene transition. Luckily every 2-3 obliquity cycles (100k average) the planet gets cold enough that the sea level gets low enough as to provide a strong positive feedback that pushes the planet briefly out of glacial conditions in the next obliquity cycle.
The role of obliquity in glacial pacing has been modelled and studied quite convincingly by Peter Huybers. See for example:
Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations. Nature 434 491-494.
The authors are Peter Huybers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Carl Wunsch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
From the paper:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7032/images/nature03401-f2.2.jpg
The Earth is COOLING, with periodic jumps out of the ice box. Please pay attention to the long view. Run away Global warming is just not possible.
An alternative interpretation, also from DMI.
Arctic sea ice volume is the lowest for the time of year in their records:
Gosh Jim, the lowest in 13 whole years! That’s reason enough to starve seven million innocent humans again this year. Nice job killer!
It’s still a length of time 3x more than Tony picked for this thread on his blog. You seem to have forgotten that though.
Poor job killer … perhaps you need to down grade to being called Gecko ?
:p
Andy
Please, change your name to something other than Andy..
you are an embarrassment !!
Andy is fine with genocide, good to know.
Insults from scumbags are one of my favorite things, thanks Andy!
There’s Jimbo the clown again
They released you from re-hab for a few days, hey. !
Sea ice is still MASSIVELY above the extent for most of the first 3/4 of the Holocene.
Not that much below the HUGE EXTREMES of the LIA.
But you KNOW that, don’t you Jimbo, you lying piece of s**t
It’s not just Jimbo the serial killing clown acting stupidly alone, now he has a sick sidekick who also feels that sacrificing 21,000 innocent humans daily is just awesome. And if that wasn’t just incredibly stupendous enough, Andy feels so very superior about himself, that he insults those who don’t wish to condemn innocent humans to a needless and very painful death to the tune of seven million per year.
The douchebag duo on ice!
No Andy(G),
I figured Tony would be spinning the current thin ice in Bering and Okhotsk, so I popped in here to take a look.
I wasn’t disappointed!
I wasn’t disappointed!
How about the alarmist body count for last year Jimbo? Did you make your eight million goal? Or were you disappointed?
This is where I object to short term gains or not in watching sea ice. If we roll back the clock a short period no doubt some people would be saying the Arctic ice extent was “flat lining” if you wanted to make a point. Now it swings upwards as extra ice in the Pacific side is being put on. Such short term flat or steep swings need to be ignored.
If you look at Jaxa
http://www.zen141854.zen.co.uk/ice26012017.jpg
It’s higher than 2016 but lower than 2015, but it is so close it does not actually mean anything. Compare instead against 2000 to 2017 and also the 1980’s and 1990’s average.
We had this same argument at the end of the summer minima where a large increase or bounce happened. Then another flat line period. I said wait till the New Year, it will be about average.
More interesting things are happening in the Antarctic at the moment I think. Still waiting to see how that plays out.
Andy
“Compare instead against 2000 to 2017 and also the 1980’s and 1990’s average. ”
Compare against the first 3/4 of the Holocene..
Why is it you are TOTALLY INCAPABLE of reading and actually learning even the simplest thing !!!
Did you get one of those climate CD’s from Gore or Cook , and just keep regurgitating the total ignorance they are filled with.
They yammer about CLIMATE but only talk about WEATHER…
The weather shows a MINOR hot blip while the CLIMATE shows overall COOLING…
Tony is the one “yammering about weather” Gail!
How thick is the sea ice in “central Greenland”?
Yawn.. you have become even more pathetic since they let you out of re-hab.
Yawn….
How thick is the sea ice in “central Greenland” Andy?
And Arctic sea ice extent ISN’T currently the “Highest In The Past Three Years”, if JAXA is to be believed.
They yammer on and on about tenths and hundreths of a degree (NOISE) and ignore the perfectly natural changes of 5-10 °C with a max changes of ~20 °C often within decades called Dansgaard-Oeschger events .
Rapid changes of glacial climate simulated in a coupled climate model
I’ll translate for The Lazy.
That says that the glacial frozen state is the only stable one. BUT, sometimes, you can get a bit of a kick into a warmer state (like we are having now). The warmth just is not very stable, and the “tipping point” is back to cold.
The orbital mechanics that make it possible to have an interglacial are rare, only happening about once every 100,000 years or once every couple obliquity cycles as I pointed out above. We are now exiting that BRIEF regime and the present W/m^2 above 65 N is within the range of glacial inception. The current value = 479W m−2 while glacial inception range is 500 W m−2, and below. SEE Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?
Two main types of abrupt climate changes have punctuated the last glacial period: Dansgaard-Oeschger (D/O) events and Heinrich events. D/O events typically start with an abrupt warming of Greenland by 5-10 °C over a few decades or less, followed by gradual cooling over several hundred or several thousand years. This cooling phase often ends with an abrupt final reduction of temperature back to cold (`stadial’) conditions.
The basic driver for the D.O. warming events still exists and can be seen as the ‘bond events’ including the Minoan, Roman, Medieval and Modern Warm Periods, during the Holocene.
So where we are at is that the orbital mechanics have already left the very brief warm state that can cause an ‘inter-glacial’ excursion. We are now ‘on the cusp’ of a return of the glacial conditions. There is a single highly stable state, and that is glacial / frozen. There is no “tipping point” to the upside from this brief warm period called the Holocene.
So, where are we? The “hot spot” remains missing, so the basic theory of the alarmists has no validity. (If that’s not right, or not what an attending NECESSARY condition means, please enlighten me.)
Then there is the MWP. The alarmists still insist that it (1) ain’t global, and (2) not nearly as warm as today. But, what about the 6,000+ boreholes (Joanne Nova site) which show a global trend, and are not restricted to just ice core locals? Then there is Mendenhall glacier which recently exposed a 1,000 year old forest, and a similar situation in the Alps, but that forest is 4,000 years old. Trees haven’t grown at this latitude anywhere near those two sites. Then there’s gisp2 (Greenland) study, which is also not close to Europe, and shows the real MWP temperature trend (much higher) compared to our current temperatures. Then there are the hundreds of numerous peer-reviewed MWP studies. co2science.org provides links to all those studies and provides a convenient sort by region. Some of those in each region specifically address temperature and the temps are at least as high as current temperatures. I wondered through several regions, some time ago, but am too lazy to go back and do that. That certainly seems sufficient to render the alarmist DENIAL dubious. My understanding is that the existing computer models cannot explain a 1,000 year old global warming with co2 level fixed at 280ppmv for several hundred thousands years.
The alarmists argues that a global MWP trend does not satisfy the “multi-decadel” warming criteria. (The boreholes seem to conflict with that, and what about our current warming which began at the first bottom during the LIA (mid 1600s ?). That’s natural warming for 200 years before co2 level began increasing, and at 2ppmv per year, how many more years before co2 could have possibly had any impact on our thermometers? That takes us forward another 100 years to 1950. (so 300 years of natural warming). But, from the 1940s to 1975 was a multi-decadel COOLING, so perhaps our current global warming only becomes a new candidate beginning in 1975?
And that leaves us with RSS and UAH data. (way too much “poetic license” in homogenizing the terrestrial data and then “losing” the raw data.)
But wait…. now the alarmists have some “new” satellite data which apparently conflicts with RSS and UAH. What’s that about?
The sad part is that warmists doesn’t realize, that Water and surface temperatures doesn’t matter for the AGW conjecture,only AIR temperature matters. The Satellite data shows negligible to zero evidence of any CO2 warming effect.