It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on him not understanding it
- Upton Sinclair
You won’t read about this in the press, but Arctic sea ice extent is almost exactly “normal.”
Ice is melting very slowly, and extent is highest in several years.
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Arctic temperatures have been below normal for the entire month.
Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Government scientists continue to lie about the state of Arctic sea ice and climate in general, because their jobs and funding depend on creating alarm.
Those 2 or 3 missing ice cubes north of Russia are the worst catastrophe in human history. Worse than Hitler, worse than Stalin, worse than ISIS! Just think how ornary Putin will be if he can’t chill his vodka! He might nuke us all, and it is all your SUV’s fault!
It is difficult to make a scientists admitt that there is no AGW,
when the only reason for his salary and reputation is AGW.
Tony, after 2 decades of following Global Warming.. I think perhaps Climate Scientists entire Methodology is very flawed in a new way. Its as if these people have never handled large amounts of data.. Every alteration introduces Bias even if it seems to make sense, bias is introduced, and the combined dataset deviates further from the underlying measurements.
Rather than normalizing or using interpolation, and adjustments, then factoring in CO2 Changes.. Each Station could be compared to itself over time… With the overall trends summarized as opposed to the the underlying data being combined first..
Thus we can see overall trends per station compared to itself first.. Then trend up by area, or then combined Globally without introducing bias to the underlying data. In other words we’re looking for discrete trends per station +/- on any given measurement as opposed to figuring out some absolute Temperature, averages, .. But I agree min/max is important.
Some UHI should be factored in due to the longevity value of so many stations.. Rural Stations are more ideal of course.
It has nothing to do with methodology, unless you consider deliberate cheating to be a methodology.
If I recall correctly, UHI is countered with a .05C adjustment downwards. Because as we all know, our local weathermen always report that it will be .05C cooler outside the city.
Denver residents run out of the city on hot days. Colorado’s urbanites love the governmentally guaranteed cooling of 0.9 °F.
Looking at the image of that ice pack there is no way on God’s Earth that amounts to a ‘collapsing’ Arctic. Rhetoric over reality every time with alarmists.
As with much of the denial of the real world by progressives and their minions. For example an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist become a “suicide bomber” or just “a terrorist” because to admit his motivation would be to admit the truth that they refuse to acknowledge and have repeatedly denied.
God bless you RAH! You are spot on. They are not radicals, they are following the literal word of the prophet, which makes them fundamentalists.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
Winston Churchill as published in the original two volume set of ‘The River War’ 1899.
“Allāhu Akbar! Are you all radical extremists? Subhān Allāh. So, all of you are saying that you are common Muslims, you all go to the different mosques in Norway. Or are you like a specific sect, like the Islam Net sect, or anything like that? Are you like that? No. Is it … Are you like that? Please raise your hand if you are like that extreme Islam, that sect, or anything like that? No one, Allāhu Akbar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV710c1dgpU
‘Islam is Islam’
https://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=51fe948515b4
Just as frequently they become simply “extremists”.
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey calls the cowards out:
The words “extreme” and “extremist” have joined the use of “moderate” as a noun in the progressive vocabulary to obscure the obvious.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/05/23/morrissey-rips-british-politicians-manchester-attack-petrified-admit-islamic-extremism-behind-terror-attacks
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/265636
Well Andy Burnham(From the white intelectuall buttkissers The Smiths)
is a genius for realising that such an extreme crime could have only be done by an extremist.
And as every high end lefti hipocryt he is trying his best to turn attention away from the elephant in the room.
Islam.
Without extremism islam would be so small,all muslims would fit in a telephone cell.
When mohammed was peacefull he needed many years to get a few dozens followers.
The more followers he got the more violent he became.
The success for islam started when mohammed became a massmuderer.
Mohammed and the four kalifs have all been massmurders.
Ironically, Muslims conquering Damascus gave them the steel by the same name, which helped them take vast territories in Europe the first time.
I read somewhere that Burnham was a fan of the band but when he decided to go into leftist politics he started to “go off” The Smiths out of fear of appearing too superior and intellectual.
If you want to conquer a territory you have to be a mass murderer. Even Julius Caesar knew this. It is simple logic.
It’s like climate. Either it is cooling or it is warming. It can never be stable. That is why they changed to ‘climate change’.
They continually use “extreme” or “extremists” in many ways. Such terms are continually used in the press in politics. They term RINOs as “moderates” to portray conservatives as being on the extreme right. But they rarely if ever use such terms when referring to democrats.
How many years are we going to have to go before they change the mean?
..and who decided that was “normal” in the first place?
1 or 2 standard deviations from the mean is pretty standard. As for who, decided what is “normal”? I don’t know, but they have to be the crowd that believes that the climate we have now is “normal” and any deviation or change is “abby normal”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH97lImrr0Q
Ahh, the great late Marty Feldman … his acting career was something else. Unforgettable face and comedic timing.
1981-2010
There is no “normal” in climate or weather. I convinced my state climatologist to stop using the word “normal” in his writings on climate (and weather), he now uses the correct term “average”, and he thanked me for correcting him.
“… he thanked me for correcting him.”
That is not normal, though it should be.
It is certainly not average, either.
that’s neither normal nor average for a climatologist.
He’s above average for sure.
average is set VERY low for climatologists. !!
Jon Rappoport has great new insight on “the vision and pitfalls of modern technology:“
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/the-vision-of-technoc
Our top story tonight…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=butZyxI-PRs
I was curious if there were going to be any row to the Pole type things this summer. I found a square rigger trip that might make for fun observation and mockery should they get stuck. Who knows. http://arcticnorthwestpassage.blogspot.com/2017/05/arctic-square-rigger-sailing-voyage.html?view=classic
With “record low ice” in the Arctic I would expect not an attempt or two but a huge race to the Pole …
… and I don’t mean something tiny like Amundsen vs. Scott but rather an armada of global warming kayakers in a mass race like the Oklahoma Land Rush.
The land closest to the pole has the thickest ice, and is still 450 miles.
Steiner will get there. The Arctic heat will melt it.
From 80 deg to 87 deg, the buoys are all well below freezing and the sun is almost at maximum…Page: http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/
Cool !!!
Phony 1/100ths degrees.
not really “phony”..
The buoys send back data to 2dp.
The error margins, a different matter. :-)
MASIE is continuing to show the SLOWEST melt from maximum in its whole record (starts 2006)
NSIDC is continuing to show the SLOWEST melt from maximum this century.
“The American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television.” Richard Nixon, U.S. president
Hopefully people are still reading this post instead of moving on to the next one, as I have a question: in the “Arctic Sea Ice Extent” graph near the top, what is the conceptual difference between the “Climate Data Record” and the “Operational Product”? Not sure what these terms mean.
Thanks.
The operational product has to be validated before it becomes part of the permanent record.
Just conjecture here but I know that at times satellite data gets corrupted for various reasons having to do with hardware maladjustment or failure or the orbit of the satellite being perturbed. A few years ago they missed a slab of sea ice off Alaska that was larger than Texas due to technical difficulties.
Ahh, I see. Thanks very much!
Do you post any comments from folks that do not agree with everything you say ?
The only comments I block are spam or abusive comments.
Yes, he does. This is not an granto-alarmist site with obligatory bore holes, like the site Joe Romm ru(i)ns.
A place for comments that would otherwise disrupt sensible conversations.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/the-bore-hole/
Tony knows more than enough about climate science to know that it is not settled, and that alarmists cannot hold up to open debate. So yes, the doomers, the alarmists and the grantologists all have their say here John.
John…all the time
Griff, Rick, and La Nita come to mind right off the bat
Why don’t you give it a try and see?…. :D