In case you needed any more evidence that the climate science world is completely FOS, this story is unbelievable.
Another reason why NSIDC doesn’t talk about pre-1979 satellite data, is that during the winters of 1974-1976, Antarctic sea ice never froze over completely. A huge hole in Weddell Sea ice formed during the winter.
In the image below, I overlaid August 1976 ice on August, 2012 ice (white.) Note the large increase in winter sea ice which has occurred over the last 40 years.
Weddell_Poly_J_Clima.. – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Hansen forecast peak ice loss for the Weddell Sea. Instead, it has seen peak ice gain and is at an all time record this year. Another inverted Hansen prediction.
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/downloads/Challenge_chapter2.pdf
The really amazing thing is that right now – at the end of the Antarctic summer – there is ice in places where there was none during the winters of 1974-1976.
According to NASA, this area of massive ice gain is the fastest warming place on earth. You can’t make up BS like the climate science world does.
Disintegration: Antarctic Warming Claims Another Ice Shelf : Feature Articles
In a similar vein, pre-1979 satellite data shows 1979 Arctic ice coverage to be a local maximum with the Arctic ice coverage ramping up for the years from 1973 to 1979 before declining after 1979. This was clearly shown in IPCC AR1. While 1973 was not as low as 2012 it would seem that anything hinting at a possible cyclical nature for Arctic ice coverage rather than a “death spiral” must be expunged. Reminds me somewhat of the “hide the decline” fiasco.
It’s something new called AIEDS.
Antarctic Ice Expansion Denier Science.
It’s an epidemic.
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
Record ice area during southern hemisphere summer anything to do with amazing lack of warmth in world’s oceans and 3 La Ninas in a row ?
From – New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming? – by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt –
“We need not wait until 2030 to see whether the forecast of the next deep Gleissberg minimum is correct. A declining trend in solar activity and global temperature should become manifest long before the deepest point in the development.”
“The current 11-year sunspot cycle 23 with its considerably weaker activity seems to be a first indication of the new trend, especially as it was predicted on the basis of solar motion cycles two decades ago. As to temperature, only El Niño periods should interrupt the downward trend, but even El Niños should become less frequent and strong. ”
“The outcome of this further long-range climate forecast solely based on solar activity may be considered to be a touchstone of the IPCC’s hypothesis of man-made global warming.”
Recent evidence seems to be lending support to his predictions – this paper was published more than a decade ago.
Of course a decade of, no scratch that, 15 years of, no scratch that, 30 years or more of a pause in global warming is needed to invalidate the holy hypothesis !