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US Forest fire burn acreage through August 27 continues to be the lowest of the current millennium.

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Google AI is worse than ChatGPT about answering climate questions. It appears unable to process new information.

In the March 1, 1975 edition of Science News they discussed how global cooling was making the climate more extreme and also discussed how the Urban Heat Island effect caused 2-4 degrees warming in cities.

Climate Change: Chilling Possibilities | Science News

According to NASA, Argentina has warmed very rapidly since the year 1900.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4): Global Maps

Argentina is more than 2,000 miles long and NASA says they have monthly temperature data at four locations during the first half of the 20th century

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4): Station Data

Two of those stations are near the center of very large cities, and show a lot of warming. Neither are suitable for climate analysis, because they are both severely contaminated with Urban Heat Island effects.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4)

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4)

The third station at Goya is too short and fragmented to be of any value.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4)

The only good station in NASA’s data set is at Bahia Blanca, and it shows no warming, So NASA contaminates the data with UHI affected data from other sites, and creates a non-existent warming trend for the entire country.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (v4)

NASA created the warming in Argentina by contaminating the only station of any value (which showed no warming) with UHI contaminated data from other stations.

Temperatures in cities have been known for a long time to be much warmer than surrounding rural areas. Instead of eliminating the Urban Heat Island contaminated data, NASA and NOAA use it contaminate surrounding rural stations as well.

Google AI says Hudson Bay Polar Bears are at risk of extinction, with record numbers of bears. Both are caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

‘Polar bear capital of the world’ soon to be overrun with record number of bears due to shifting sea ice | Live Science

There is more Antarctic sea ice now (16.6 million km. sq.) than there was during August 1966, but experts say it hasn’t been this low during August in 7.5 million years.

“in August 1966 the maximum sea ice extent fell to 15.9×10 km ± 0.3×10 km . This is more than 1.5×10 km below the passive microwave record of 17.5×10 km set in September of 1986. This variation between 1964 and 1966 represents a change of maximum sea ice of over 3×10 km in just two years”

Anomalous Variability in Antarctic Sea Ice Extents During the 1960s

h/t Ulric Lyons.

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ABC News says this is a five sigma event which occurs once every 7.5 million years.

“He said vast regions of the Antarctic coastline were ice free for the first time in the observational record.

“To say unprecedented isn’t strong enough,” Dr Doddridge said.

“For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it’s five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we’d expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.”

Antarctic sea ice levels dive in ‘five-sigma event’, as experts flag worsening consequences for planet – ABC News

Oil companies produce products which keep most of the world’s population alive from day to day.  The UN considers this a human rights violation.

Saudi Aramco Targeted in UN Human Rights Probe Tied to Climate Change – Bloomberg

The Biden White House created the largest methane leak in history when they blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, and they want to ban gas stoves – which release almost no methane into the atmosphere.

The Nord Stream gas leak emitted up to 500,000 tons of methane : NPR

House passes bill to block federal gas stove ban – POLITICO

The magnitude of the negative Antarctic sea ice anomaly is nearly identical to that of the positive anomaly from 2014.

OSI-420 | osisaf-hl.met.no

ABC News says this is a five sigma event which occurs once every 7.5 million years.

“He said vast regions of the Antarctic coastline were ice free for the first time in the observational record.

“To say unprecedented isn’t strong enough,” Dr Doddridge said.

“For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it’s five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we’d expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.”

Antarctic sea ice levels dive in ‘five-sigma event’, as experts flag worsening consequences for planet – ABC News

Antarctica is surrounded by hundreds of miles of ice.

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Using the same climate math, the heatwave of 1936 was also a five sigma event (relative to 1960-2023) – so it never could have happened.

“There are lies, damned lies and statistics”
-Benjamin Disraeli