By rights, the beluga should have been 2,000 miles to the north in the Barents Sea. Thousands of belugas live among the ice floes that litter the area east of the Svalbard archipelago, but only on extremely rare occasions do they swim as far south as the British Isles.
h/t Martin
Climate fraudsters like Dr. James Hansen and Joe Romm are lying about Greenland “melting down”and saying that it will drown coastal cities.
The interior of Greenland never got anywhere close to the melting point in July.
85% of Greenland’s surface has gained ice over the past year.
The surface of Greenland has gained 250 million tons of ice over the past year.
There has been no change in the average rate of sea level rise over the past century. Fastest rates were from 1925 to 1950.
There isn’t one shred of real word evidence to back up any of these criminals’ claims about a meltdown or catastrophic sea level rise.
Temperatures across the Arctic Ocean have turned very cold for this time of year, and melt has nearly stopped in the Arctic Basin
A storm in the Beaufort Sea is pushing thick ice towards the coasts, and causing extent to increase. Extent is continuing to track just below 2006, the year with the highest minimum of the past decade.
Most of the Arctic is covered with clouds, so the slow melt will continue.
Government scientists know perfectly well that global warming isn’t happening. Their best data is from satellites, which show no warming for almost twenty years.
But there is $29 billion per year being distributed by the government to perpetuate this massive fraud – so it continues.
The Arctic Basin is full of ice, most of which is thick multi-year ice – and cold temperatures have settled in over the region.
In a few weeks, there will be a huge increase in four year old ice, as the three year old ice (green) reaches its birthday. Most of the Arctic Basin is now covered with multi-year ice.
Arctic sea ice is making a very strong recovery, but government funded climate criminals will not mention this – because they are paid to generate global warming propaganda for the White House, not disseminate factual information.
NOAA makes a large adjustment to the US temperature record based on Time Of Observation Bias. The idea is that most station operators were morons in the 1930’s, and reset their min/max thermometers in the afternoon – causing double counting of warm days.
It is easy to test this, by eliminating all stations which took readings in the afternoon during July 1936.
The set of all stations shows about 0.3C warming since 1895.
The set of stations which took morning readings during July, 1936 shows slightly more warming – about 0.4C. These stations are biased cold in the past, because they took their readings too close to the daily minimum.
The total bias caused by afternoon TOBS is a little more than 0.1C (0.2F)
This is much less than the bloated adjustment used by USHCN. But what about hot days? Did afternoon TOBS cause double counting of hot days in 1936? The evidence shows that there was little if any such effect. The trend is almost identical between the two data sets.
The total NOAA adjustment is nearly two degrees F. It is unsupportable nonsense, and fraud.
Hansen claims that his models predicted Antarctic sea ice expansion
In this sense, expanding Antarctic sea ice might be anything but good news.
Indeed, in the troubling scenario outlined by Hansen and his colleagues, it’s part of a series of feedbacks that lead to rapid sea level rise. “Amplifying feedbacks, including slowdown of [the Southern ocean’s overturning circulation] and cooling of the near-Antarctic ocean surface with increasing sea ice, may spur nonlinear growth of Antarctic ice sheet mass loss,” write Hansen and his colleagues.
“Effects of freshwater injection and resulting ocean stratification are occurring sooner in the real world than in our model,” they add.
Reached by phone, Hansen added that one reason he thinks the model he is using is is right — and other models are not — is that it captures Antarctic sea ice expansion. “All the other models have sea ice disappearing as the planet get warmer,” he says. He also thinks the Antarctic ice expansion trend will continue, along with ice sheet melt.
“It will be clearer, give us a few more years,” he says.
Climate change skeptics may be about to lose one of their favorite arguments – The Washington Post
Give him a few more years? Thirty years ago he predicted peak sea ice loss right where the peak ice gain has occurred in Antarctica. The exact opposite of what he claims now.
Hansen is a completely incompetent hack with a big mouth who has been wrong about everything. That makes him the world’s greatest climate scientist.
You just can’t make up stupid like this.
Nation’s capital sinking into the sea, study says
new research from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Vermont shows that the land in the district — where the Lincoln Memorial was built on silt dredged from the Potomac River — is expected to fall 6 inches or more during the next 100 years, raising flood fears and adding to worries about the effect of rising sea levels on low-lying cities across the USA. “It’s ironic that the nation’s capital, the place least responsive to the dangers of climate change, is sitting in one of the worst spots it could be,” Paul Bierman, a geologist at the University of Vermont in Burlington and senior author of a new paper about Washington’s descent, said in a statement. “Will the Congress just sit there with their feet getting ever wetter?”
This genius does a study about land subsidence, and somehow ties it to a topic (climate) he obviously understands nothing about. Is he actually stupid enough to believe that Congress controls sea level? No one in Congress has wet feet. The Lincoln Memorial is thirty feet above the River.
Washington flooded in 1936, due to water flowing down the Potomac. It has nothing to do with the ocean or sea level.
James Hansen claimed this week that Greenland is melting down and will drown coastal cities.
It is July 28, and temperatures in the interior of Greenland are -21C
Eighty five percent of Greenland’s surface has gained mass over the last year.
Fraudsters like James Hansen have gotten used to lying with impunity decade after decade, and having the press lap it up – they seem to think that no lie is too big to get away with.
I’ve been an environmentalist all my life. I fought for the Clean Air Act and wilderness in the 1970’s. I volunteered as a wilderness ranger two summers in the 1980’s. I ride my bicycle everywhere, and won’t get in a car unless I have no other choice.
My goal now is to stop this mindless global warming scam, which distracts from real problems and leads greens to madness – building unbelievably destructive things like wind farms.
