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Arctic sea ice coverage is nearly identical to 20 years ago

Daily Arctic Sea Ice Maps

Arctic sea ice is following almost the exact trajectory of 2006, which had the highest summer minimum of the last decade.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Temperatures in the Beaufort Sea are forecast to remain below the freezing point through the first two weeks of the summer melt season

The Beaufort Sea is full of very thick ice.

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Arctic sea ice is about the same thickness (2 meters) as it was 75 years ago.

Papers Past — Auckland Star — 14 December 1940 — WARMER ARCTIC

Arctic sea ice is the thickest it has been in a decade.

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Climate experts say the Arctic has been ice-free since 2013

Business leaders discuss climate – The Science Show – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

They have been making the same predictions for as long as anyone can remember.

TimesMachine: October 19, 1958 – NYTimes.com

Climate experts have no idea what they are talking about, and they never did. There is no reason to believe that Earth is headed towards an ice-free Arctic.

From Wikipedia

The Little Ice Age was a period from about 1550 to 1850 when the world experienced relatively cooler temperatures compared to the present. Subsequently, until about 1940, glaciers around the world retreated as the climate warmed substantially. Glacial retreat slowed and even reversed temporarily, in many cases, between 1950 and 1980 as global temperatures cooled slightly.

Retreat of glaciers since 1850 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is difficult to overstate how stupid this line of thinking is.

They claim that glaciers melted as the climate warmed rapidly from 1850 to 1940, but then a slight cooling after 1940 caused glaciers to advance. The theory they are promoting is that the freezing point of water is controlled by whether temperatures are increasing, or decreasing – not the absolute temperature. That is just plain idiotic.

Humans surpassed this level of ignorance hundreds of years ago, until brain-dead climate science became prominent. These really are the world’s stupidest people.

While extreme weather events like droughts and floods occur naturally in Texas, precipitation in the state is becoming more variable, making droughts more potent and increasing the risk of heavy rainfall and flooding, Hayhoe said.

Climate Change May Have Souped Up Record-Breaking Texas Deluge – Scientific American

Precipitation in Texas is not changing. It is not becoming more variable.

I lived just a few blocks away from the Brazos River in Richmond during this 1992 flood

Sun Journal – Google News Archive Search

Floods in Texas happen all the time. In 1979, they had 43 inches of rain in one day at NASA Houston. At least four times as much as this week’s “record rainfall”

Weather Research Center – Houston Texas [email protected]

During the 1935 flood, two-thirds of the county was flooded

Houston had a major flood every six years from 1836 to 1936. It has nothing to do with “climate change”

Harris County suffered through 16 major floods from 1836 to 1936, some of which crested at more than 40 feet, turning downtown Houston streets into raging rivers.

Harris County Flood Control District – Harris County’s Flood History

Allison: A Name We’ll Never Forget Tropical Storm Allison suddenly formed 80 miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas, on Tuesday, June 5, 2001, no one expected that, five days later, it would go on record as one of the most devastating rain events in the history of the United States. Neither historical data nor weather forecasts could adequately predict this extraordinary storm that, before leaving the area, would dump as much as 80 percent of the area’s average annual rainfall over much of Harris County,

Hayhoe is a Canuck who showed up in Texas a few years ago, thinks she is an expert on Texas climate, and thinks she is superior to real Texans. She has no clue what she is talking about.

Ten year drought. Floods. Say whatever BS is necessary to keep funding coming in.

This weather vane wonders why I look like Toto

This guy believes that a 12 month mean will give you  different number depending on which order the months are averaged.

The president is not only an expert at skeet shooting, but also at hurricane forecasting.

Tropical Storm ANDRES Forecast Discussion

h/t Ryan Maue

Like Katherine Hayhoe, White House science advisor Al Sharpton believes that Texas flooding is due to man’s sins (carbon or otherwise.)

But transitions from drought to flood are normal for Texas, as occurred in 1918, 1952, 1957, and many other times.

13 Sep 1952 – FLOODS FOLLOW TEXAS DROUGHT Australian Associate…

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Since 1979, Antarctic sea ice has increased by the same amount as Arctic sea ice has decreased

Prior to 1979, Arctic sea ice increased by the same amount as Antarctic ice decreased.

NSIDC cleverly truncates the pre-1979 data, because it wrecks their fake global warming theory.  The poles are cyclical and move opposite each other. Actual scientists would try to understand it, rather than simply denying that they know about it.

The Earth is not warming, and hasn’t been for almost 20 years.

The three year mean of May 25 global sea ice area is at a record high. This indicates a persistent increase in the amount of sea ice on Earth.

 arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008