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Earth is heading into its third year of above average sea ice cover, as government scientists, politicians and the press continue to insist that the poles are melting. Somehow they can’t grasp the fact that sea ice is an indication of cold at high latitudes.

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NASA and NCDC will announce today that Earth was the hottest ever in 2014, ignoring their own satellite data, and destroying whatever smidgen of scientific credibility they had left.

Why would NASA trust their own satellites, when they have a piss poor network of surface stations which doesn’t cover much of the planet, and they insist needs to be massively adjusted?

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In a stunning repeat of the 16th century, the Pope has announced that humans are the center of the climate universe.

The Vatican has a well known record of excellence when stepping into scientific matters, like when they burned Giordano Bruno at the stake for saying that Earth is not the center of the universe.

BBC News – Snow and gales bring disruption to UK

It has been 15 years since Britain’s top experts announced the end of snow, but that was before they understood that global warming made it cold and snowy in the same way that global cooling does.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

The climate is ruined. So can civilization even survive? – CNN.com

Global warming has destroyed civilization.

Meanwhile, back in the Washington DC area, lawmakers are dealing with the coldest 13 month period since 1941, and fifth coldest on record.

According to CNN and MSNBC, free speech means you can criticize Christianity or Judaism, but not Islam.

Powerful Global Warming Pollution Cut by New U.S. Rules – Scientific American

Radiative transfer models used in climate models show that 2 PPM methane has almost no effect on Earth’s radiative balance, and that even a 10X increase would have almost no impact. And it oxidizes quickly in the atmosphere so the concentration could never get very high in Earth’s atmosphere anyway.

The only thing “powerful” is the level of bullshit by Scientific American and the White House.

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Study: Sea level rise accelerating more than once thought

By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON — The world’s oceans are now rising far faster than they did in the past, a new study says.

The study found that for much of the 20th century — until about 1990 — sea level was about 30 percent less than earlier research had figured. But that’s not good news, scientists say, because about 25 years ago the seas started rising faster and the acceleration in 1990 turns out to be more dramatic than previously calculated.

The current sea level rise rate — which started in 1990 — is 2.5 times faster than it was from 1900 to 1990, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Scientists say that faster pace of sea level rise is from melting ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica and shrinking glaciers, triggered by man-made global warming.

“We’re seeing a significant acceleration in the past few decades,” said study lead author Carling Hay, a geophysical researcher at Harvard University. “It’s concerning for cities along the U.S. East Coast” where water levels are rising even faster than the world average.

“It’s definitely something that can’t be ignored,” Hay said.

Study: Sea level rise accelerating more than once thought

This is utter nonsense. Tide gauges along the East Coast (or anywhere else) don’t show an uptick 25 years ago. In fact, they show the fastest rise before 1950.

Tide gauges on the west coast don’t show any sea level rise over the past 25 years

What changed is that they added satellite data to the mix in 1992, which shows big bulges in the middle of the ocean in regions where the error is almost as large as the trend. A signal/noise ratio of 0.

Global mean sea level results

A recent study of tide gauges showed a slight decrease in sea level rise rates since 1970

The new reconstruction  suggests a linear trend of 1.9 ± 0.3 mm·yr?1 during the 20th century, with 1.8 ± 0.5 mm·yr?1 since 1970.

http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/504181/1/1-s2.0-S0921818113002750-main.pdf

The claims of an acceleration in sea level rise are mindless nonsense. It is equivalent to switching to an uncalibrated scale, and claiming that you lost weight as soon as you switched scales.

Experts say that the Arctic is ice free, but here in the Washington DC area we are frozen solid.