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Arctic Ice Melt Seen Doubling Risk of Harsh Winter in EU
By Stefan Nicola
Oct 26, 2014 2:00 PM ET

The decline in Arctic sea ice has doubled the chance of severe winters in Europe andAsia in the past decade, according to researchers in Japan.

Sea-ice melt in the Arctic, Barents and Kara seas since 2004 has made more than twice as likely atmospheric circulations that suck cold Arctic air to Europe and Asia, a group of Japanese researchers led by the University of Tokyo’s Masato Mori said in a study published today in Nature Geoscience.

“This counterintuitive effect of the global warming that led to the sea ice decline in the first place makes some people think that global warming has stopped. It has not,” Colin Summerhayes, emeritus associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, said in a statement provided by the journal Nature Geoscience, where the study is published.

To reach their findings, they had performed about 200 computer simulations of the global atmospheric circulation using a model based on two distinct settings for Arctic sea-ice concentrations.

Arctic Ice Melt Seen Doubling Risk of Harsh Winter in EU – Bloomberg

Sea ice extent in the Barents and Kara Seas is normal. More expensive taxpayer funded fact-free science from the team.

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High and Low Temperatures | Climate Change | US EPA

NCDC and EPA claim that hot summer maximums were more widespread in 2012 than they were in 1936. The animation below shows how spectacularly fraudulent those claims are.

2012 wasn’t even in the same ballpark as 1936. This is just blatant fraud.

There were no 110 degree temperatures in the central US this year.

Contrary to the BS being propagated by NCDC, heat in the midwest was far hotter and more widespread in 1936 than it was in 2012.

NCDC claims that the summer of 2012 had more widespread “unusually hot daily high temperatures” than the summer of 1936.

This is complete bullshit. The maps below show the HCN stations over 110 degrees during the summers of 2012 and 1936. Hot weather was much more widespread in 1936 than it was in 2012.

 The animation below flashes between the two summers. As you can see, NCDC is committing blatant fraud.

NCDC claimed July, 2012 was the hottest on record in the US. The map below shows all of the stations which reached 110 degrees in July, 2012

  Now compare vs. July 1936, which had nearly 150 stations over 110 degrees.

 This agrees with the original Weather Bureau map from July, 1936

The animation below flashes between the two years.

The fraudsters at NCDC claim that the area of hot maximum summer temperatures in 2012 was much higher than 1936.

Their data tampering is completely wrecking the US temperature record.

From April, 2013

“See You At Chelsea In July” | Real Science

During 1936, a huge swath of the country was over 110 degrees.

This year, there were only a few stations which reached 110 degrees. The animation below flashes between 1936 and 2014

In 1934, almost the entire country reached 100 degrees.

The fraudsters at NCDC claim that the area of hot maximum temperatures in the US is higher now than 1934

This map shows all the HCN stations which didn’t reach 90 degrees this year

Compare vs. the same map from 1931

h/t to Tom Nelson