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By: Seth Borenstein The Associated Press, Published on Tue Sep 02 2014

WASHINGTON—As the world gets warmer, parts of North America, Europe and Asia could see more frequent and stronger visits of cold air, a new study says. Researchers say that’s because of shrinking ice in the seas off Russia.

New study finds global warming, melting sea ice, connected to polar vortex | Toronto Star

Last year they blamed the cold on missing Barents Sea ice. This year, Barents Sea ice is above normal – so they moved their BS to a different region. Climate experts make Bernie Madoff seem like a saint.

Long-lost satellite data reveal new insights to climate change

Once stashed in warehouses in Maryland and North Carolina, images and video captured from orbit by some of NASA’s first environmental satellites in the mid-1960s are now yielding a trove of scientific data. The Nimbus satellites, originally intended to monitor Earth’s clouds in visible and infrared wavelengths, also would have captured images of sea ice, researchers at the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center realized when they heard about the long-lost film canisters in 2009. After acquiring the film—and then tracking down the proper equipment to read and digitize its 16-shades-of-gray images, which had been taken once every 90 seconds or so—the team set about scanning and then stitching the images together using sophisticated software.

Long-lost satellite data reveal new insights to climate change | Science/AAAS | News

What a load of BS. The IPCC knew about this data in 1990, and they reported that ice extent was much lower in 1974 than in 1979.

h/t to Peter William Lount

https://twitter.com/DougWagner/status/507190293272096769

The Bathurst, NSW gaol kept temperature records from 1858 to 1983. Temperatures declined steadily during that period, as did the frequency of 100 degree days – which used to be quite common.

 COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

January of 1896 was the hottest month in Australia’s history, with many consecutive days over 120 degrees at Gundabooka – near Bourke.  Mark Twain joked that it was very close to hell.

 

TimesMachine: August 18, 1896 – NYTimes.com

Summer temperatures in Bourke have plummeted since the 1870’s.

During the year 1900, nearly one day out of four in Bourke reached 100 degrees. The frequency of 100 degree days has decreased by two thirds.

Zeke insists that temperature anomalies will produce different patterns for the US than absolute temperatures. So I tried it out.

The anomaly graph is almost identical. This is calculated by averaging the daily anomalies of the min/max thermometer readings from each station relative to the monthly mean for that station.

I expected this result, because the US has an excellent, consistent temperature record – with a large enough sample size so that errors cancel out.

Days in Australia over 100 degrees used to be much more common.

Australia’s hottest year was 1878.

Deadly cell phones in the hands of teenagers kill thousands of people every year, and injure hundreds of thousands. If CNN devoted an hour to every cell phone massacre, that would be all they covered 24X7.

The number of people killed in distraction-affected crashes decreased slightly from 3,360 in 2011 to 3,328 in 2012. An estimated 421,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, this was a nine percent increase from the estimated 387,000 people injured in 2011.

http://www.distraction.gov/content/get-the-facts/facts-and-statistics.html

It is clear that high capacity phones must be banned. Only six texts per day can be permitted.