Real Climate Science

A few years ago, Mark Serreze announced that the death spiral Arctic is screaming and had become as “ice island.”

The North Pole becomes an ‘island’ for the first time in history as ice melts

By FIONA MACRAE
UPDATED: 18:32 EST, 1 September 2008

The North Pole has become an island for the first time in human history.

Startling satellite pictures taken three days ago show that melting ice has opened up the fabled North-West and North-East Passages – making it possible to sail around the Arctic ice cap.

The opening of the passages has been eagerly awaited by shipping companies which hope they will be able to cut thousands of miles off their routes.

But to climate change scientists it is yet another sign of the damage global warming is inflicting on the planet.

Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist, described the images as an ‘historic event’ – but warned they added to fears that the Arctic icecap has entered a ‘death spiral’.

The pictures, produced by Nasa, mark the first time in at least 125,000 years that the two shortcuts linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have been ice-free at the same time.

Amazing. Walt Meier from NSIDC/NASA said that the Arctic was ice free sometime in the last 7,000 years.

The North Pole becomes an ‘island’ for the first time in history as ice melts | Mail Online

Sow how is Serreze’ screaming death spiral looking today? Both passages are closed.

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Our green friends are killing about a quarter of a million birds per year at just one solar plant, and report it as “about a thousand”

California’s massive Ivanpah solar power plant can produce enough electricity for 140,000 households — but the environmental cost is nothing less than an avian slaughter.

The plant’s 350,000 mirrors bounce sizzling sunlight to the tops of three 40-story boiler towers, heating steam for turbine electricity generators. Temperatures near the towers can reach up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, heat certainly sufficient to fry a fowl.

I’m sure that 1,000 degree air doesn’t affect the climate.

“Workers at the state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — ‘streamers,’ for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair,” the Associated Pressreports this week.

That’s a common occurrence, the AP continues; federal investigators saw a bird burn roughly every two minutes. Ivanpah owner BrightSource estimates that “about a thousand” die each year, and one environmental group says the plant kills up to 28,000 birds each year. 

One bird every two minutes would be more than 250,000 per year.

As the plant prepared to begin operations, workers found the winged corpses of “a peregrine falcon, a grebe, two hawks, four nighthawks, and a variety of warblers and sparrows,” the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.

Dead-Bird ‘Steamers’ at a California Solar Plant | National Review Online

h/t to top Dave G

Red shows ice loss over the last three days, green shows gain. Melt has almost stopped for the summer.

The next two maps show the increase in ice since 2007 and 2012

Student arrested for conspiracy to murder a dinosaur.

A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun.

Alex Stone said he and his classmates were told in class to write a few sentences about themselves, and a “status” as if it was a Facebook page.

Stone said in his “status” he wrote a fictional story that involved the words “gun” and “take care of business.”

“I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur, and, then, in the next status I said I bought the gun to take care of the business,” Stone said.

Summerville police officials say Stone’s bookbag and locker were searched on Tuesday, and a gun was not found.

High school student says he was arrested for killing dinosaur in – NBC12.com – Richmond, VA News

Imaginary guns are a huge threat, but did the police make any effort to track down the dinosaur?

I had a long discussion today with an immigrant from the Caribbean. She moved to Baltimore in 1990, and taught in the public schools there for several years, until her husband insisted that she quit.

Every day as a teacher she was threatened and abused by “black teenage boys.” She said that people have no idea how frightening it is dealing with these gangsters. She said it had nothing to do with money – the Baltimore Schools are the best funded in region.

She said that kids throw laptops and other pieces of expensive equipment on the floor. They have no interest in learning, and have never been taught any responsibility.

She arrived in the US uneducated and by working hard got a Masters degree over the next 19 years. It is a cultural problem, not a racial bias problem.

It is not a black vs. white problem. It is sick white progressives feeding a sick culture of entitlement.

Check out the view at our brand new Whole Foods Market in Columbia, MD. What a fabulous place!

After learning about the great joys of living in Islamic dominated countries, it becomes clear why progressive European governments have set down the path to become Muslim dominated within a generation.

My Begonia appears to have survived NOAA’s hottest and most extreme year on record!

Yesterday, readers taught me that I shouldn’t enjoy life because

1. I blog too much
2. I shouldn’t enjoy soccer
3. I shouldn’t enjoy the opening of Whole Foods today.

See – I don’t have a TV so I don’t know which things I am not supposed to enjoy. Please tell me what other aspects of life I shouldn’t enjoy.  Thanks in advance.

Progressives tell us that all of creation is accidental, and the result of entropy and disorder.

“the scientist’s religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.”

– Albert Einstein