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At the peak of the melt season, there is almost nothing happening in the Arctic. Red shows ice loss since July 11, and green shows ice gain. The melt season will start to wind down in the next three weeks, as the sun gets low in the Arctic sky.

Burn acreage through July 18 is about one third of normal.

National Interagency Fire Center

One of the biggest lies being spread by the team is that the US is having an historic drought.

In fact, the US is wetter than normal

Climate at a Glance: Time Series | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)

Compare vs. 80 years ago, when 80% of the US was experiencing drought.

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And July has been even wetter than June.

Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States

It isn’t always cold in Tennessee in July. All but two of their July maximum temperature records were set prior to 1953

h/t to Andy DC

Many times people don’t see what it is right in front of their face

July 19, 2014 at 4:59 am

Scientists have discovered that thermometers read 1.5 degrees too high in the 1940s, and you have to make all those sick days now. You didn’t really have a fever.

Temperatures were typically taken in the afternoon, and are now taken in the morning. This causes a warming bias which requires an EPA approved anal probe.

The North Pole is almost two thirds of the way through its melt season, and temperatures have been below normal every day this summer. Last summer, temperatures were also below normal every day.

  COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Republicans are melting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet irreversibly, so we need to destroy the economy in order to reverse it.

While our planet melts, GOP pleads ignorance

This is exactly the same story as 35 years ago, except Steven Schneider wasn’t certain it was the Republicans doing it.

TimesMachine: January 8, 1979 – NYTimes.com

Five years earlier, the same Steven Schneider was upset that Nixon wouldn’t listen to his dire warnings about global cooling.

TimesMachine: The Genesis Strategy; A chilling prospect – NYTimes.com

One thing about these charlatans and lunatics, is that they provide nearly endless entertainment.

This is my current commute to the food store, until Whole Foods opens in a month. Note that the climate and ecosystem are completely falling apart – full of verdant vegetation, flowers and bees pollinating the flowers.

Government experts call this climate/bee colony collapse.

2006 had the highest Arctic sea ice minimum extent of the past decade, and 2014 is tracking 2006 quite closely.

 COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut