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Antarctica just set their all-time record for June 27 sea ice, and the highest anomaly ever recorded.  The Independent responds with this :

Over half of emperor penguins will be ‘wiped out by end of the century’ due to melting sea ice – Climate Change – Environment – The Independent

h/t to martin

The use of anomalies and infilling cleans up the temperature record, as shown below.

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David Appell says that area is now measured by volume.

Twitter / davidappell: @VariabilityBlog Yet another …

Nobel Laureate Albert Arnold Gore Jr. said there was a 75% chance the Arctic would be ice free this summer, but in fact we have seen quite the opposite.

The amount of sea ice on Earth is 4th highest on record for the date, and the highest since 1996.

 arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.global.anom.1979-2008

Every skeptic and potential investor I talk to is afraid of being targeted by the IRS or the DOJ, because everyone believes that the White House is using these agencies (successfully) to stifle political dissent.

This is not how the US is supposed to work. The US Constitution can’t survive under this sort of abuse of power.  Republicans need leaders who are serious about defending the US, and they certainly do not have that now.

More news from Paul Homewood. The man who can explain things so simply, that even a climate scientist can understand it.

The team uses a number of Old Jedi mind tricks to beat skeptics into submission

The data needs to be infilled due to changing station composition

That is exactly what you don’t want to do if the cooler rural stations are disappearing systematically

Essential adjustments cool the past

The exact opposite is true. UHI is the dominant driver of warming, and adjustments should cool the present.

A hotter climate has more energy and thus produces more extreme weather

Extreme weather is driven by differences in energy, and are normally associated with polar air. Superstorm Sandy became so large, because it collided with very cold polar air which produced record snow in West Virginia. A warming Arctic would produce less extreme weather, and make the climate more like Hawaii.

More CO2 means more trapped heat

Almost all of the radiation in CO2’s spectra is already being absorbed by H2O and existing CO2.  Adding more CO2 does little because there is little energy left that it can absorb.

These people just make up crap and pass it off as “basic physics.”

Progressives like Barack Obama imagine that they have science on their side, because they actually don’t know anything about science.

Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species

Replying to Skeptics, NASA Defends Claims About Mars
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: August 8, 1996

WASHINGTON Aug. 7— Scientists and space agency officials today reaffirmed their claim of finding strong evidence for past life on Mars and asked skeptics among the world’s scientists to join them in conducting even more rigorous tests needed to confirm or disprove it.

Daniel S. Goldin, the NASA Administrator, said the possibility of Martian life, however primitive, would prompt a thorough review of the nation’s program of exploring the planet. Some of the currently planned 10 robotic missions to Mars might be re-evaluated, he said, and serious thought would be given to speeding up plans for returning a sample of Martian rocks on a robotic mission that had been scheduled for no earlier than 2005.

Replying to Skeptics, NASA Defends Claims About Mars – NYTimes.com