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Joe Romm reported today that missing Arctic sea ice caused the cold winter in the East, and the California drought. This stunning new research is worth a closer look. In fact you may need a magnifying glass to find the missing ice, which controls all evil things on the planet.

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_daily_extent.png

Climate scientists are blaming the cold weather on Arctic ice loss.

Bombshell: Study Ties Epic California Drought, ‘Frigid East’ To Manmade Climate Change

BY JOE ROMM ON APRIL 15, 2014 AT 4:52 PM

Natural variability alone cannot explain the extreme weather pattern that has driven both the record-setting California drought and the cooler weather seen in the Midwest and East this winter, a major new study finds.

We’ve reported before that climate scientists had predicted a decade ago that warming-driven Arctic ice loss would lead to worsening drought in California. In particular, they predicted it would lead to a “blocking pattern” that would shift the jet stream (and the rain it could bring) away from the state — in this case a “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” of high pressure.

A new study in Geophysical Research Letters (subs. req’d) takes the warming link to the California drought to the next level of understanding. It concludes, “there is a traceable anthropogenic warming footprint in the enormous intensity of the anomalous ridge during winter 2013-14, the associated drought and its intensity.”

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426810/california-drought-climate-change/

Other than the facts that Arctic ice extent is almost exactly at the 30 year median, and that the same weather pattern has happened lots of times before – I see no problem with this junk science.

In 1977, a nearly identical pattern set up with warmth in Alaska, drought in California, and cold in Florida. Arctic sea ice was near a peak at the time.

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Al Gore won his Nobel Peace Price in 2007, and predicted the Arctic would be ice-free in 2014. Since he made that prediction, there has been no change in Arctic sea ice area.

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

One of the standard excuses for the team to ignore Antarctic sea ice has been “the Arctic is losing sea ice much faster than the Antarctic has been gaining it.” As is normally the case with climate experts, they have no clue what they are talking about. The graph below shows Antarctic sea ice in red, and Arctic sea ice in green.

Some of the greatest prophets of our time are Paul Ehrlich, James Hansen, Harold Camping, the Mayans, and now the IPCC – all of whom made nearly identical forecasts about the end of the world coming soon.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore says that the 16 foot thick ice in the Beaufort Sea will all melt in the next few weeks.

http://www.examiner.com/article/gore-arctic-ocean-ice-free-as-early-as-2014

2013 and 2012 had the fewest US tornadoes on record, and 2014 has had less than one-third the normal amount for the date.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/ptorngraph.png

Lake Erie has unprecedented mid-April ice, and the geniuses at the Cleveland Plain Dealer want to stop global warming

http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/human-caused_global_warming_ca.html

Tomorrow afternoon’s forecast for Cleveland is 34F and snow.

4 dead, 33 hurt after weekend shootings

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-2-shot-in-separate-shootings-20140412,0,2196005.story