Real Climate Science

March 3 was a very cold day in the US.  78 stations in 13 different states from Arkansas to Minnesota to Wyoming set record low temperatures. Coldest was -33F at STAMBAUGH 2SSE    Michigan.

NEWPORT                            	AR	1.04
ALEDO                              	IL	-9.94
CARLINVILLE                        	IL	-2.02
HOOPESTON                          	IL	-2.92
JACKSONVILLE 2E                    	IL	-2.92
LA HARPE                           	IL	-11.02
MARENGO                            	IL	-13
MINONK                             	IL	-7.96
OTTAWA 5SW                         	IL	-9.04
PERRY 6 NW                         	IL	-7.96
RUSHVILLE 4NE                      	IL	-9.04
WHITE HALL 1 E                     	IL	-4
HUNTINGTON                         	IN	-5.08
RENSSELAER                         	IN	1.04
ALBIA 3 NNE                        	IA	-9.04
ALGONA 3 W                         	IA	-14.08
BELLE PLAINE                       	IA	-16.06
CHARLES CITY                       	IA	-18.94
FAIRFIELD                          	IA	-9.94
FAYETTE                            	IA	-16.06
FOREST CITY 2 NNE                  	IA	-14.98
IOWA FALLS                         	IA	-14.08
LOGAN                              	IA	-13
MT AYR                             	IA	-14.08
MT PLEASANT 1 SSW                  	IA	-13
NEW HAMPTON                        	IA	-16.06
ROCK RAPIDS                        	IA	-13
ROCKWELL CITY                      	IA	-11.92
STORM LAKE 2 E                     	IA	-13
TOLEDO 3N                          	IA	-14.08
WASHINGTON                         	IA	-9.94
ASHLAND                            	KS	-7.96
LAWRENCE                           	KS	-4
ALMA                               	MI	-14.08
COLDWATER ST SCHOOL                	MI	-9.04
EAST TAWAS                         	MI	-18.94
SOUTH HAVEN                        	MI	-4
STAMBAUGH 2SSE                     	MI	-32.98
ALBERT LEA 3 SE                    	MN	-14.98
GRAND MEADOW                       	MN	-16.96
ITASCA UNIV OF MINN                	MN	-27.04
LEECH LAKE                         	MN	-27.04
MORA                               	MN	-23.08
PIPESTONE                          	MN	-16.96
SANDY LAKE DAM LIBBY               	MN	-27.04
WINNEBAGO                          	MN	-16.06
ZUMBROTA                           	MN	-25.06
BRUNSWICK                          	MO	-7.96
MOBERLY                            	MO	-7.06
SPICKARD 7 W                       	MO	-9.94
STEFFENVILLE                       	MO	-9.04
SWEET SPRINGS                      	MO	-5.08
WARRENTON 1 N                      	MO	-2.92
AUBURN 5 ESE                       	NE	-9.94
PAWNEE CITY                        	NE	-7.96
SYRACUSE                           	NE	-7.06
TECUMSEH 1S                        	NE	-9.04
TEKAMAH                            	NE	-11.92
WAKEFIELD                          	NE	-16.96
ACADEMY 2NE                        	SD	-16.96
FORESTBURG 4 NNE                   	SD	-14.98
HOWARD                             	SD	-18.04
MENNO                              	SD	-16.96
BOYS RANCH                         	TX	3.02
PLAINVIEW                          	TX	5
DARLINGTON                         	WI	-14.98
LANCASTER 4 WSW                    	WI	-11.92
MARSHFIELD EXP FARM                	WI	-20.02
MEDFORD                            	WI	-27.04
MILWAUKEE MT MARY CLG              	WI	-4
MINOCQUA                           	WI	-29.02
NEW LONDON                         	WI	-16.96
OSHKOSH                            	WI	-14.08
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN                   	WI	-16.06
SPOONER AG RES STN                 	WI	-27.94
STANLEY                            	WI	-27.04
WATERTOWN                          	WI	-9.94
POWELL FLD STN                     	WY	-9.04

GISS claims that Earth has warmed 0.7 degrees since 1880, but their data is diverging from RSS satellite temps at a rate of 1.0C per century.

The noise is larger than the signal, which means the entire data set is worthless.

During February, most of the Northern Hemisphere was very cold. But experts correctly pointed out that the climate was located in Sochi . During January it was located in Australia.

ch_tlt_2014_02_anom_v03_3.png (730×450)

The dirty little secret of Arctic sea ice, is that it is controlled by winter winds – not temperature. Over the last few years, the older thicker ice has pushed into the Beaufort Sea where it survives the winter and slows summer melt. Thus the Arctic continues to “recover.”

From 1988 to about 2009, the ice was moving the other direction into the North Atlantic. That is what caused the decline in Arctic Sea ice.

Our communist news networks have created an old fashioned Soviet style consensus, by refusing to discuss any other points of view.

Neither CBS nor ABC have included a skeptical scientists in their news shows within the past 1,300 days, but both networks included alarmists within the past 160 days — CBS as recently as 22 days ago. When the networks did include other viewpoints, the experts were dismissed as “out of the scientific mainstream” or backed by “oil and coal companies.”

The networks were able to promote the myth that there is a scientific consensus for man-made, catastrophic climate change by including climate alarmists much more often than skeptical scientists and by challenging the credentials of the skeptics that they did include.

COLD SHOULDER: ABC, CBS Exclude Scientists Critical of Global Warming for More Than 1,300 Days | CNS News

Like the Soviet press agency Pravda, they probably believe they are doing a good thing by destroying the foundations of our society.

h/t to Dave G

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In the Arctic, winter’s might doesn’t have much bite

Temperatures at the North Pole are -25C.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Those temperatures are colder than Minnesota has been this winter – not exactly what most people would call warm. The reason the temperatures have not been as cold as last winter, is because the cold air has been spread thinner over a larger geographic area.

Their claim that ice extent is low, is the usual nonsense. It is right at one standard deviation, i.e. normal.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

But the real story is that the wind has been pushing the ice into the western Arctic, where it is getting very thick. This also causes a small, nearly meaningless reduction in Barents Sea ice extent.

Unless the Arctic experiences extreme wind conditions like during the summer of 2007, alarmists are facing another very bad summer this year.

coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/webdata/cwops/webdata/statistic/dat/g2013_2014_ice.dat

That is one scary looking hockey stick.