Real Climate Science

Two years ago, Joe Romm declared the official start to the permanent drought.

Dust Storm Marks Beginning of Southwest’s “Permanent Drought” | The Energy Collective

And now the permanent drought is over.

 

United States Drought Monitor > Data Archive > Tables

According to the Danish Meteorological Institute graphs, this past summer was the coldest on record north of 80N, and was below normal temperature every day from June through August

University of Colorado ice maps also show that there was very little melt. The animation below flashes between week 25 and week 39, with the week number shown in the lower left corner. You can see that there was almost no loss of multi-year ice this summer.

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The world’s leading experts say that the Arctic will be ice-free this year, or sooner.

the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013

– John Kerry, US Secretary of State

John Kerry: We Can’t Ignore the Security Threat from Climate Change

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013?

James Hansen : ‘This is the last chance’

6/23/2008

“We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes,” Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. “The Arctic is the first tipping point and it’s occurring exactly the way we said it would.”

Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer.

NASA warming scientist: ‘This is the last chance’ – USATODAY.com

June 26, 2013

The alarming loss of sea ice which has grown worse each summer over the past several decades, has taken a sharp turn for the worse: this year the loss is right in the middle, the most resilient part of the ice cover. This could lead to a completely ice-free Arctic Ocean by September.

Unprecedented hole is growing in Arctic sea ice – Fairfax Climate Watch

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

 

New October ice is green.

Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the nation’s surveillance activities went “too far” in some cases, and has promised that will not happen again.

Kerry: U.S. Surveillance Went “Too Far”

Is there some reason why anyone would still be stupid enough to believe anything coming out of the Obama White House?

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The amount of five year old ice in the Arctic has more than doubled over the past two years, as seen in the animation below.

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The website launched on a Tuesday. Publicly, the government said there were 4.7 million unique visits in the first 24 hours. But at a meeting Wednesday morning, the war room notes say “six enrollments have occurred so far.”

Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show – CBS News

The tide gauge at Atlantic City, New Jersey shows almost twice the rate of sea level rise as satellite measurements.

Satellites show 2.8 mm/year, below the claimed global average.

Tide gauges show 5.2 mm/year, because fat people in the governor’s mansion are causing the state to sink.

Obama Approval Index History – Rasmussen Reports™

Obama got a big bump in the polls when he shut down the government and wrecked investor confidence, in a successful effort to make sure that the Obamacare launch was not delayed.

6 OBAMACARE ENROLLEES ON FIRST DAY

Britain was successfully destroyed by immigration reform, and now the plan is to do the same to the US.

Harsh truths about the decline of Britain – Telegraph