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Except for a tiny circle around the pole, NSIDC is showing that the Arctic is indeed ice-free in 2013.

 

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“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick”

Obama – June 3, 2008

About 90-120 years from now, Obama will sit his daughters down on his knee and explain to them that there were no doctors in America before 2008.

Obama wants Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats | New York Post

Putin is shaking in his boots

h/t to Dave G

Letters to the editor, Oct. 24, 2013 – The Santa Fe New Mexican: Letters To Editor

According to CRU, temperatures around Sydney have been declining for the past decade, and are not as warm as they were a century ago.

Long before the hockey stick, Australia was alternating between drought and flood.

13 Oct 1868 – THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.

Speaking to Newsnight, he suggested that politicians were only interested in “serving the needs of corporations” and that an administrative system based on the “massive redistribution of wealth” should replace the status quo.

BBC News – Russell Brand: ‘I’ve never voted, never will’

The NOAA storm naming department has blown away their previous record, and successfully named six storms for every one hurricane in 2013.

Weather Street: 2013 Atlantic Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

Now NOAA can issue a press release that it was an “unusually active hurricane season”  and insurance companies can raise their rates – just as they forecast a few weeks ago.

NOAA UPDATE: ‘Very Active’ Hurricane Season Possible – weather.com

The animation below shows the changes from JAXA V1 to V2. Note how the 1980s minimum hardly changed at all, but more recent minimums have been increasingly reduced over time, particularly the last four years where they have made large reductions in ice extent. Hansen must be proud.

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