Real Climate Science

A couple of years ago Walt Meier lectured me that Antarctic sea ice doesn’t matter – because the positive anomalies only occurred during the winter when there is no sun.

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

One of the biggest lies of the global warming scam is that Arctic sea ice has declined because warming Arctic temperatures are melting it.

This is utter nonsense. Summers in the Arctic have been getting cooler. The warming which occurred from the mid-1970s until a few years ago occurred during the winter, and the vast majority of the ice loss also occurred during the winter.

The NSIDC graphic below shows how almost all of the five+ year old ice was pushed out into the North Atlantic during the winters from 1988 to 1996. This coincided with the most positive ENSO period on record.

2007_seaiceminimum/images/20070822_oldice.gif

The disaster for alarmists is that the winds have reversed and are pushing the ice towards the Pacific side, which is driving the massive recovery in the amount of Arctic sea ice – up 60% from last summer.

Unless something changes with the winds, Arctic sea ice will continue to grow during the next few years.

Community disorganizer can’t make up his mind for the past 1,800 days.

And while Arctic ice has declined precipitously over the past thirty years of the satellite record, average Antarctic sea ice extent has stayed the same or even grown slightly.

Sea ice down under: Antarctic ice and climate | Icelights: Your Burning Questions About Ice & Climate

NSIDC might want to review their second grade math skills. Global sea ice area has been above the 30 year mean most of the year, and is averaging above the 30 year mean. Antarctic ice area has grown by almost 10,000 Manhattans over the last 30 years.

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

They just got done telling us that 17 years of no global warming is much too short to draw any conclusions, and now they are back to drawing conclusions based on one year in one location.

Andrew Freedman (afreedma) on Twitter

17 years of no warming globally is too short to draw any conclusions, but one warm year in one location is proof of global warming.

Both locals and experts blame this year’s scourge on climate change; the past year has been unusually warm, allowing a high number of hornets to survive the winter.

The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets | World news | theguardian.com

Any time people die, progressives find a cause for celebration.

The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets | World news | theguardian.com

A reader has clearly enumerated the unprecedented successes of the Obama White House

October 4, 2013 at 11:24 am

Car chases are now national emergencies which have feds hiding under their desks.