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Twitter / billmckibben: Thieves steal 20k gallons of …

1. He is a completely incompetent community organizer with no credentials to be commander in chief of the US military
2. You can’t criticize him, because he is black and that would make you a racist

James Woods (RealJamesWoods) on Twitter

h/t to Dave G

 the head of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet has declared the greatest threat to long-term peace in the region is climate change.

Fallout from the shifting global temperature “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen … that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about,” Navy Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III told the Boston Globe’s Bryan Bender on Friday.

Top U.S. Admiral: Climate Change Biggest Threat

Barbara Boxer agrees

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The White House announces that everything they said last week no longer is valid, and that they actually don’t care what Congress or the American people think – or if Obama looks like an incoherent lunatic.

John Kerry gives Syria week to hand over chemical weapons or face attack | World news | theguardian.com

Paul Beckwith is a Ph.D. student with the laboratory for paleoclimatology and climatology, department of geography, University of Ottawa.

By Paul Beckwith

On March 23, 2013, I made the following prediction:

“For the record—I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean.

The cracks in the sea ice that I reported in my Sierra blog and elsewhere have spread. Worse news is at this very moment the entire sea ice sheet (or about 99 percent of it) covering the Arctic Ocean is on the move (clockwise), and the thin, weakened icecap has literally begun to tear apart.

This is abrupt climate change in real-time.

Humans have benefited greatly from a stable climate for the last 11,000 years (roughly 400 human generations). Not anymore. We now face an angry climate — one that we have poked in the eye with our fossil fuel stick — and have to deal with the consequences.

We must set aside our differences and prepare for what we can no longer avoid: massive disruption to our civilization.”

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

Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph

When it comes to climate science reporting, the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph are only reliable in the sense that you can rely on them to usually get the science wrong. This weekend’s Arctic sea ice articles from David Rose of the Mail and Hayley Dixon at the Telegraph unfortunately fit that pattern.

Both articles claimed that Arctic sea ice extent grew 60 percent in August 2013 as compared to August 2012. While this factoid is technically true, it’s also largely irrelevant. For one thing, the annual Arctic sea ice minimum occurs in September – we’re not there yet.

Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | theguardian.com

It was 60% in August. Now it is up to 61%. Green shows ice present in 2013 which wasn’t present in 2012. Red shows the opposite.

Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor

Then Nutter claims that scientists predicted the massive recovery all along.

that’s not the least bit surprising.

Around 80% of the ~100 scientists at the Bjerknes [Arctic climate science] conference thought that there would be MORE Arctic sea-ice in 2013, compared to 2012

Kook and Nuttercelli are now in the first stages of their never was a global warming consensus  history rewrite.

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

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

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

In the 1850s, the US averaged 2 hurricanes per year. This has steadily declined and now the US averages 1.5 hurricane strikes per year. The busiest year was 1886, with seven hurricanes making landfall in the US.

HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes

Over the last five hurricane seasons, the US has had a total of three hurricane strikes – Irene, Issac and Sandy. This few hurricanes has happened only twice before – in 1984 and 1866.

HURDAT Re-analysis Chronological List of All Hurricanes

The season isn’t over yet – and this could change.