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Before NOAA data tampering, January-August 2013 has been the twelfth coldest in the US since 1930.

NOAA is still obsessed with 2012, despite the fact that it was an outlier and not indicative of anything to do with climate.

Arctic ice melt has dropped to almost zero. Comparing current ice vs. mid-September 2012, there is more than 100% more ice than at last year’s minimum. A rapid freeze between now and mid-September could make this number much larger.

The map below compares current ice (green and yellow) vs. mid-September 2012 (red and yellow)

Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor

In their ongoing efforts at plausibly deniable polar ice propaganda, NSIDC describes this spectacular doubling as “won’t match last year’s melt”

Leading experts say that all of the ice is going to melt in the next few hours.

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

FIRST ON KHQ.COM: Both Suspects In Custody In Beating Death Of S – Spokane, North Idaho News & Weather KHQ.com

Obama believes that troubled black teenagers should carry guns, apparently so that they don’t hurt their hands beating senior citizens and neighborhood watch people.

I just ask people to consider if Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk?

– Barack Obama  July 19, 2013

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’71 Valley Quake a Brush With Catastrophe

SAN FERNANDO — It was not only the biggest quake in San Fernando Valley history at the time, but it was the first strong one in the Valley since 1893.

The San Fernando quake, in fact, could have been a catastrophe instead of just a costly disaster. That conclusion arises from its most striking episode: the near-collapse of the lower dam at the Van Norman reservoir.

The 1,100-foot dam held 3.6 billion gallons of water on the morning of Feb. 9, 1971, but it was only half full; the water level was 36 feet below the lip.

The top 30 feet of the edifice crumbled, leaving the water only six feet from the top and fresh chunks of earth falling off with each aftershock.

Ellensburg Daily Record – Google News Archive Search

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UN’s Carla Del Ponte says there is evidence rebels ‘may have used sarin’ in Syria – Middle East – World – The Independent

Only problem is that peak winds are actually closer to 5MPH.

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