Thanks to latent heat released by new ice formation, the Arctic has ended a 110 day long streak of below normal temperatures.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
This cold has contributed to a record increase in sea ice over last year.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
It is August 24, and there have been no Atlantic hurricanes yet. But during the low-CO2 year of 1938, the first hurricane formed on January 3.
On January 1, a weak extratropical cyclone formed about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the island of São Miguel in the Azores. Moving eastward initially, it later began a turn to the south on January 3. On that day, the cyclone transitioned into a warm-core system, a tropical storm with winds of 60 miles per hour (97 km/h). Henceforth, it gradually curved to the southwest and on January 4 became a hurricane, equal to Category 1 on the modern Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It peaked at 80 mph (130 km/h) that same day but weakened into a tropical storm on January 5. Turning to the south-southwest, it dissipated on January 6 while centered well to the east of the Lesser Antilles. The cyclone became the first documented Atlantic tropical cyclone to attain hurricane intensity in the month of January and is one of just four Atlantic storms known to have occurred in that month, the others being Hurricane Alice in 1955, a subtropical cyclone in 1978, and Tropical Storm Zeta in January 2006.[1]
1938 Atlantic hurricane season – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fast forward 25 years, and Trenberth still sees changes in ocean temperature as key to understanding the ups and downs of global climate. That includes the current plateau in global temperature.
Trenberth says, in fact, the planet has continued to warm during this time — but the heat has been flowing into the oceans, which have a vast capacity to absorb it.
Kevin Trenberth: Ocean will eat global warming for next 20 years | JunkScience.com
In other words, he will be retired in 25 years and won’t need to make up idiotic excuses any more.
At one time, even government experts understood that fire is essential to pine forests.
Fire is very much a part of the life cycle of the lodgepole pine forest …. said John Varley chief scientists of Yellowstone National Park.
The Spokesman-Review – Google News Archive Search
No doubt it was kindler, gentler and cooler fire.
CNN is reporting on TV that “many firefighters say fires burn hotter than they used to.”
Apparently the heat of combustion of wood has changed, most likely accompanied by the a change in the weight of ducks.
BEDEMIR: What makes you think she is a witch?
VILLAGER #3: Well, she turned me into a newt.
BEDEMIR: A newt?
VILLAGER #3: I got better.
VILLAGER #2: Burn her anyway!
CROWD: Burn! Burn her!
BEDEMIR: Quiet, quiet. Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
CROWD: Are there? What are they?
BEDEMIR: Tell me, what do you do with witches?
VILLAGER #2: Burn!
CROWD: Burn, burn them up!
BEDEMIR: And what do you burn apart from witches?
VILLAGER #1: More witches!
VILLAGER #2: Wood!
BEDEMIR: So, why do witches burn?
[pause]
VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood...?
BEDEMIR: Good!
CROWD: Oh yeah, yeah...
BEDEMIR: So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
VILLAGER #1: Build a bridge out of her.
BEDEMIR: Aah, but can you not also build bridges out of stone?
VILLAGER #2: Oh, yeah.
BEDEMIR: Does wood sink in water?
VILLAGER #1: No, no.
VILLAGER #2: It floats! It floats!
VILLAGER #1: Throw her into the pond!
CROWD: The pond!
BEDEMIR: What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1: Bread!
VILLAGER #2: Apples!
VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1: Cider!
VILLAGER #2: Great gravy!
VILLAGER #1: Cherries!
VILLAGER #2: Mud!
VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches!
VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead!
ARTHUR: A duck.
CROWD: Oooh.
BEDEMIR: Exactly! So, logically...,
VILLAGER #1: If... she.. weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood.
BEDEMIR: And therefore--?
VILLAGER #1: A witch!
Soviet Communists, like the ones in the White House and the press, can not survive in an environment where ideas are discussed openly. That is why Obama/CNN/etc. are blocking any legitimate discussion about climate, black against white racism, the economy, Benghazi, the NSA, The Bill of Rights, and a host of other topics.
One month ago, NSIDC announced this :
Back when the sea was thick and lasted for years, cyclones tended to spread the ice out and actually increase its extent, said Julienne Stroeve of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Now, when ice gets spread out, it simply breaks up and disappears.
“As our ice cover has thinned, some of our old rules are changing,” said Stroeve.
Summer cyclone chewing up Canada’s Arctic sea ice | CTV News
Gaia has officially announced that she is angry about junk science. The graph below shows the daily change in Arctic ice area. The end of July storm caused a significant increase in ice area, the exact opposite of what NSIDC claimed.
Also note that the melt season is all but done.
Climate change deniers live in ignorant bliss as seas keep rising
The tide gauge at LA shows no change in sea level for the past two or three decades.
Data and Station Information for SANTA MONICA (MUNICIPAL PIER)
Green shows ice present in 2013 which was not present in 2012. Red shows the opposite.
Watch: How Climate Change Is Melting the Ski Industry | Mother Jones
Four of the five snowiest winters on record have occurred since 2008.
