Real Climate Science

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Normally the past two weeks produce the rapidest melt of the year. This year there has been almost no loss of ice area since July 24.

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

This year “will without a doubt” rank in the top five lowest levels of ice extent ever recorded in the satellite era, and there is a good possibility that 2013 could rank second in terms of recorded ice lows, said Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow & Ice Data Center.

“It’s kind of remarkable that it’s as low as it is [this year], given that the weather conditions were not terribly optimal for ice loss,” Meier said.

http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2013/08/05/stories/1059985599

Earth to Walt. Arctic ice extent is the highest in the last nine years. What is remarkable is how the thin rotten decayed ice made such a spectacular rebound this summer.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

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h/t to Marc Morano

Last winter they blamed all the cold and snow on missing Arctic ice. With Arctic ice extent now close to the highest in a decade, what lies will the experts fabricate for the cold weather in the coming winter?

Scientists link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss | Environment | theguardian.com

Contrary to the mindless hysteria being funded and promoted by the White House, satellite data at Miami Beach shows almost no change in sea level this century.

The US Drought Monitor shows northeastern Arizona in extreme to exceptional drought.

Regional Drought Monitor: West

PMDI correctly shows that northeastern Arizona has no drought.

Flagstaff just tied the record for the wettest July with almost eight inches of rain, and the geniuses at the US Drought Monitor say that they are having a severe drought.

Flagstaff ties record set in 1919 for wettest July

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There have been no hurricanes in the Atlantic yet this year.

Weather Street: 2013 Atlantic Hurricanes and Tropical Storms

By this date in 1886, the US had already been hit by four hurricanes – with two major hurricanes on the way.

1886 Atlantic hurricane season – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It has been eight years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest such period since the Civil War. Obama has had the fewest hurricanes of any president.

Chronological List of All Hurricanes

There are no fires burning in the southwestern US, and cumulative burn acreage is about half of normal for this date.

National Interagency Fire Center

Obama says that global warming is making fires much worse than they used to be.

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