The Huffington Post North Pole swimming pool has been closed, but the ice skating season is now in full swing.
Caution : It is all thin, rotten, decayed ice.
The Huffington Post North Pole swimming pool has been closed, but the ice skating season is now in full swing.
Caution : It is all thin, rotten, decayed ice.
1/12° Arctic Cap Nowcast/Forecast System (ACFNS) Archive
By mid-August, almost all the melt is from underneath. But there is very little warm water this year, except for in the Chukchi Sea.
What alarmists didn’t want to think about was that last year’s August storm pulled a lot of heat out of the water, and this year is payback time for their gloating last year.
The fake Benghazi scandal may be the biggest cover up in history.
Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.
CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency’s Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.
Read: Analysis: CIA role in Benghazi underreported
Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency’s missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency’s workings.
The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.
It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.
Yesterday morning they were 1610 km away from Pond Inlet, and now they are 1650 km away from Pond Inlet.
The United States will temporarily shut down its embassies and consulates around the world Sunday — including those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt — as a precautionary measure over terror-related concerns, State Department officials said.
US to temporarily shut down embassies around the world Sunday amid security concerns | Fox News
It has been just over five years since Obama announced that he had healed the planet and made the world love us.
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Green shows 2013 ice not present in 2006. Red shows the opposite.
The last week in July is normally the largest melt week of the year, but there has been very little ice loss over the past week.
Extreme weather being driven by climate change is the biggest threat to British farming and its ability to feed the nation’s growing population, according to Peter Kendall, president of the National Farmers’ Union.
His comments, in an interview with the Guardian, come after a week of intense weather extremes. Last Monday, west London experienced the hottest day for seven years, while on Tuesday the drought in many parts of the country came to an end with intense thunderstorms that brought almost a month of rain in a day to parts of Worcestershire. Torrential downpours also put a dampener on the first weekend of the school summer holidays, with flash-flooding in parts of the south-east and the Midlands.
NFU claims extreme weather poses biggest threat to British farming | Environment | The Guardian
An acid attack victim in Karachi, Pakistan. A new study suggests that such violence increases with abnormal temperatures.
According to Hansen, World War I occurred during the coldest years ever. That would be 37,000,000 non-global warming related deaths. The frozen siege of Stalingrad in WWII was clearly a global warming related event too.
National Geographic was better when they stuck with pictures of perky topless island women.