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arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2013/181)

The ice shows very little indication of melt, and is being packed up against the shore by persistent northwest winds.

The Beaufort Sea was well below normal again today.

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Temperatures north of 80N continue to be the coldest on record for the date.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Syrian rebels beheads bishop François Murad

This video shows Syrian rebels slaughtering three people in the countryside of Edlib, including the Metropolitan “François Murad”, who was patron of Sumaan al-Amoudi Monastery, under the charge of dealing with the government and the Syrian Army;the video shows people who speak Arabic with a broken accent, saying that through this act, they are applying the law of God.

LiveLeak.com – Syrian rebels beheads bishop François Murad

h/t to Dave G

On Friday, Accuweather was predicting all-time record heat for everywhere from Death Valley to Denver. As far as I can tell, they are batting 0.000

Here in the Front Range of Colorado, we have had about average temperatures this weekend – with lots of rain.

The Greenland ice sheet averages about one metre of snowfall per year.

Last year, NASA got hysterical over a 150 year event – where a few snowflakes on the surface got rounded edges from 2C temperatures for a couple of hours.

Then these geniuses try to claim that the ice sheet is losing mass.

Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year…

Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self protective strategies.

Full Study available at the National Academy of Sciences

White House Study Finds Guns Save Lives: “Consistently Lower Injury Rates Among Gun Using Crime Victims”

h/t to Dave G

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Greenland temperatures normally peak during the first two weeks in July.

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the 1930s had (by far) the worst heatwaves in US history.

Heat waves occurred with high frequency in the 1930s, and these remain the most severe heat waves in the U.S. historical record  (see Figure 1)

www.epa.gov/climate/climatechange/pdfs/print_heat-waves.pdf

Infrared imagery – red is ice, white is clouds

arctic.io – Arctic Terra 367 – (2013/180)

Over the last two days, ice drift has completely blocked the eastern end of the Beaufort Sea with 100% concentration ice – right up to the shoreline.

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2013/180)