The rules for discussing sea ice are very dynamic
The brutal Arctic blast has seen temperatures plummet to -13C (9F) amid what could be the coldest March for almost three decades.
Pensioner groups warned the death rate among Britain’s elderly has already soared this winter with fears it could hit 30,000 – 6,000 more than last year
Deaths up by 30,000 in big freeze | UK | News | Daily Express
h/t to Tom Nelson
Colorado democrats have happily embraced Chicago and New York mob politics, because they are too stupid to understand that they are allowing Colorado to be used as a pawn by Obama and Bloomberg thugs.
One Colorado sheriff speaks out :
CO Sheriff Speaks Out Against Democrats Threats, For Speaking Against Gun Control
CO Sheriff Speaks Out Against Democrats Threats, For Speaking Against Gun Control | XRepublic
h/t to Kirk Meyers
Marcott made a new hockey stick, by putting a low pass filter on a grossly inadequate data set, and then switched measurement systems in mid-stream and put a high pass filter on another grossly inadequate data set.
He did so many things wrong, that he would probably get tossed out of any engineering school for fraud.
But he did one thing right – produced utter garbage which backed the scientific and political orthodoxy.
The first three months of 2012 were the mildest on record in the US (slightly warmer than 1921) and so far in 2013 those same months have been among the coldest on record.
There has been no trend in January-March temperatures in the US over the last 90 years.
The 2013 numbers will come up some as the month progresses, but as it stands now the first three months of 2013 are ranked among the ten coldest.
If you shoot dozens of soldiers as they eat lunch, while screaming praise to Allah and death to America, that is called workplace violence.
If you attack an American embassy with rocket launchers and kill the ambassador, that is called a spontaneous YouTube protest.
If you are a war veteran, have a Ron Paul bumper sticker, or dare to read the US Constitution out loud, you are a potential terrorist.
NJ MOTHER PRESSURED TO TURN OVER HER GUNS, CHARGED WITH ‘TERRORISTIC THREATS’ AFTER READING THE CONSTITUTION AT TAX DISPUTE ASSEMBLY
h/t to Dave G
PIOMAS is a favorite tool of alarmists – and is complete garbage.
The graph below shows PIOMAS average ice thickness, calculated by dividing their modeled ice volume by Cryosphere Today ice area.
There is a fatal error with this data. Note how the ice used to gain more than a metre in thickness over the winter, but now it gains less than half that much.
It should be the other way around. With less thick ice cover now, the warmer water below is not as well insulated from the cold air above. This means that average ice thickness should increase more now during a winter than it did 30 years ago. Thick ice inhibits new ice formation, and thin ice facilitates it.
Temperatures have been running -35C in the Arctic this winter, and PIOMAS claims that less than half a metre of new ice has formed. That is just plain stupid. At those temperatures, half a metre of new ice would form in less than two weeks.
The US Navy shows that all of the ice in the Arctic Basin is thicker than PIOMAS average ice thickness, most of it much thicker.
Bloomberg wants to get New York off fossil fuels, like they were in late October and much of November.
