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Bill is pushing hard to wreck our freedom in the US, as part of his brilliant attempt to end the interglacial.

h/t to Marc Morano

• Antarctic sea ice now covers 19,454,000 km². This is the most sea ice ever measured at either pole, and is about the size of  the US and Europe combined, or 335,000 Manhattans.
• The ice extends more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Antarctica. Emperor Penguins have to walk across the ice to get to the sea.
• Most of the ice is located between 60 and 70S, which means that it reflects huge amounts of sunshine back into space, dramatically cooling the Earth.
• The sun is currently about 30 degrees above the horizon at the ice edge.
• The National Snow And Ice Data Center in Colorado has still failed to mention this on their web site. They continue to discuss the record Arctic minimum, and until recently were featuring an article about penguins being threatened by declining Antarctic sea ice, even though Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing throughout the satellite record.

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

Antarctica has broken the record for the greatest sea ice extent ever measured at either pole.

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/SH_seaice_extent_nrt.csv

ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/SH_seaice_extent_final.csv

NSIDC seems disinterested in their own data, choosing instead to write stories about Penguins being threatened by declining Antarctic sea ice.

If current trends continue, the Earth will be completely covered with ice much faster than the climate models predicted.

h/t to sunshine hours

Summer forecast 2009 – Met Office

Met Office climate forecasts are extremely useful. Whatever they say, assume the opposite.

Summer 2009 round-up – Met Office

03 Sep 1923 – THAWING IN ARCTIC. DISCOVERY OF ISLAND. PREVIOUS…

In 1923 it was warmer in Svalbard than it is now.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/

Romm says that current temperatures in Svalbard are the highest in 1,800 years, so we can deduce that 1923 was more than 1,800 years ago.

High Arctic Warmest In 1,800 Years: ‘The Medieval Warm Period Was Not As Uniformly Warm As We Once Thought’ | ThinkProgress

h/t to Marc Morano

Wildfires are getting longer, fiercer, and more costly to contain. Wildfires have burned an average of 7 million U.S. acres every year since 2000. That’s equal to burning all of Yellowstone National Park three times over each year. But from 1960 to 1999, wildfires consumed half that amount – an average 3.5 million acres a year. U.S. wildfire seasons now last an average 76 days longer than in the 1970s and 1980s. Before 1986, a wildfire was contained on average in less than eight days. Since then, the average wildfire has burned for 37 days.

Face the Facts USA: Wildfires are burning longer – San Jose Mercury News

The five largest fires in US history all occurred more than a century ago.

1. 1871 Peshtigo Fire – 3.8 million acres
2. 1825 Maine Fire – 3 million acres
3. 1898 South Carolina – 3 million acres
4. 1910 Idaho – 3 million acres
5. 1881 Michigan – 2.5 million acres

National Interagency Fire Center

By cherry picking the ice age scare of the 1960s and 1970s to compare against, there is no limit to how much climate BS can be generated.

h/t to Marc Morano

Clint Dempsey scores the winning goal for Spurs. The last time Spurs won at the trashbin was before Hansen drowned Manhattan.

The Earth’s changing climate is costing the global economy $1.2 trillion a year and killing 1,000 children a day, according to a new study—and the U.N. warns the summer’s record heat and drought could trigger a catastrophe.

Climate Change Kills 400,000 a Year, New Report Reveals – The Daily Beast

I’m not exactly sure how massively upwards adjusted US temperatures kill children in Africa, but the UN has it figured out.

He is even worse this week than he was last week.