Teenage Mentality In The White House

One of the big problems facing many teenagers is their belief that they can do really important things, even if they lack the discipline to do their homework.

We basically have a teenager in the White House. He thinks he controls the planet and the seas, but he can’t even control his own government spending, unemployment, or his incessant need to lie about everything.

I am all for putting an adult in the White House, rather than a neurotic teenager who was rejected by his father.

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JAXA Minimum

I made a few bets about a JAXA record minimum. I will pay them – under protest – because the passive microwave measurements are missing a lot of ice this summer.

Their maps don’t show any real change for almost a week, yet the graphs continue to show a sharp decline. It all looks like male bovine excrement to me.

The most annoying bet I ever lost was when Joe Paterno took an intentional safety in the last two minutes of the 1977 Fiesta Bowl, and cost me the spread I had given against my alma mater ASU.

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Old Jedi Mind Trick

NIC charts are produced through the analyses of available in situ, remote sensing, and model data sources. They are generated primarily for mission planning and safety of navigation. NIC charts generally show more ice than do passive microwave derived sea ice concentrations, particularly in the summer when passive microwave algorithms tend to underestimate ice concentration. The record of sea ice concentration from the NIC series is believed to be more accurate than that from passive microwave sensors, especially from the mid-1990s on (see references at the end of this documentation), but it lacks the consistency of some passive microwave time series.

National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format

The only rational way to interpret this paragraph is that passive microwave measurements are consistently less accurate. Read this again

The record of sea ice concentration from the NIC series is believed to be more accurate than that from passive microwave sensors

You can’t be more accurate and less consistent. It makes no sense mathematically. If your error bars are smaller, then you are -by definition – more consistent.

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Anticipation Is Building For The Greenland Labor Day Golf Classic

The ground crews have been working day and night to hold back the meltdown floods at -19C

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Record Minimum? Not

There has been more ice in 2012 than 2007 since February.

Ice Extent Archives

NIC charts are produced through the analyses of available in situ, remote sensing, and model data sources. They are generated primarily for mission planning and safety of navigation. NIC charts generally show more ice than do passive microwave derived sea ice concentrations, particularly in the summer when passive microwave algorithms tend to underestimate ice concentration. The record of sea ice concentration from the NIC series is believed to be more accurate than that from passive microwave sensors, especially from the mid-1990s on (see references at the end of this documentation), but it lacks the consistency of some passive microwave time series.

National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format

h/t to snafu

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Northwest Passage – Still Blocked With Ice

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Arctic Ice Still 12% Above The 2007 Minimum

Almost no change since yesterday’s 1% increase.

NIC charts are produced through the analyses of available in situ, remote sensing, and model data sources. They are generated primarily for mission planning and safety of navigation. NIC charts generally show more ice than do passive microwave derived sea ice concentrations, particularly in the summer when passive microwave algorithms tend to underestimate ice concentration. The record of sea ice concentration from the NIC series is believed to be more accurate than that from passive microwave sensors, especially from the mid-1990s on (see references at the end of this documentation), but it lacks the consistency of some passive microwave time series.

National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format

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My High And Low Mileage Vehicles

This is what I am driving these days.  The kids have all moved out and I don’t have to shuttle anyone around now.

1000 miles per month at infinity miles per gallon

200 miles per month at 15 miles per gallon

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1975 : Global Cooling Causes Extremes In Temperature And Precipitation, And Ruins Crop Yields

 

1975 – Science News

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NASA’s Primary Mission Under Barack Obama – “Make Muslims Feel Good About Themselves”

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How did Obama do?

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