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The Guardian, Friday 29 April 2005

The world is getting warmer – and US scientists now know precisely how much warmer. They calculated the radiation from the sun, the heat reflected back into space, and the rising temperature of the seas and say the extra warmth is equivalent to a 1 watt lightbulb shining constantly over an area of 1 sq metre everywhere on the planet.

That would raise average temperatures by 0.6C before the end of the century, they report in Science today. Warming at that level, maintained over 10,000 years, would melt enough ice to raise sea levels by a kilometre.

“This energy imbalance is the smoking gun that we have been looking for,” said James Hansen, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “It shows that our estimates of the human-made and natural climate forcing agents are about right, and they are driving the Earth to a warmer climate.”

Global warming rate discovered | Environment | The Guardian

Ninety percent of the US will be underwater, like Manhattan’s West Side Highway has been since 2008.

Not only did Obama accurately promise to make energy prices skyrocket, but he also promised to slow sea level rise.

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Sea level rise did indeed slow, right after the election.

ftp://ftp.aviso.oceanobs.com/pub/oceano/AVISO/indicators/msl/MSL_Serie_MERGED_Global_IB_RWT_NoGIA_NoAdjust.txt

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – 20 MARCH 2000

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

Professor Jarich Oosten, an anthropologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, says that even if we no longer see snow, it will remain culturally important.

“We don’t really have wolves in Europe any more, but they are still an important part of our culture and everyone knows what they look like,” he said.

David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

The National Ice Center says that Arctic ice extent is higher than the 2007 minimum.

The National Snow And Ice Data Center says that the National Ice Center maps are (by far) the most accurate in late summer.

So what do alarmists do? They ignore the only measurement which is accurate, and declare the end of the world based on the plurality of inaccurate measurments.

In 2009, the prophet Hansen forecast that the world would be destroyed in 2012 – if the prophet Obama failed to appease the CO2 gods.

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added

– James Hansen 2009

President Obama ‘has four years to save Earth’ | Environment | The Observer

The prophet Obama did indeed make promises

President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise…is to help you and your family.

– Mitt Romney 2012

Hansen joins a long list of “end of the world” nutcases.

Portland Guardian  –  11 April 1867

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JAXA graphs show a sharp drop over the last four days, but their maps don’t. See if you can figure out which which date is August 26 and which date is August 30.

The edge on the Svalbard side contracted slightly, and the edge on the Alaska side expanded slightly.

Temperatures are -6C, and the ice is melting extraordinarily fast.

IMB Buoy Recent Data

According to USHCN data, daily maximum temperatures during the summer of 1936  averaged more than seven degrees hotter than the summer of 2012.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KSNL/

NOAA says 2012 is much hotter, because they are completely FOS.

Compare August 1936 to August 2012-  below.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-08-c1.pdf

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Many alarmist blogs, like Joe Romm don’t allow any differing viewpoints. I do, but this blog is getting flooded with endless repetition of the same stupid comments over and over again. I am starting to get much more aggressive with my spam filter.

If you want to object to something specific I am saying, fine – but keep your offended generic religious sensibilities to yourself.

One reader noticed that the technique I was using for measuring NIC ice was not as accurate as it could be. I appreciate that. I don’t appreciate idiotic complaints about map overlays as being “homemade graphs.”

Finish third grade before you post.

Constantly looking for sacred anointed signs – like the phony “Arctic minimum” and the phony “Greenland meltdown”

Mankind never changes. Superstition always dominates.