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After 50 years of warming, temperatures turned cold again in the 1970s

1975 – Science News

According to global warming theory, both poles should get warmer and lose ice. Over the last thirty years, one pole has gotten warmer and lost ice. The other pole has gotten colder and gained ice.

These short term trends do not fit global warming theory. Greenland was warmer in 1940 than it is now.

The current Greenland warming, while not yet quite matching the temperatures of 70 years ago …..

– Walt Meier NSIDC

“Examination of several proxy records (e.g., sediment cores) of sea ice indicate ice-free or near ice-free summer conditions for at least some time during the period of 15,000 to 5,000 years ago”

– Walt Meier NSIDC

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Morons talking about a “death spiral” should see if they can get their lobotomy reversed.

Twitter / HeidiCullen: 1912 still wettest in UK (15+”). …

h/t to Marc Morano

Rain comes too late for US corn crop

Amazing ….

Apparently the Mississippi River must be dried up, but no one noticed.

Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

James Hansen

NASA GISS: Science Briefs: Whither U.S. Climate?

You can’t make this stuff up.  In 2007, they forecast ice-free in 2013, and said it was too conservative. Peter Wadhams from Cambridge jumped on board.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013

Then ice extent went up and Serreze said that they overreacted

“In hindsight, probably too much was read into 2007, and I would take some blame for that,” Serreze said. “There were so many of us that were astounded by what happened, and maybe we read too much into it.”

Tricky Sea Ice Predictions Call for Scientists to Open Their Data | Wired Science | Wired.com

Five years later, they are doing exactly the same thing.

Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, said that a prediction he made in 2008 that the ice could be gone in 2015 because of global warming was looking cautious.

THIS SUMMER?

“It could even all go this summer,” he said. “So I think the 2015 date is now looking a bit conservative. We may end up having an ice-free summer before then.”

Arctic summer sea ice might thaw by 2015

How is two to five metres of ice going to melt this summer, with the sun setting for the winter and temperatures below 0C? They can’t even keep their story straight, much less get it right.

h/t to Tom Nelson and Marc Morano

Intellicast – Weekly Precipitation in United States

You really can’t make up stuff more comedic than the US Government.

US Drought Monitor

Mark told us recently that the August storm didn’t have much effect on ice extent.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Itis just bad sportsmanship to leave the traps looking like that. Apparently the big meltdown this summer got everyone confused.

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The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits was unchanged last week, pointing to a labor market that was treading water.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits were a seasonally adjusted 374,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The prior week’s figure was revised up to show 2,000 more applications than previously reported.

Jobless Claims Hold Flat; Spending Outpaces Income Gain – US Business News – CNBC