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Arctic experts tell us that an “ice-free Arctic” means one million km^2

We could create an Obama-free America by not counting a lot less than one million km^2.  Without a half dozen large cities, he wouldn’t have a chance.

Election 2008: Time lapse of U.S. counties – USATODAY.com

http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/

WunderMap® | Interactive Weather Map and Radar | Weather Underground

In 2008, Mark Serreze forecast an ice-free pole for the summer, because the ice was so thin.

No one is making those kinds of forecasts any more, because the ice is thicker now.

Turquoise represents ice present in 2012 which wasn’t present at the 2007 minimum. Red shows the opposite. There is 22% more ice than there was at the 2007 minimum.

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/DATA/cursnow_alaska.gif

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/ims/ims_gif/ARCHIVE/AK/2007/ims2007265_alaska.gif

Passive microwave measurements are missing vast areas of ice, because an early winter storm broke the ice up into chunks which the satellites are unable to detect. Alarmists are going hysterical, based on garbage data.

Hansen forecast peak ice loss in the red circle below

www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects/downloads/Challenge_chapter2.pdf

The EPA has (of course) deleted this document from their web site, but the URL above is where it was located until a few weeks ago.

discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/data/amsu_daily_85N85S_ch05.r002.txt

Every day in 2012 except for nine has been cooler than 2010, with the year running 0.34 cooler than 2010. Experts tell us that 2012 is the hottest year ever.

Drudge was saying yesterday that Issac would rival Katrina

Tropical Storm Isaac is on the verge of becoming a Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall, but forecasters say the biggest threat will be the rainfall and storm surge, not the wind.

Tropical Storm Isaac Nears With Rainfall the Biggest Concern – ABC News

Democrats win House, promise new direction
POSTED: 6:05 p.m. EST, November 8, 2006

(CNN) — Democrats promised Wednesday to lead the country in a new direction after winning control of the House for the first time in 12 years in midterm elections.

By early Wednesday, Democrats had picked up at least 29 seats; they needed 15 to capture a majority in the House. Two Democratic seats in Georgia that were targeted by Republicans remained too close to call.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California, is now poised to become the first female speaker of the House.

Pelosi promised to lead the nation in a new direction “in partnership, not in partisanship.”

Democrats win House, promise new direction – CNN.com  

Summer is too short, temperatures are too low, and the ice is too thick north of 80N to all melt.

There isn’t any physical mechanism in our current climate to produce an ice-free Arctic.