Real Climate Science

A winter storm broke up the ice in the Chukchi Sea at the beginning of the month and dragged warm water to the surface. As you can see from the animation above, not much else happened this month.

What does an early winter storm have to do with global warming?

-Storm area 1 million square kilometers

-Wave height of 2 to 3 meters broke apart ice into smaller chunks, increasing surface area and thus melting

-Storm mixed fresh water at surface (from melted ice) with deeper warmer saltier water from below increasing melting rate

-Storm agitated water to depths of 500 meters (where water is much warmer) bringing it to surface increasing melt rate

-Low pressure of storm center sucked up water level by 0.3 meters, causing warm water to flow into Arctic Ocean from Pacific Ocean via Bering Strait and from Atlantic Ocean, increasing melting

-Storm rotation (counterclockwise) spread out ice over larger area and pushed ice towards open ocean (on Atlantic Ocean side)

Julienne Stroeve NSIDC

Abramovich’s £25 million is paying off.

The US Navy shows a region larger than Alaska, of 8-16 foot thick ice. No doubt this will all melt at below 0 degrees C

The graph below shows the difference between USHCN average maximum and average minimum temperature since 1930. The gap is getting smaller due to UHI effects keeping nighttime temperatures up.

Alarmists claim that this is due to increased humidity caused by global warming, but as usual they have no idea what they are talking about.

Average long-term trends (1930 – 2010) indicate that temperature has warmed, but little change has occurred in dewpoint and specific humidity.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds no evidence of increased humidity in US, contradicts global warming theory

USHCN says that they make a 0.1F UHI adjustment, which is about 1500% too small.

Turquoise represents ice present in 2012 which wasn’t present at the 2007 minimum. Red shows the opposite. There is 36% 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.

August 25, 2012 at 2:23 pm

Where do these people come up with this crap? Sea level was rising much faster 8,000 years ago.

File:Holocene Sea Level.png – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bremen shows Arctic ice 20% below the 2007 minimum.

The National Ice Center shows Arctic 36% above the 2007 minimum.

The National Ice Center is in the business of being accurate and saving lives, while Bremen is in the business of obtaining global warming grant money.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Winter snowfall has been increasing for fifty years. The peak year for Arctic ice was the lowest year for winter snowfall.

There is no correlation between Arctic ice  and winter weather.

It has been seven years since Florida was hit by a hurricane, the longest such period on record. It looks like that is about to end. Alarmists will declare this as proof of global warming, because they suffer from a malady known as SFB.

www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist18512009.txt