Alarmists got very interested in the Greenland Ice Sheet for about three hours, and then they packed up and ran away
Then they obsessed over the ratio of record highs to record lows, before they packed up and ran away.
HAMweather Climate Center – Record Events – Continental US View
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Turquoise represents current ice that wasn’t present at the 2007 minimum. Red is the opposite.
In order to get to 2007 minimum levels, 27% of the current ice covered area would have to disappear.
Shell Races the Ice in Alaska
Delays Put $4.5 Billion Arctic Drilling Plan in Danger of Missing Window Before Next FreezeRoyal Dutch Shell RDSB.LN -0.55% is spending billions of dollars to drill the first oil wells in U.S. Arctic waters in 20 years, backed by an Obama administration eager to show it wasn’t opposed to offshore exploration.
But the closely watched project isn’t going the way the company or the government hoped—illustrating the continuing challenge of plumbing for natural riches in one of the world’s most unforgiving locations.
Sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off the northern Alaska coast was slow to break up this year, leaving the drilling areas inaccessible much later than anticipated.
Hudson Bay bears go for months every summer with no ice, but for some reason Alaskan bears are all going to starve to death because a mid August storm broke up the ice and now they have to swim a few miles off shore.
But he is a Democrat so the press won’t talk about it.
We have comments insinuating that my graphs are wrong. Prove it.
Data is here.
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201208_F52.avg.gz
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/9641C_201208_raw.avg.gz
***"fully adjusted temperature series"***
- "9641C_YYYYMM_F52.avg.gz" if you want the average of fully-adjusted monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures (with estimates for missing values).
***"raw (unadjusted) temperature series"***
- "9641C_YYYYMM_raw.avg.gz" if you want the average of monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures that are not bias adjusted.
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2/monthly/readme.txt
The correction is much larger than they admit.
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It is interesting reading the comments below. Typical alarmist strategy. They come here and boldly lie about every aspect the discussion.
Over the last four years, Newsweek has gone from this :
to this :
Arctic ice extent in late summer is less than it was in 1980. Nobody would know or care if it wasn’t for team climate moron lying about polar bear populations. Somehow these people have convinced the public the location of the September Arctic ice edge somehow affects their lives.
It doesn’t affect their lives in any way shape or form, and there is plenty of ice in the Arctic.
There seems to be no limit to the depth or breadth of climate BS.
Last year’s most devastating tropical system — Hurricane Irene — was considered by some experts to be a “100-year-event,” a storm that comes around only once a century.
Irene lashed the East Coast in August, killing at least 45 people and leading to $7.6 billion in damages.
But a study out this week in Nature Climate Change says that due to global warming, these monster storms could make landfall more frequently, causing destructive storm surges every 3 to 20 years instead of once a century.
