Real Climate Science

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I love how Reagan addressed the second worst president as “governor”

Sea ice in the Arctic is disappearing at a far greater rate than previously expected, according to data from the first purpose-built satellite launched to study the thickness of the Earth’s polar caps.

Preliminary results from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 probe indicate that 900 cubic kilometres of summer sea ice has disappeared from the Arctic ocean over the past year.

This rate of loss is 50% higher than most scenarios outlined by polar scientists and suggests that global warming, triggered by rising greenhouse gas emissions, is beginning to have a major impact on the region. In a few years the Arctic ocean could be free of ice in summer, triggering a rush to exploit its fish stocks, oil, minerals and sea routes.

Using instruments on earlier satellites, scientists could see that the area covered by summer sea ice in the Arctic has been dwindling rapidly. But the new measurements indicate that this ice has been thinning dramatically at the same time. For example, in regions north of Canada and Greenland, where ice thickness regularly stayed at around five to six metres in summer a decade ago, levels have dropped to one to three metres.

Rate of arctic summer sea ice loss is 50% higher than predicted | Environment | The Observer

Scary stuff – exactly the same as what happened between between 1900 and 1940

February 23, 1940

it was concluded that near Polar temperatures are on an average six degrees higher than those registered by Nansen 40 years ago. Ice measurements were on an average only 6½ feet against from 9¼ to 13 feet.

23 Feb 1940 – THE NORTH POLE. Is it Getting Warmer. | BUNDABER…<

A couple of years ago David Barber said that all the multiyear ice was gone, so it seems that conditions have improved considerably over the last two years.

Navy PIPS also shows considerable thickening over the last two years along the Canadian coast to about five metres. Do we expect The Guardian to ever tell the truth about anything?

h/t to Steven Mosher

They have established a precedent where they can keep temperatures “above normal” forever, and establish a new record any time they feel like it – simply by continuing their current scheme of cheating and lying.

Perhaps Paul Ryan will become President of the US Senate and will be in a position to terminate the criminals in charge of the US temperature record.

• Obama didn’t know that his long time spiritual mentor and inspiration for his book was an America hating racist
• Obama didn’t know that his literary agent promoted him for 17 years as being born in Kenya
• Obama didn’t know that the guy who launched his political career was a terrorist
• Obama didn’t know that he had never seen his birth certificate
• Obama didn’t know that he wasn’t a member of the Senate Banking Committee
• Obama didn’t know that he promised to bankrupt the coal industry
• Obama didn’t know that he promised to balance the budget
• Obama didn’t know that he was a socialist
• Obama didn’t know that his billions of green energy money was actually campaign contribution payola
• Obama didn’t know that his stimulus package was a joke

• Obama didn’t know that his whole “Hope And Change” theme was complete bullshit, and that he would turn to the dark side for his next election.

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This past winter was one of the coldest on record in Russia, Asia, Alaska and eastern Europe. It was the fourth snowiest on record in Eurasia

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

1. Satellites went up during an unusually cold period at the end of the ice age scare.
2. This was followed shortly thereafter by two large volcanic eruptions which dragged temperatures down.
3. Two large El Ninos later pushed the right side up.
4. There has been no warming for 15 years.
5. According to Hansen, we should be well above 1C now.

In other words, nothing is happening to the global temperature and Hansen is incompetent.

Every year someone shows up here and starts claiming that sea ice is made of salt water and will melt until the temperature drops below -2C.

Can you drink melted sea ice?

New ice is usually very salty because it contains concentrated droplets called brine that are trapped in pockets between the ice crystals, and so it would not make good drinking water. As ice ages, the brine eventually drains through the ice, and by the time it becomes multiyear ice, nearly all of the brine is gone. Most multiyear ice is fresh enough that someone could drink its melted water. In fact, multiyear ice often supplies the fresh water needed for polar expeditions.

All About Sea Ice, Introduction :: National Snow and Ice Data Center

This time of year, almost all of the Arctic ice is fresh water ice.