Real Climate Science

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.

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Paul Ehrlich said that we all died a horrible death during the 1980s, and that we are going to suffer the same fate again.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: If society is to avoid collapse …

Ehrlich has been a broken record for at least 45 years.

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28 Jul 1971 – THE ROAD TO EXTINCTION

Paul Ehrlich – 1972

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h/t to Marc Morano

30 Aug 1948 – 173 Die In Heat Wave

Joe Romm hates Paul Ryan, which means that Ryan must be a person of exceptionally high character.

Romm says Wisconsin is being devastated by drought, which can mean only one thing – lots of unseasonably cool weather and rain headed to Wisconsin.

10-Day Precipitation Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

USHCN needs to hide the decline in summer temperatures, so they cheat by adding 1.4 degrees  on to recent temperatures relative to 100 years ago.  Then they blame the fake temperature rise on CO2.

Purely coincidentally, USHCN is as part of the Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. No confirmation bias there.

Hansen predicted 0.8C warming since 1988.  Even his bloated upwards adjusted temperatures have risen by less than one quarter of what he predicted.

Libs love this guy, because he is an incompetent loon.

More Temperature Figures

So far, summer 2012 has been the quietest on record for both tornadoes and hurricanes in the US. We also have the fewest forest fires since at least 2003.

However, a branch broke off a tree in front of the Capitol Building, and that has Bill McKibben convinced that the world is coming to an end.

Temperatures are a balmy 9C on this hot summer day, and Hendrik seems to have taken his dog to the beach for some ice surfing.