The US generates about 40,000,000,000,000,000 BTUs of heat energy from burning gasoline every year, most of it in urban areas. Climate experts tell us that this has little or no impact on local temperatures.
However, an increase of 0.0001 mole fraction CO2 will blow temperatures through the roof.
Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find
August 19, 2000
At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate.
The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago.
”It was totally unexpected,” said Dr. James J. McCarthy, an oceanographer, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and the co-leader of a group working for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sponsored by the United Nations. The panel is studying the potential environmental and economic consequences of marked climate change.
Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find – New York Times
This is exactly what they predicted in 1972, right before the ice age scare of 1974.
www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv
The lowest January-July average ice extent was in 2006, with 2012 ranked third highest. The trend has been slightly upwards over the last seven years.
Every month we hear that 2012 is the record lowest, which leads us to the conclusion that using climate math, the sum of a large quantity of negative numbers is a positive number.
PIOMAS is showing that current ice volume is about 50% of 2008. Do you think that is credible?
In 2008, Mark Serreze warned that the North Pole was likely to melt away because the ice was so thin. According to PIOMAS, it is only half as thick this year as it was in 2008. The ice must be doomed to all melt away this summer.
FRIDAY 27 JUNE 2008
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.
“From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water,” said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.
Taken along the bike trail to Whole Foods this afternoon. The grass is 2-3 feet tall. Normally in August this is all brown.
For centuries it was believed that the Emperor had no clothing, but new research indicates that this was based on the testimony of one small child, who had no background in textiles or even retail clothing sales. He also had no formal education in clothing and had never published anything about fashion in a peer reviewed journal.
Furthermore, it has been discovered that more than 97% of the experts at the time agreed that the emperor had clothing. We can therefor safely conclude that the emperor was well clothed, and that the child was not competent to discuss his wardrobe.
Richard Dawkins has been a hero of the left for his outspoken criticism of religious belief.
I have done some background research on him (30 seconds on Wikipedia) and have discovered that he has no formal training in theology, nor is he involved with any church.
By the well defined standards of the left, this clearly disqualifies him from talking about religious matters – which can only be properly discussed by people who have formal training and a steeply vested interest in their own dogma.
I have only put gas in my car once this summer, and then only because my $1.50 per gallon Safeway fuel rewards were about to expire. Normally I ride my bicycle everywhere.
I just had to drive across town to pick up something heavy, and by the time I got home an hour later I was totally pissed off about all the traffic lights and stupid drivers.
On Thursday I bought a new road bike, and am headed over now to Whole Foods to pick up lunch for the kids. That will ease the pain – assuming I don’t flip over the handlebars like I did last weekend ;^)
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They are showing that ice volume is 50% of 2008 – the year when Serreze forcast an ice-free North Pole, because the ice was so thin.
PIOMAS.vol.daily.1979.2012.Current.v2.dat.gz (Version 2.0)
Even more bizarre is that they show the average thickness (volume divided by area) of the ice at the end of July being 1.4 metres. If that were true it would almost all melt by the end of August.
The US Navy shows the ice being much thicker than PIOMAS
