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December. 1938 – temperatures in the Arctic above freezing.

In England, March and December of last year were the warmest of the century during which records have been kept at Greenwich.

In December, Moscow was gripped in a protracted cold spell and temperatures fell at times to 50.8 degrees below zero Centigrade.

During the same month, Soviet scientists, wintering at the observatory on Rudolf Is- land, 560 miles from the North Pole, reported a temperature well above the freezing point.

25 Apr 1939 – WILL EARTH GET WARMER? Scientist Has New Theory

“Remarkable Changes”

“Our generation is living in a period when remarkable changes are taking place almost everywhere throughout the world,” writes Professor L. Berg, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. “‘Certainly these widely distributed phenomena cannot be due to the action of the Gulf Stream, which, however, naturally receives its share of the greater general warmth.” The slow thawing of the Arctic is given as a partial explanation for the record voyages of Soviet ice-breakers to northern latitudes, which have never before been reached by navigating vessels. The Sadko in 1935, in ice- free water of the North Kara Sea, steamed to 82 degrees, 42 minutes of northern latitude—an all-time record. 

25 Apr 1939 

This is just what they warned us about. Global warming is forcing people to move south to warmer climates.

Cold Winter and Summer Have Some Ready to Leave Alaska

After record-breaking winter, cool summer is a bummer

ANCHORAGE – After a record-breaking winter, we are now headed for one of the coldest months of July on record.
And it has some Alaskans thinking it may be time to leave the great land.

By Alaska summer standards, it’s been a pretty cool and gloomy start to the beginning of July.

The temps may be setting records, but it’s not the first summer that’s been less than sunny – and some people say they’ve had enough.

Cold Winter and Summer Have Some Ready to Leave Alaska | KTVA CBS 11 | Anchorage, Alaska News and Weather | Outbound XML Feeds

But it is hot inside Trenberth`s head, and that proves global warming.

radical change in climatic conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic  …. seals are finding the water too hot … well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared

05 Apr 1923 – ARCTIC “HEAT WAVE.” ICEBERGS DIMINISHING.

27 Jun 1953 – ARCTIC HEAT WAVE

Anchorage is currently having their coldest summer on record, but it was hot in DC during June – and that proves global warming.

If an iceberg calves in the Arctic, and no neurotic leftie sees it in a satellite image, does it still cause the world to end?

By SETH BORENSTEIN

WASHINGTON — An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan tore off one of Greenland’s largest glaciers, illustrating another dramatic change to the warming island.

For several years, scientists had been watching a long crack near the tip of the northerly Petermann Glacier. On Monday, NASA satellites showed it had broken completely, freeing an iceberg measuring 46 square miles.

A massive ice sheet covers about four-fifths of Greenland. Petermann Glacier is mostly on land, but a segment sticks out over water like a frozen tongue, and that’s where the break occurred.

Glacier in north Greenland breaks off huge iceberg – Technology & science – Science – NBCNews.com

That is how glaciers work, Mr. Nitwit. The snow accumulates in the interior, turns into ice, flows to the sea, cracks, breaks off and floats away.

One hundred years ago a large iceberg from Greenland sank the Titanic, but no mentally deficient lefties were there to blame it on your SUV.

Someone gave me a good laugh this morning here when they commented that the last six months was the “hottest in US history.”

Weird, and I was thinking that would more likely happen during the summer. Here are the actual hottest six month periods in US history (based on USHCN daily data) with the listed month being the end month of the period.

Rank	 Month	Year	Temperature 
1	10	1884	72.3148
2	9	1884	70.2974
3	11	1884	69.0078
4	10	1936	68.9492
5	10	1934	68.8574
6	10	1900	68.4994
7	9	1934	68.3717
8	9	1936	68.2988
9	10	1883	68.209
10	10	1939	68.1647
11	10	1998	68.1628
12	10	1933	68.1146
13	10	2007	68.0039
14	10	1921	67.862
15	10	1901	67.8594
16	10	1938	67.8125
17	10	1922	67.7998
18	10	1885	67.771
19	10	1963	67.7116
20	10	1941	67.6986

GISS shows June anomalies north of 80N from 0-5 to 4C. They depend heavily on those large North Pole numbers to bring the global average up.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

A couple of minor problems.

1. It is impossible to get those sort of anomalies over the ice pack in summer. Temperatures over the ice are buffered by the latent heat of melting.
2. Actual measured temperatures show that June was below normal north of 80N.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

So where do the GISS numbers come from? They pull them out from where the sun never shines, because they don’t have any thermometers north of 80N.

Data.GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis

Almost everyone believes that the earth has warmed over the last 80 years. The reason we believe that is because the same people who have been tampering with the US data set tell us that the planet has warmed over the last 80 years. Do we have any other reason to believe it?

No.

We know that the planet warmed from 1910 to 1945. We know that the planet cooled from 1950 to 1975. We know that the planet warmed from 1975  to 1998. Beyond those pieces of information, the relative position of 2012 and 1940 is a mystery.

So stop drooling. That is what Hansen wants you to do.

Guest post by Joe Bastardi

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The Way it Is: Back to the  50s.

In  2006 , I loudly proclaimed on national outlets that we were going back to the  1950s  as far as the climate pattern went  and that  the patterns of the  50s which opened the east coast up for hurricanes, as well as  hot, droughty  look,  for the southern US  would take over. The reason was simple,  we were in a cycle roughly like the  period when the PDO and AMO warmed and a flip to the cold PDO was on the way.  So  its not brain surgery  to  then go to the maps of the summer of the  1950s with heat and drought,

and then the remarkable slamming of the east coast in the  1950s

This  Made  it relatively unremarkable to me to simply forecast the similar event based on the reality of where the pattern was going.

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