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Do these geniuses ever stop and think about what they are complaining about?

Ice Age Research
JANUARY 10, 2012

High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for at least 1,500 years, according to a recently published article in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Officially, the earth has been in an interglacial, or warmer period, for the last 10,000 to 15,000 years, and estimates vary on how long such periods last.

“(Analysis) suggests that the end of the current interglacial (period) would occur within the next 1,500 years, if atmospheric CO2 concentrations do not exceed (around) 240 parts per million by volume (ppmv),” the study said.

However, the current carbon dioxide concentration is of 390 ppmv, and at that level an increase in the volume of ice sheets would not be possible, it added.

Ice Age Research | Catlin Arctic Survey

With only eight weeks left until harvest, the corn crop along the coast is going crazy  in the 5 degree heat.

Weather Webcams | Weather Underground

Some people will respond by giving up, or at least withdrawing from political action. Why, they will ask, should we bother, if the inevitable destination is the loss of so much of what we hold dear: the forests, the brooks, the wetlands, the coral reefs, the sea ice, the glaciers, the birdsong and the night chorus, the soft and steady climate which has treated us kindly for so long?

After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

Soft and steady climate? Perhaps he is thinking of the LIA which brought the Black Death and killed 80% of Europe? Perhaps he is thinking of the Irish Potato Famine which killed 25% of the population of Ireland? Maybe the Bristol Flood of 1607, or the England Drought of 1976?

Or perhaps this is what he is thinking of?

1. DROUGHT IN ENGLAND.

   Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 – 1899) Friday 1 July 1887 p 2 Article

   … DROUGHT IN ENGLAND. The agricultural prospects in several’ English counties are being seriously affected by the prolongeddrought. … 18 words

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Phil Jones lists August, 1865 as the coldest month ever in the Southern Hemisphere.

The map below shows all of the land data he had that month. Jones had less than two dozen land based thermometers in the Southern Hemisphere and many of those were above normal. yet was able to report record cold with a precision of 0.001 degrees,

If the Arctic Ocean warmed up 2 degrees, would sea level rise or fall?

Oklahoma July Hottest Month Ever Recorded in U.S.

Last week, we gloated that, although Tulsa and OKC made the cut as two of the five hottest cities in the U.S., Lubbock, TX had the dubious honor of being awarded Very Most Hellish City of 2011 by The Daily Beast. “At least we don’t live in Texas,” we poked.

We will now eat our words, because the Oklahoma Climatological Survey has just announced that July, 2011 in Oklahoma was the hottest month ever recorded in the contiguous United States.

Oklahoma July Hottest Month Ever Recorded in U.S. | This Land Press

Last year’s climate disinformation campaign was largely centered around Oklahoma and Texas, and claims that July in Oklahoma was the hottest month ever in the US. Actually, it wasn’t even close.

Meeker, Oklahoma is the closest USHCN station to Oklahoma City. They recorded no days in July, 2011 over 110 degrees, and only two days in August.

The hottest month was August, 1913 – when  there were twenty-two days over 110F – compared to zero days in July, 2011.

The year 1936 also had ten days over 110F, including the all-time record high of 119F and four days over 115F. There have been a total of fifty-nine days over 110F in Meeker, Oklahoma, and all but three occurred below 350 PPM. The vast majority occurred before 1940.

U.S. Historical Climatology Network

Claims that last summer was the hottest ever, and that it was caused by CO2, are garbage. If Oklahoma had a month like August, 1913 with twenty-two days over 110F, Joe Romm would demand immediate world communism.

Will Arctic Sea Ice Reach Record Low This Year? : Discovery News

What are these geniuses talking about? A week after the article was written, the Arctic Basin is still almost entirely frozen over.

arctic.io – Arctic Terra – (2012/177)

There are two ice sheets on Earth – Greenland and Antarctica. Both are located at high latitudes and and high altitudes. Temperatures are too cold over the vast majority of the ice sheets to ever melt.

Alarmists have made a big stink about melting along the lower fringes of the western edge of the Greenland ice sheet. If you have ever flown over Western Greenland in late summer (I have several times) you can see that the ice there is almost pitch black. It is covered with soot or dirt and as a result melts for a few weeks every summer.

At the end of the last ice age, the Earth slowly warmed by 4–7 °C globally14 and lost almost two-thirds of its land ice in the process. That raised sea level by 120 metres, at rates often exceeding a metre per century1. It seems that nothing in the present ice-sheet configuration would rule out similar rates in future. How much of the remaining 65 metres’ worth of land ice will humans melt if we warm the planet by a further several degrees?

A new view on sea level rise : article : Nature Reports Climate Change

At the end of the last ice age, the ice sheet extended as far south as 40N (New York and Chicago). By contrast, the southern tip of Greenland is at 60N. Temperatures in the center of the Greenland ice sheet  have not gotten above freezing at any time this year.

Besides the fact that the remaining ice is located much further north, most is at much higher elevation and the surface area is much smaller than it was 15,000 years ago. Melt rates producing sea level rise of one metre per century are completely implausible.

Rahmstorf has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.

docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/050/mwr-050-01-0010.pdf

Hansen says that extreme heat waves like this can only be caused by man-made CO2.