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The map below shows the “2007 record low” Arctic ice extent, and the red dot indicates where a Russian boat sailed to in 1935 – in ice-free water.

Apparently there was less ice in the Eastern Arctic in 1935 than there was during the all-time-record-lowest-Armageddon-we-are-all-doomed-irreversible-tipping-point summer of 2007.

“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 

Last spring, Hillary traveled to Nuuk Greenland during near record cold – and reported back about Arctic melting. She pulled the same trick again this weekend in Norway.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a first hand look Saturday at the way a warming climate is changing the Arctic, opening a once frozen region to competition for vast oil reserves. Experts here estimate the value of the Arctic’s untapped oil alone — not including natural gas and minerals — at $900 trillion, making it a huge prize for the five countries that surround the Arctic if they can reach it. And with climate warming opening up some 46,000 square kilometres (18,000 square miles) a year that had once been bound in ice, the region is expected to burst open, not just with oil exploration but with East-West trade along a more accessible northern route. Returning from a tour of the Arctic coastline aboard a Norwegian research trawler with scientists and government officials, Clinton told reporters that she learned “many of the predictions about warming in the Arctic are being surpassed by the actual data.” “That was not necessarily surprising but sobering,” she said. Clinton in Arctic to see impact of climate change

What Hillary actually encountered in Norway – was record cold and a country getting covered with snow in June.

Europe-wide Last 7 Days Accumulated Snow

As far as the claim that the Arctic used to be covered with ice goes – in 1935 a Russian ship sailed within 500 miles of the pole in ice free water, well north of Norway.

“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 

The tiny change in CO2 shown in the red circle at lower right, is what Hansen believes has pushed the planet past an irreversible tipping point.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

With perhaps 10-12 weeks remaining in the growing season, the corn crop is really busting out in Kulusuk at 1.8C.

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Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos  James Hansen*  †‡  and Larissa Nazarenko*  †

Plausible estimates for the effect of soot on snow and ice albedos (1.5% in the Arctic and 3% in Northern Hemisphere land areas) yield a climate forcing of
0.3 W
m2 in the Northern Hemisphere. The ‘‘ef?cacy’’ of this forcing is
2, i.e., for a given forcing it is twice as effective as CO2 in altering global surface air temperature.

Global Warming. Soot snow
ice albedo climate forcing is not included in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change evaluations.  This forcing is unusually effective, causing twice as much global  warming as a CO2 forcing of the same magnitude. This high efficacy  is a straight-forward consequence of positive albedo feedbacks and  atmospheric stability at high latitudes.  Our estimate for the mean soot effect on spectrally integrated  albedos in the Arctic (1.5%) and Northern Hemisphere land areas  (3%) yields a Northern Hemisphere forcing of 0.3 W
m2  or an  effective hemispheric forcing of 0.6 W
m2  . The calculated global  warming in an 1880–2000 simulation is about one quarter of  observed global warming

pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2004/2004_Hansen_Nazarenko.pdf

WUWT is featuring an old article by Hansen blaming global warming on methane instead of CO2. Hansen has talked on both sides of many issues, including once blaming Arctic warming primarily on soot.

The bottom line is that Hansen has succeeded in destroying the coal-fired electricity industry, and is planning to go after natural gas next.

On June 2, last year, I was riding my bike along the flooded Poudre River and found a doe and newborn fawn stranded on an island. They were later rescued by the fire department.

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Last night I was riding my bike alongside a non-flooded Spring Creek, and found a newborn fawn and her mother separated by an eight foot high mesh fence. Another rider was there and was contemplating picking up the fawn and carrying it around to its mother.

He must have done it, because when I rode back 15 minutes later, the family was hiding in the bushes in a horse pasture on the other side of the fence.

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Our hysterical anti-science friends claim that Arctic warming and melting caused the decline in multi-year Arctic ice, which was occurring prior to 2008.

This is complete nonsense. Most of the old ice was lost during the winters from 1988 to 1996, and was driven by strong winds pushing the ice out into the North Atlantic.

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The reduction in Arctic ice corresponded to an unusually active period of El Ninos, which occurred after the PDO shift in 1977.

NSIDC ignores satellite data from before 1979, which allows them to pretend that Arctic ice is decreasing linearly due to man-made CO2.

Warming gas levels hit ‘troubling milestone’
Posted: June 1, 2012 – 4:06pm

By SETH BORENSTEIN

Before the Industrial Age, levels were around 275 parts per million.

Warming gas levels hit ‘troubling milestone’

Life evolved on Earth with CO2 levels much higher than at present. The graph below shows in the red circle the tiny change which has occurred over the last 100 years.

It is interesting how climate alarmists share the same distorted view of history as young earth creationists. Just another group of religious fanatics.

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