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Not only is Bering Sea ice at a record high extent, but the water surrounding it for hundreds of miles is at near record low temperatures.

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Unprecedented global warming could make the weather just like it was in 1976, when Earth suffered from global cooling. Published by The Guardian in their “Climate Change” section.

Summer weather: best hope is cool and damp, say officials 

Is there anyone at the Guardian with an IQ higher than a turnip?

Nature reports that glacial melt and thermal expansion only cause half of the tiny bit of sea level rise reported by tide gauges.

Source found for missing water in sea-level rise
Human use of water contributes markedly to rising tides.
Amanda Mascarelli
20 May 2012

Climate change, with its associated melting ice caps and shrinking glaciers, is the usual suspect when it comes to explaining rising sea levels. But a recent study now shows that human water use has a major impact on sea-level change that has been overlooked.

During the latter half of the twentieth century, global sea level rose by about 1.8 millimetres per year, according to data from tide gauges. The combined contribution from heating of the oceans, which makes the water expand, along with melting of ice caps and glaciers, is estimated to be 1.1 millimetres per year, which leaves some 0.7 millimetres per year unaccounted for. This gap has been considered an important missing piece of the puzzle in estimates for past and current sea-level changes and for projections of future rises.

It now seems that the effects of human water use on land could fill that gap. A team of researchers reports in Nature Geoscience that land-based water storage could account for 0.77 millimetres per year, or 42%, of the observed sea-level rise between 1961 and 2003. Of that amount, the extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use, with subsequent run-off to rivers and eventually to the oceans, represents the bulk of the contribution.

Source found for missing water in sea-level rise : Nature News & Comment

But it is worse than it seems. Much of the remaining claimed 1mm/year rise is due to subsidence caused by groundwater pumping, as well as gravity dragging the tide gauges down.

Our satellite friends recently tripled Envisat sea level rise to almost 3mm/year, to bring it in line with their other bogus trends.

h/t to Marc Morano

Without the Y2K rewrite of the US temperature record, the US graph would look like this.

The graph above appends the last fourteen years of the current GISS US graph on to the uncorrupted 1999 version – with everything normalized to 1998.

Without the Y2K data tampering, the US would be cooler than the 1930s – and that would have severely damaged Hansen’s ability to keep the $100 billion/year scam alive.

Also note that without the tampering, the four hottest years in the US would have occurred before 1960.  By tampering with the data, Hansen has made an honest discussion about global warming nearly impossible.

Now that Suzanne Goldenberg has personally cleared Gleick of forgery charges, and demonstrated that his fraud and theft was for the good of the planet – will he be reinstated as AGU’s ethics officer?

James Hansen is considered the world’s leading expert on climate, because of his prodigious numbers of spectacularly failed forecasts. Few could aspire to such levels of incompetence, but for an up and coming climate scamster – how many failed forecasts are needed to become an expert?

Perhaps incompetence with statistics, data tampering, a complete lack of ethics, and refusal to debate are also required to be an expert?

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Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer sea ice will probably be gone in this decade.

Now they are working with a new computer model ….  that produces a “best guess” date of 2016.

BBC News – New warning on Arctic sea ice melt

Important disclaimer : The Arctic has actually been ice free (year round) since the year 2000

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December 15, 2009

There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.

The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.

Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.

In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

Because climate change in the Arctic region is occurring faster and to a greater extent than anywhere else, the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free for a short period of time as early as the summer of 2015, according to the 2009 Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Report completed by the eight Arctic Council Nations.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/