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Panetta warned today that disappearing sea ice threatens the US. Meanwhile, the National Weather Service warned today of record sea ice.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK
215 PM AKDT THU MAY 3 2012

…RECORD SEA ICE AT PRIBILOF ISLANDS…

THIS HAS BEEN AN EXTREME WINTER FOR SEA ICE IN THE BERING SEA AND NOW WE HAVE BROKEN THE RECORDS FOR MOST NUMBER OF DAYS WITH ICE AT BOTH SAINT PAUL ISLAND AND SAINT GEORGE ISLAND.

AS OF TODAY SEA ICE HAS BEEN AT SAINT PAUL ISLAND FOR 103 DAYS THIS WINTER BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 100 DAYS SET IN 2010.

THE NUMBER OF DAYS WITH SEA ICE AT SAINT GEORGE ISLAND TOTALED 79 WHEN THE ICE RETREATED NORTH ON THE 25TH OF APRIL. THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF 60 DAYS WAS SET IN 2010.

National Weather Service, Anchorage Forecast Office Public Forecasts

Panetta has proven that he is clueless enough to be a star in the Obama White House. He boldly makes statements about things he knows absolutely nothing about, just like his boss.

h/t to Marc Morano

Two very smart scientists, with brains unaffected by acute GISS pollution.

The Prescott Courier – Dec 24, 1978

The Prescott Courier – Google News Archive Search

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

A favorite trick of Hansen, Hayhoe, Dessler, et. al is to start their Mann-made warming trends in the 1970s.  This is a wonderful trick, because they also tell us that the 1970s were artificially cooled by man-made cooling.

The cooling between 1940 and 1970 was likely a result of industrial pollution that produced sunlight-blocking aerosols, a phenomenon known as global dimming. As industry ramped up across the globe, much air pollution was being spewed out of smoke stacks along with carbon dioxide.

Global Warming: Fiction: Scientists in the 1970s Were Predicting a Coming Ice Age

Hansen uses the 1970s as his baseline for normal temperatures, and his crew also tells us that 1970s temperatures were not normal because of aerosols.

So the rules are, use the 1970s when convenient for obtaining  funding, and chuck them when inconvenient.

97% of climate scientists have now graduated from kindergarten.

Sea-level rises ‘may not be as high as worst-case scenarios have predicted’ | Environment | guardian.co.uk

US Drought Monitor

Natural droughts tend to be much less severe, like this one from 1934.

One more item which has to be dealt with.

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In 1972, my brother and I were playing golf on the Aspen, Colorado golf course (basically a big cow pasture.)  A large, slightly intoxicated gentleman appeared out of the rough and told us that he had lost all his balls and asked if he could purchase a couple from us. We obliged, and then he asked if he could play along with us.

We were of course annoyed, but agreed. He was very polite and asked us lots of questions. Being typical rude teenagers, we didn’t ask anything about him until around the 17th hole. He then told us “I am a TV producer. I produced a show called Star Trek. Have you ever heard of it?”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thW5cXC3pJ4]

They were having a convention at the Holiday Inn, and Gene Roddenberry got bored and went out to play golf.

I was pointing out the other day that with the polar cap melting, we now have problems with regard to who claims the area in the polar region.

Defense.gov Speech:

Alaska had the most sea ice ever recorded this winter, with four of the top five winters occurring since 2007.

University of Illinois – Cryosphere Today

The people of Barrow, Alaska are actually expecting Russians to invade on surfboards at any minute. The ice is only five or six feet thick, and with high temperatures reaching 16 degrees below freezing, that ice will be gone soon.

Barrow Sea Ice Webcam

By SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Greenland’s glaciers are hemorrhaging ice at an increasingly faster rate but not at the breakneck pace that scientists once feared, a new study says.

The loss of ice from the glaciers that cover the island is about 30 percent faster than it was a decade ago, researchers said. That means Greenland’s contribution to future sea level rise would be about 4 inches by the year 2100 if ice loss doesn’t speed up much more, a study author said.

That may not sound like much, but when other causes of sea rise around the globe are added, the total could still be about 3 feet by the end of the century, researchers said.

http://www.usnews.com/science/news/articles/2012/05/03/greenland-losing-ice-fast-but-not-runaway-pace

“Increasingly faster?” Sounds bad, whatever it means. We need to keep a close eye on this. The roofs in Tasiilaq no longer are covered with snow, and the surfing is looking fine in the bay.

Hendriks webcam i Tasiilaq

h/t to Marc Morano

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