http://news.google.com/newspapers

Joe Romm’s head would explode if this happened now.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.anim.html

Temperatures have been cool all summer.

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

Antarctica by contrast, is running above normal at a sweltering -90F.

But  …… the world’s top rated climatologist says the climate is stable below 350 ppm.

http://query.nytimes.com/

http://www.summitcamp.org/status/weather/

This the hottest week of the year. The ice is fading fast at -10C.

Aleqa Hammond wants Naalakkersuisut intervenes and does something about the overall food shortage in Upernavik

06:14, 9 June 2011

He heard that it is like Tahiti now.

Twelve degrees above normal in the center of the country. That was 75 years ago, when CO2 levels were extremely safe.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-07-c1.pdf

Global Warming: It’s Fat People’s Fault

If the mail I get from readers is any indication, the issue of climate change is a dastardly conspiracy to “redistribute global wealth,” as one memorably explained to me. Now greenhouse deniers can imagine another conspiracy: it is all a plot to get rid of fat people.

The link between obesity and climate change has come up before, although subtly. An AP story last year noted that people could combat both of these problems by walking or bicycling rather than driving (so they burn calories, not gasoline). And writing in the Huffington Post, filmmaker Bryan Young (“Killer at Large”) cited a scientist who told him that “for every pound the average American is overweight, we use an additional 938 million gallons of gasoline per year.

http://www.newsweek.com/

Earlier this week, Cryosat released data showing that Arctic ice is much thicker than the slush in the PIOMAS computer model. Here is a first person account from a Norwegian who attempted to canoe to the pole.

After 13 days cancel Cecilie Skog attempt reach the North Pole with a canoe.

“There is really no disgrace,” is the title of the blog post North Pole expedition Cecilie Skog and Rune Gjeldnes published on Ut.no Tuesday.

Ålesund, the woman thought they had a realistic timetable to be first to reach the North Pole in summer without the addition of supplies.

– If we continue north now, so can the consequence be that we set in motion a rescue operation in the middle of the Arctic Ocean about 4-5 weeks, and we do not want, they write on the Expedition blog Tuesday.

– Brash ice

The expedition had an appointment with an icebreaker to get them at 90 degrees north on 27 July. However, because ice conditions were worse than expected, and leads to paddle did not materialize, they have the past few days only managed to leave behind the daily distances of around ten miles.

Forest believes that this is only half of what they should do in this phase of the trip. In recent days, Forestry and Gjeldnes described how they have fought their way through ice, slush and water, under very strenuous conditions.

– It’s brash ice in front of us for hundreds of kilometers, and it does not appear that it will change significantly with the first, they write.

http://translate.google.com/

In 2008, Lewis Pugh tried a similar stunt based on a mis-prediction from another Arctic expert.

h/t to Marc Morano

Global warming, unlike religion, is not to be taken on faith. The so-called skeptics or deniers should not say their skepticism or denial is based on nonbelief. Global warming has nothing to do with belief or nonbelief.

Global warming, or global climate change, is based on observable scientific facts.

These facts are not in dispute by climatologists or other scientists who make a study of weather phenomenon their focus. Much was made of a petition signed by thousands of scientists who have little or nothing to do with climatology. That and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee.

As has been said many times by many people: “You may have your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”

Unfortunately, many people are taken by misinformed opinions spewed out as facts. Facts can be, and are, subject to interpretation and opinions. But starting with the same set of information provides a basis for discussion and, ultimately, action.

True enough, some areas in the United States experienced severe cold spells this past winter. It also is true many areas of the United States and the world experienced a very mild, even warm, winter. Sure, it might have been minus 20 in Rapid City, S.D., but at the same time, it was 110 in the shade in Rio de Janeiro.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/

The warmest temperature in Rio since December 1 of last year was 95F.

http://www.wunderground.com/

Last winter was the 37th coldest on record in the US, and the previous winter was the 15th coldest on record in the US.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html