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“Sea ice surrounding Antarctica is on the cusp of reaching a record winter low for a second year running, continuing an “outrageous” fall in the amount of Southern Ocean that is freezing over.”

‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running | Antarctica | The Guardian

January 3 Antarctic sea ice extent is sixteenth highest since 1979, and up 17% since 1981.

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Extent is well above average since 1978, but two weeks ago Ohio University published this nonsensical propaganda.

“with less sea ice and less sea ice duration, that increases the open ocean, which has a very low albedo. More open ocean allows more absorption of incoming solar radiation, which essentially accelerates global climate change.”

How disappearing Antarctic ice fuels a climate change reaction

Twenty years after the original “thing of the past” forecast, the BBC pushed the date back another twenty years.

Climate change: Snowy UK winters could become thing of the past

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

There is a large Mosque at “the intersection Hugh Road and Crescent Peak Drive in Northern Houston”

“FBI Houston has just issued a statement asking citizens to STAY AWAY from the area near the intersection Hugh Road and Crescent Peak Drive in Northern Houston They’re currently investigating a scene related to the attack in New Orleans, but are providing no further details at this time”

(3) Nick Sortor on X: “? #BREAKING: FBI Houston has just issued a statement asking citizens to STAY AWAY from the area near the intersection Hugh Road and Crescent Peak Drive in Northern Houston They’re currently investigating a scene related to the attack in New Orleans, but are providing no further https://t.co/LnFveNHwnI” / X

Twenty-five years after the end of snow was announced, snow is forecast for at least 48 states and all of the UK and Ireland.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Accumulated Snowfall (GFS 10-dayforecast)

Europe Next 3 Days Accumulated Snow

NOAA predicted a warm Jan-Feb-Mar in the US, as we head into historic cold.

Climate Prediction Center – Seasonal Outlook

Polar vortex heading for US sending temperatures plunging and making January the coldest for a decade | Daily Mail Online

Twenty-five years after CRU announced the end of snow in England, the UK is about to get buried in snow.

Europe Next 3 Days Accumulated Snow

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,”

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Less than three months ago, NOAA published this :

“NSIDC reported that the 2024 Antarctic maximum was 77,000 square miles (200,000 square kilometers) above the 2023 record-low extent, but it was 598,000 square miles (1.55 million square kilometers) below the average maximum extent from 1981-2010. In that sense, it’s continuing a pattern that began around 2016, with most winters from 2016-2022 having below-average ice extents. In another sense, however, it’s nothing like those years; like 2023, the 2024 winter maximum was so far outside the range of observed variability that some scientists speculate that the Southern Ocean sea ice may have entered a wholly new state.”

2024 Antarctic sea ice winter maximum second lowest on record | NOAA Climate.gov

December 30 Antarctic sea ice extent has increased 36% over the past two years, and is higher than 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, and all of the past eight years.

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ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p2/sh/osisaf_sh_sie_daily.txt

“Comparison of archival and recent photographs shows a marked increase in Namib Desert vegetation over the past 90 years of CO? increase, while regional climate models predict increased aridification with climate change.”

(17) Javier Vinós on X: “Comparison of archival and recent photographs shows a marked increase in Namib Desert vegetation over the past 90 years of CO? increase, while regional climate models predict increased aridification with climate change. https://t.co/iPQf3WHqFw https://t.co/I5jgowwasT” / X

Grok says that Polar Bears are threatened by declining sea ice, and Grok also says Polar Bears have shown they can adapt to low sea ice conditions.

“ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free.”

Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago | ScienceDaily

There has been no trend in the Arctic sea ice minimum, mean or maximum extent for 18 years.

https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/N_seaice_extent_daily_v3.0.csv

The press says climate skeptics are getting millions of dollars to discredit the consensus, while having to self-fund themselves out of their own pockets.

“Much of his government funding has dried up. He has had to put his own money, more than $100,000, into keeping his research going. He feels intellectually abandoned. If none of his colleagues comes to his funeral, he says, that’ll be evidence that he had the courage to say what they were afraid to admit.”

“Since the late 1980s, when oil, gas, coal, auto and chemical companies formed the Global Climate Coalition, industries have poured millions of dollars into a campaign to discredit the emerging global warming consensus.”

Hurricane expert Gray, others insist: Talk about global warming is a hoax

“A study by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) reported that global investment in climate change plateaued at USD $359 billion in 2012”