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Temperatures have been running far below normal for more than three weeks.

The blink comparator overlays the NSIDC mid-September ice age map on the most recent PIPS map. As you can see, the thick green PIPS areas correspond well with multi-year ice. The ice has moved some over the last three months, so it is not an exact match.

Yes, there is a lot more old, thick ice than there was two years ago.

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Including one in 1931 that killed 145,000 people. CO2 was 310 ppm at the time, well below Hansen’s safe level of 350.

Yangtze River, China
1931
Death Toll: 145,000

Although the Huang He has caused more deaths, the Yangtze has had more than 1,000 recorded floods.

http://www.epicdisasters.com/index.php/site/comments/the_worlds_worst_floods_by_death_toll/

TRENTON — Three Rutgers University scientists came to Trenton today to give Gov. Chris Christie a message: climate change is real, and it’s man-made.

“I’ve heard over 100 different arguments about why we shouldn’t accept global warming. They’re all fallacious and I’d be happy to point out the errors in any of them,” said Rutgers professor Alan Robock, a meteorologist.

Paul Falkowski, director of the Rutgers University Energy Institute, said global warming doubts are based on politics and personal beliefs, not science.

“There is no honest argument against human climate change. The issues now rely primarily on political dialogue on how we’re going to move this country forward,” he said.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/rutgers_scientists_invite_gov.html

Romm reports :

The Navy’s operational ice forecast system shows that his statement (as reported by Romm) is probably incorrect. Arctic Ice is thicker now than it was two years ago.

Warmer and Wetter Winters in Europe and Western North America Linked to Increasing Greenhouse Gases

June 2, 1999

Why are winters warming up so much faster over Northern Hemisphere continents than over the rest of the globe? A new study by NASA researchers in the June 3 issue of the journal Nature is the first to link the well-documented large degree of North America and Eurasia winter warming and the associated wind changes to rising greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.

Using a computer climate model to try and understand where the warming over the past three decades is coming from, Shindell and colleagues discovered that in the model, increasing greenhouse gases cause stronger spiraling winds over the North Pole, a phenomenon called the polar vortex, that change the normal Northern Hemisphere climate. “Northern Hemisphere winters have been warming up for the past 30 years,” Shindell said. “It’s a big concern to know why this happens.”

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/19990602/

Since this report came out – definitively tying winter warming to CO2, winter temperatures have plummeted in Europe and Western North America – while CO2 levels have continued to increase.

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Obama Warns Of ‘Sputnik Moment,’ Calls For Greater Focus On Education And Innovation

Staff | Monday, December 6, 2010 at 3:58PM | Share Article | Email Article | Print Article

President Barack Obama delivered the following remarks Monday:

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you so much.  Thank you, everybody.  (Applause.)  Thank you so much.  Thank you so much.  Please, everybody have a seat, have a seat.  It is good to be back in North Carolina.  (Applause.)  Love North Carolina.  Although, I have to say, I came down here for slightly warmer weather.  (Laughter.)  What’s snow doing on the ground in North Carolina?  (Laughter.) Come on, now.  Anyway, it is a great honor to be with you here at Forsyth Technical Community College.

h/t to Marc Morano

Ice greater than 2.5 metres thick has more than doubled in area since the same date in 2008.

http://www.environbusiness.com/CChange/CC_eff_inf.html

Increasing river flow into lakes causes the water level to decline. Brilliant.

http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/42618/major-snowstorm-could-hit-the.asp

http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=snow