GISS shows that Danmarkshavn, Greenland warmed almost 1ºC in 2010. They must be soothsayers, because three of the coldest months of the year have not yet been recorded.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/

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Video of ice movement since September 18

During the winter of 2007-2008, a lot of multi-year ice (MYI) blew out into the North Atlantic and melted. Right now, the Arctic has nearly as much area of MYI as it did in 1995.

The image below was modified from the original NSIDC image to account for the recent Arctic ice birthday.

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USHCN mean temperature

From the looks of the USHCN graph above, you would think that temperatures at Long Beach, Washington were getting a lot warmer. More than a degree warmer since 1950.

Whether or not the temperatures are getting warmer, one thing for sure, the trend we see is due to adjustments. The plot below shows USHCN final temperatures minus measured  temperatures.

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Mt Rainier – Seattle’s doom

It is worse than we thought. Marc Morano sent this over :

A warming world could leave cities flattened

Over the last decade, rock avalanches and landslides have become more common in high mountain ranges, apparently coinciding with the increase in exceptionally warm periods The collapses are triggered by melting glaciers and permafrost, which remove the glue that holds steep mountain slopes together.

Worse may be to come. Thinning glaciers on volcanoes could destabilise vast chunks of their summit cones, triggering mega-landslides capable of flattening cities such as Seattle and devastating local infrastructure.

Telephoto lenses are great. Mt Rainier is three miles high and seventy-four miles away from Seattle. That is going to be one heck of a landslide.

And one more minor problem …..

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GISS is still showing 2010 as hotter than 2005 or 1998. They list 2005 as the current hottest year, and 2010 is well ahead.

Sadly, the comments are being taken over by spamsters.

New policy is, unless they are directly addressing the points of the article in question. our friends are limited to one ad hom off topic post per thread. I will delete all subsequent spam posts.

I forecast a large drop in the UAH channel 5 anomaly this month, down to 0.35. This is based on daily temperatures for the first half of the month.