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Our friends have become quite focused on one particular aspect of Arctic ice – the September minimum. The claimed rationale is that it affects the Earth’s energy balance, by reducing albedo.

That argument is very weak – because very little sunshine reaches the Arctic atmosphere in September. Most of that is reflected by clouds, and the light which does get through is mainly reflected off the water surface, due to the high angle of incidence.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/EnergyBalance/page3.php

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R.T Jones says “Climate Change Deniers Should Be Blown To Bits!”

Instead of “Climate Change Deniers” what if he had said :
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Julienne Stroeve from NSIDC has been very busy this week, but is looking in to the disappearing MYI issue for us :

Steve, I will try to take a look later today.  I know that open water developed later this summer near the pole so that could partly explain it.  The old ice also became quite a bit thinner after the 2007 melt season so that is likely contributing as well.  Note also that more “purple” appeared in the blue areas so it wasn’t just the ice older than 2 years, but also the 2 year old ice that was reduced….

I also have an email to Jim Maslanik about it, but he is out of town at the moment (back on the weekend).

JAXA shows record fast early-season ice growth. DMI showed the coldest summer on record near the pole. Buoy data says temperatures have been below freezing near the pole almost continuously since the end of July.

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Since mid-September, JAXA ice extent has gained more than one million km²  That is more than 18,000 Manhattans, or one new Manhattan of ice forming every minute and a half. This is the fastest gain for the period in the JAXA record.

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Mao, Stalin and some other well known people  thought so.

When Herod realised that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under

Russia has been experimenting with climate modification for decades, so Mother Nature got really pissed off at them this past summer. But how did their efforts work out last winter?

Moscow Testing Cloud Seeding; Promises Winter Without Snow

Posted by Jay Michaels on 10/19/09 • Categorized as Offbeat, Weather Technology

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“Texas temperatures are going up pretty much like the earth’s temperatures are,”
– Gerald North, professor of atmospheric sciences and oceanography.

Since Texas summer and annual temperatures have not warmed, that means we can put the AGW story to bed.

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Reader Peter Ellis is not convinced. The animation below circulates between three images – end of July ice age/end of September ice age/UIUC ice concentration on the date of the minimum. The images are already normalised for drift. The ice in that region was close to 100% concentration all summer.

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