Real Climate Science

My traffic was way up overnight. Turns out a web forum in Germany has attracted lots of people who don’t understand the difference between glacial ice and sea ice. Is it a language problem or just plain AGW Dummheit?

It appears that the JAXA extent graph has bottomed out. If so, the melt season (date of the minimum minus the date of the maximum) in 2010 was the shortest in their eight year record, at 163 days. The previous record was 181 days in 2003. The longest melt season was 2005, at 200 days.

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The blink comparator shows changes in the ice near the North Pole at 87.5N 168.0E over the last four days. As you can see, all of the open water has frozen over. This causes area measurements to increase.

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We can’t definitively link today’s heavy rain at Flushing Meadows with climate change, but we do expect more postponement of tennis tournament finals in the future – as atmospheric CO2 increases.

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Following up on some work done by Roger Pielke Sr., I downloaded the UIUC Arctic data set and calculated the length of the melt season (date of minimum area minus date of maximum area) for each year of the satellite record.

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New ice is forming around the iceberg which broke off the Petermann Glacier last month. The entire region is also covered with fresh snow.

Temperatures in the region are running below -5ºC.

Santa’s Workshop is looking cold and dark

After a month of above normal temperatures, the weather has turned cold in the high Arctic again. Temperatures north of 80N have dropped to about -5ºC, which is near normal.

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I’m betting on Spain to continue their unprecedented dominance of international sport this afternoon.

Hypochondria is an obsessive compulsive disorder where every real or imagined symptom is believed to be a sign of disease. Some people suffer a parallel condition with respect to the weather. Every hot,, cold, mild, sunny, cloudy, rainy, dry or windy day is viewed as a sign of a sick climate, infected with man made carbon dioxide.

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Benjamin Franklin wrote:

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

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