Real Climate Science

Image :  from The Age

According to DMI :

The world’s highest wave

In 1933 was the steamship Ramapo on its way across the Pacific from Manila to San Diego, with a wind at 30 m / s in the back. After a week the waves reached up to 15 meters. Suddenly the ship was hit from behind, sank into a deep trough and rode with stern first up over a mountain of foam. The duty officer assessed by triangulation against the mast top wave height to 100 feet (34 meters), measured from crest to trough of the sea. This monster wave or freak wave is the highest wave ever reliably observed.

Total ice extent is lower than 2006, due to persistent southerly winds which have been pushing the ice towards the poles and melting out the thinner ice.

2006                                                            2010

We are told though that the true measure of ice “health” is the thickness of the ice. 2006 had a lot more thin ice (less than 1.5 metres) in September, but the total amount of thicker ice (greater than 2 metres) was similar.

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From The Daily Mail

Global warming will mean that the Arctic ice will no longer completely refreeze, allowing traffic to pass through for the first time.

That is rather far fetched. Winter temperatures in the Arctic Basin average close to minus 30ºC. Water freezes very fast at that temperature.

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The BBC reports :

Climate change is not responsible for civil wars in Africa, a study suggests.

It challenges previous assumptions that environmental disasters, such as drought and prolonged heat waves, had played a part in triggering unrest. Instead, it says, traditional factors – such as poverty and social tensions – were often the main factors behind the outbreak of conflicts. The findings have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the United States.

Nature article here:

Element number 6 has been unofficially renamed from C to G. People now use the words “Carbon” and “Global warming” interchangeably, so it makes sense.

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‘Many structures’ destroyed in Boulder Co. fire; 200 homes evacuated

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. – More than 200 homes were evacuated in the foothills west of Boulder as a wind-fueled wildfire burned out of control Monday.

The “Fourmile Canyon Fire” was estimated at 2,200 acres as of 3 p.m. Homes within a four-mile radius around the town of Gold Hill were under mandatory evacuation orders.

There may be a correlation between ice extent loss in the Arctic and ice extent gain in the Antarctic.

Arctic in red. Antarctic in green

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We had 45 mph tropical storm force gusts of wind this morning, and I had the interesting experience of riding up into the foothills on grades as steep as 20% – directly into wind. There were a few times when I was barely able to keep the bike moving forwards, standing up, in the lowest gear.

Going across the top of the hogback, I was getting blown around like a rag doll. But coming back was a blast – with a 20 mph wind at my back the entire way.

Afternoon update. There are wind driven fires burning all over the Front Range this afternoon.

Check it out. There is a link right below Toto
https://realclimatescience.com/maps-and-graphs/

Russia is finishing up its record heatwave summer with some sub-zero (C) temperatures in the north.

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