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Fifty years ago National Geographic published this map of Arctic sea ice.

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This is the current map from DMI.

There is more ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas now and less in the East Siberian Sea

The 1985 DOE report showed that ice extent in 1971 was about 10% higher than 1960.

Projecting the climatic effects of increasing carbon dioxide 

In 1958 the New York Times reported rapidly melting ice and predicted an ice-free Arctic in a generation. They said the ice was two meters thick.

The Changing Face of the Arctic; The Changing Face of the Arctic – The New York Times

The ice is currently about two meters thick.

I’ve been critical of the Biden Administration for failing to reduce CO2.

Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

But they are finally making progress now, by shutting down the CO2 supply needed to produce food.

8:45 AM · Sep 17, 2021

Their successful policy of shutting down the energy supply made this possible.

Gas Station Price Charts – Local & National Historical Average Trends – GasBuddy.com

This fulfills Obama’s promise from 2008.

Meanwhile, Democrats tell us it is racist to require ID to vote.

Voter ID Laws: A Way to Suppress the Vote | The Berkeley School

But it isn’t racist to require ID for living, eating or working.

10:06 AM · Sep 15, 2021

Ninety years ago today

18 Sep 1931, 3 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com

h/t Don Penim

21 Aug 1931 – 30 MILLIONS HUNGRY – Trove

24 Aug 1931, Page 1 – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

The Top 5 Deadliest Floods in History

At the same time, people were starving in the US from the drought.

20 Jan 1931 – STARVATION IN U.S.A. – Trove

20 Feb 1931, Page 13 – Dunkirk Evening Observer at Newspapers.com

National Interagency Fire Center
National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center

09 Dec 1931 – ‘FLU, HEAT TOLL – Trove

World Meteorological Organization’s World Weather & Climate Extremes Archive

During the first sixteen days of September, Arctic sea ice extent increased by a record amount.

ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p1/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt

Extent is up 27% since this date last year.

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There has been no trend in minimum sea ice extent over the past fifteen years.

Sea ice extent in the western Arctic is higher than 40 years ago.

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Experts say sea ice is melting at a record rate and it causing all sorts of bad weather.

Sea ice is melting at record-breaking rates

The claims of record melt this year have nothing to do with reality, but the ones in 1911 were more accurate.

“Reports from Baffin Bay and the other waters around Greenland also – tell of an unprecedented melting of the arctic ice fields. It is probable that an arctic explorer had happened to be in the far north this summer he, would have been able to get fairly close to the Pole in boats. Some say that the melting of the arctic ice cap is one of the direct results of the abnormally hot weather this summer, while others hold that the hot weather is the result of the melting lee and the release of an unusual amount of heat from the warmer ocean water. Thus it Is the same old question as to which is the cause and which the effect. Astronomers studying the planet Mars have noted an unusual melting of the ice- cap on that planet”

17 Sep 1911, Page 6 – The Atlanta Constitution at Newspapers.com

h/t Don Penim

NASA says 1911 was one of the coldest years on record.

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Wyoming is the least vaccinated state and cases are dropping off sharply. Vermont is the most vaccinated state, and cases are skyrocketing to record highs.

COVID-19

Vermont COVID: 30,922 Cases and 294 Deaths – Worldometer

3:40 AM · Sep 16, 2021