Ten years ago today, the Catlin Arctic Survey was in the Arctic to document the demise of sea ice, but they were held up by cold weather.
Resolute Resignation | Catlin Arctic Survey
Arctic sea ice extent is almost identical this year to ten years ago.
Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
In 1969, the Canadian Government said :
“Officials said recently the exact route will depend on ice conditions at the time. The Northwest Passage is open normally no more than two months in the year, but sometimes four months.”
Ten years ago, the Irish Times reported that China’s five year plan would reduce “carbon intensity” by 16 percent, and that the US was “falling behind.”
Move to put climate change back on agenda
Since then, Chinese CO2 emissions have skyrocketed while US emissions have continued their fifteen year decline.
“Indeed, 2010 was officially one of the hottest years on record, with heatwaves, floods, landslides, forest fires and other “extreme weather events”.
“UN climate chief Christiana Figueres insisted that Cancún was “a solid step forward for strengthened global climate action”, and she has called on governments to “maintain momentum” in the run-up to Durban.”
Nothing that these people are doing is having any impact on CO2 emissions or climate.
Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases
Australia is almost always experiencing drought or flood. Many years they experienced both.
“Although New South Wales is not subject to the periodical showers of the tropics, a large quantity of rain falls throughout the year; hitherto the colony has been visited by a drought about every twelve years; the last one continuing from 1826 to 1829, during which period, little or no rain fell”
p6 – 26 Oct 1837 – The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 – 1840) – Trove
08 May 1869 – AUSTRALIAN METEOROLOGY. – Trove
“1850 was all but rainless. Victoria and Tasmania were dried up, and on Black Thursday, 6th February,. 1851, the Barrabool Hills and great part of Victoria were swept by a fierce northern hurricane that “boxed” the scattered bush fires into one awful whole.”
19 Aug 1882 – DROUGHTS. – Trove
04 Jul 1826, 2 – The Morning Chronicle at Newspapers.com
07 Sep 1827, 3 – The Village Messenger at Newspapers.com
10 Aug 1827, 4 – New England Farmer at Newspapers.com
“Although New South Wales is not subject to the periodical showers of the tropics, a large quantity of rain falls throughout the year; hitherto the colony has been visited by a drought about every twelve years; the last one continuing from 1826 to 1829, during which period, little or no rain fell”
p6 – 26 Oct 1837 – The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 – 1840) – Trove
“From 1826 to 1829 wail the very worst and the longest of all Australian droughts.”
NASA GISS v4 shows more than 2C warming over land since 1880.
A different version of the same V4 graph also shows about 1.6C warming over land since 1880. This graph used to be linked to from their website, but I can no longer find any links. However the graph is still present on their website.
The red lines in both of the graphs above should be identical, but they aren’t. Here is an animation showing how they are altering the land data in the new graph vs. the old graph. They have increased recent temperatures by about 0.3C and cooled past temperatures by about the same amount.
2001: Fig.A.ps
The person in charge at NASA (Gavin Schmidt) has me blocked on Twitter, but Tom Nelson questioned him about this change. This is how he responded.
He does tweet in a colorful mask however.
But the data tampering story gets much worse. In 1974, the National Center for Atmospheric Research showed no net warming from 1870 to 1970, with the warmest decade being the 1940s, followed by a sharp cooling.
21 Jul 1974, 13 – The Des Moines Register at Newspapers.com
This cooling was confirmed in NOAA Magazine October, 1974
In 1978, the New York Times confirmed the cooling trend was continuing.
But NASA has since erased the post-1940 cooling.
In this Climategate email, climate scientists from different agencies discussed their desire to remove the 1940s warmth.
In 1981, NASA did show a 1940s blip followed by 0.3C cooling. They also showed a Medieval Warm Period and a Holocene Optimum.
Michael Mann later erased the Medieval Warm Period.
And the post 1940s cooling has since been erased by NASA.
As of the year 2000, NASA showed no net warming from 1870 to 1979, with 1878 being the warmest year.
But they now hide data before 1880, and show about 0.7C warming prior to 1980
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/history/output/met_used.zip
This animation shows how they have altered the data
The 1878 warmth is important because the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation peaked in 1878, and produced record warmth and global drought.
Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs
There was no winter in Minnesota that year.
19 Mar 1878, Page 2 – Star Tribune at Newspapers.com
Australia had record heat.
14 Jan 1878 – Great Heat in the Interior. – Trove
China had a famine which killed nearly ten million people.
15 Jun 1931, Page 6 – Montana Butte Standard at Newspapers.com
And there was universal drought.
28 Jan 1878 – UNIVERSAL DROUGHT. – Trove
29 Jan 1878, Page 7 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com
31 Jan 1878, Page 7 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com
24 Jan 1878, Page 7 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com
02 Mar 1878, 6 – Daily News at Newspapers.com
07 Jun 1878, Page 7 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com
12 Jun 1877, 4 – Express and Standard at Newspapers.com
This didn’t suit the agenda of climate alarmists, so Michael Mann is now trying to erase the AMO.
The Rise and Fall of the “Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation” | MICHAEL E. MANN
