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Twenty one years ago, the New York Times announced that the North Pole was ice-free for the first time in fifty million years.

“The North Pole is melting.

The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate.

The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago.”

Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find – The New York Times

The North Pole was ice-free in 1958.

Also in 1958, the New York Times reported that Arctic sea ice was two meters thick.

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

And now in 2021 Arctic sea ice is two meters thick.

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Fifteen years ago, Barack Obama said :

“Americans are fed up. They’re fed up with the war in Iraq, the federal deficit, illegal immigration, high gas prices, and the health care system, and it’s time for change”

Obama: Americans ready for change | News | thesouthern.com

And that laundry list was exactly what Obama and Biden gave the American people.

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

The Arctic saw a large amount of warming in the first half of the 20th century, and Greenland used to be much warmer.

02 Apr 1952, 35 – The Spokesman-Review at Newspapers.com

Ten years ago this week, Barbara Boxer said “climate regulations” were a life and death matter.

Sen. Boxer: Opponents of EPA Climate Regulations ‘Hurting the American People’ | CNSnews.com

She was correct, as people in Texas found out last month. Many froze to death because Texas invested in unreliable windmills instead of reliable fossil fuels.

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Ten years ago today, the Australian government’s climate advisor said there was no genuine scientific dissent.

Pell row with climate scientist heats up

Five years ago, USA Today and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado said that Arctic sea ice was at a record winter low and temperatures in the Arctic were 15F (9C) above normal. And they announced that it was due to global warming.

Arctic sea ice sets wintertime record low thanks to global warming

Five years later, Arctic sea ice is normal, and Antarctic sea ice is near a record high for the date.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

One hundred years ago, Arctic ocean temperatures were 23 degrees above normal, and the ocean around Svalbard never froze over.

03 Dec 1922, Page 63 – The Washington Times at Newspapers.com

There is currently lots of ice around Svalbard.

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And 6,000 years ago, the Arctic might have been ice-free.

Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago — ScienceDaily

The lack of knowledge about history by journalists and climate academics is not surprising to me, because I spend a lot time studying journalists and climate academics. They parrot the same nonsense over and over again.

Ten years ago this week, Julia Gilliard wanted to buy advertising for her carbon tax.

AM – Wheels rolling for climate change/carbon tax ads 18/03/2011

This came after she was elected by promising no carbon tax.

“There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”

I’ve spent thirteen years documenting how NASA’s James Hansen got everything wrong – and how he corrupted temperature data to cover it up. But he says he was correct about everything.

James Hansen wishes he wasn’t so right about global warming

I’m not going to detail his impressive list of failures here, but I am going to discuss the key failure which doomed all of his other predictions to failure as well. Central to his global warming theory is that a hot spot would appear in the lower troposphere near the equator. In 1985, he predicted 7C warming in the tropical troposphere hot spot.

https://doi.org/10.2172/5885458

It didn’t happen, and tropical troposphere temperatures measured by satellites are not much different than they were 40 years ago.

https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt

What actually controls variation in tropical troposphere temperatures are El Nino (warm) and La Nina (cold) events in the Pacific Ocean.

El Niño and La Niña Years and Intensities

This graph overlays the ENSO graph above in pink, on top of the satellite temperatures.  The correlation with ENSO is quite good, and it shows little or no correlation with CO2.

Hansen has no clue what he is talking about, but he also controlled the temperature data – so he was able to tamper with it to make it appear like he was correct.

NASA 1999

NASA 2019

Here is an animation showing how the data has been altered over the past 20 years.

“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.”

– Marcus Aurelius

In 1890, the New York Times reported that winters had gotten much warmer, and that “extreme changes of climate” were natural.

TimesMachine: June 23, 1890 – NYTimes.com

Ten years ago this week, Jay Inslee brought a “three-foot stack of scientific books” to a congressional global warming hearing and Democrats pitted “recognised climate scientists” vs. “three well-known climate sceptics”

Democrats roll out climate change big guns, Republicans remain immune | Climate change | The Guardian

Apparently no cherry-pick is below climate alarmist’s dignity.

“The scientists came armed with the latest evidence  ….

Knute Nadelhoffer, a University of Michigan professor, noted that Lake Superior had already warmed by 4.5F since 1979“

Lake Superior water temperatures are close to the long term average.

all_year_glsea_avg_s.pdf

January, 1979 was the coldest on record in the US.

The winters of 1977-1979 were among the five coldest on record in the Great Lakes States

Not surprisingly, Great Lakes ice cover was very high in 1977-1979. It was also very high in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 and this year (not shown on the graph) was close to average.

IceCover_avg_1973_2020.png (1951×755)

Jay Inslee compared Michael Mann to Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein.

“Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat, lamented on Tuesday that even if Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein were testifying, Republicans would still not accept the science until Antarctica had melted.”

Antarctic sea ice is currently near a record high for the date.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

These were the skeptics which the Democrats didn’t recognize as scientists.

John R. Christy, B.A. Mathematics, California State University (1973), M.S. Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois (1984), Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois (1987), NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1991), American Meteorological Society’s Special Award (1996), Member, Committee on Earth Studies, Space Studies Board (1998-2001), Alabama State Climatologist (2000-Present), Fellow, American Meteorological Society (2002), Panel Member, Official Statement on Climate Change, American Geophysical Union (2003), Member, Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization, Space Studies Board (2003-2004), Member, Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the last 2,000 years, National Research Council (2006), Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville (1991-Present), Director of the Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville (2000-Present), Contributor, IPCC (1992, 1994, 1996, 2007), Lead Author, IPCC (2001)

Patrick J. Michaels, A.B. Biological Sciences, University of Chicago (1971), S.M. Biology, University of Chicago (1975), Ph.D. Ecological Climatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1979), Research and Project Assistant, Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin (1976-1979), Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (1980-1986), Virginia State Climatologist (1980-2007), President, Central Virginia Chapter, American Meteorological Society (1986-1987), Executive Board, American Association of State Climatologists (1986-1989), Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (1986-1995), President, American Association of State Climatologists (1987-1988), Chair, Committee on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society (1988-1999), Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute (1992-Present), Visiting Scientist, Marshall Institute (1996-Present), Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member, Association of American Geographers, Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (1996-Present), Contributor and Expert Reviewer, IPCC (1990, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2007)

Richard S. Lindzen, A.B. Physics Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University (1960), S.M. Applied Mathematics, Harvard University (1961), Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Harvard University (1964), Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Washington (1964-1965), NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Meteorology, University of Oslo (1965-1966), Research Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (1966-1967), Visiting Lecturer in Meteorology, UCLA (1967), NCAR Outstanding Publication Award (1967), AMS Meisinger Award (1968), Associate Professor and Professor of Meteorology, University of Chicago (1968-1972), Summer Lecturer, NCAR Colloquium (1968, 1972, 1978), AGU Macelwane Award (1969), Visiting Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Tel Aviv University (1969), Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1970-1976), Gordon McKay Professor of Dynamic Meteorology, Harvard University (1972-1983), Visiting Professor of Dynamic Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975), Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Department of Meteorology, The Hebrew University (1979), Director, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University (1980-1983), Robert P. Burden Professor of Dynamical Meteorology, Harvard University (1982-1983), AMS Charney Award (1985), Vikram Amblal Sarabhai Professor, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India (1985), Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (1986-1987), Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (1988-Present), Sackler Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University (1992), Landsdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria (1993), Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer, American Meteorological Society (1997), Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, American Geophysical Union, Fellow, American Meteorological Society, Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Member, National Academy of Sciences, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983-Present), Lead Author, IPCC (2001)

Roy W. Spencer, B.S. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Michigan (1978), M.S. Meteorology, University of Wisconsin (1980), Ph.D. Meteorology, University of Wisconsin (1982), Research Scientist, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin (1982-1984), Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA (1984-2001), MSFC Center Director’s Commendation (1989), U.S. Team Leader, Multichannel Imaging Microwave Radiometer (MIMR) Team, NASA (1992-Present), Team Leader, AMSR-E Science Team, NASA (1994-Present), NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1991), American Meteorological Society’s Special Award (1996), Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville (2001-Present)

Democrats prefer to get their science from these experts.