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The press is reporting this week that Arctic is hot and sea ice is at a record low.

Meanwhile, actual Arctic sea ice extent is the highest for the date in five years.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

The ice edge is very close to the 1981-2010 median.

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Ice growth since November 1 has been the third highest on record.

NOAA/G02186/masie_4km_allyears_extent_sqkm.csv

For the third year out of the past four, the Greenland surface mass balance has been average or above average.

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2017      2018      2019     2020

Temperatures in the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet have been averaging around -40 degrees over the past month.

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Climate alarmists believe the Arctic is hot and melting, and they also believe Arctic air is extremely cold. Classic Orwellian doublethink.

This week in 1984, a massive snowstorm hit the California desert, and a wintertime hurricane formed in the Atlantic.

21 Dec 1984, Page 43 – The Times at Newspapers.com

21 Dec 1984, 9 – The Daily Review at Newspapers.com

The southeastern US was very warm that week, and western US cold.

Almost identical to the pattern on the same date in 1933.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has determined that a drought in Africa is the worst in century, and they know this because a guy in his 30s who sells tourist handicrafts told them so.

Victoria Falls slows to a trickle, fuelling fears of climate change – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Here is the same story from 1950.

08 Feb 1950, 5 – Sioux City Journal at Newspapers.com

h/t Steve Milloy

This actually happens every year this time of year.

Drought, Heat, and Victoria Falls: A Climate Story with a Twist | Weather Underground

River Flows | Zambezi River Authority

Apparently 1992 may also have been more than a century ago.

02 Sep 1992, 17 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com

Africa also had their worst drought in century in 1966, during the ice age scare.

20 Jan 1966, 12 – The Daily News-Journal at Newspapers.com

Experts predict 50C temperatures in Australia, due to increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Australia reached 51C in 1906.

Not surprisingly, BOM hides all of the hot weather before 1910.

Climate change and variability: Tracker: Australian timeseries graphs

One of the hottest days on record in Australia was January 7, 1906.

08 Jan 1906 – THE HEAT WAVE – Trove

08 Jan 1906 – EXTENSIVE HEAT WAVE. – Trove

This was near the end of 15 years of the Federation drought.

03 Mar 1906 – The Capricornian. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1906. – Trove

30 Nov 1899 – DROUGHT IN QUEENSLAND. – Trove

Drought of 1891 to 1903 reconstructed shows today’s conditions likely to have more devastating effects – ABC Rural – ABC News

There was also a tremendous drought in Europe at that time.

17 May 1893 – GREAT DROUGHT IN EUROPE. – Trove

And in the US.

Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle – Google News Archive Search

Minnesota also had some of their worst fires that decade.

08 May 1890, 6 – Minneapolis Messenger at Newspapers.com

The New York Times described the the January, 1896 heatwave in Australia as the hottest of hot waves on record.

TimesMachine: August 18, 1896

09 Jan 1896, Page 5 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

23 Jan 1896 – THE HEAT WAVE. – Trove

24 Jan 1896, Page 5 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com

The year 1896 brought record heat all around the world, including Arizona’s longest spell over 120F.

India was 51C.

08 Jan 1896 – HOT WEATHER. – Trove

Europe

18 Jul 1896 – Great Heat in Europe. – Trove

17 Jul 1896 – HEAT-WAVE IN EUROPE.

New York

1896 Heatwave

28 May 1896, 4 – Ironton County Register at Newspapers.com

National Geographic reported that Alaska’s largest glacier retreated 40 miles by 1896.

The National Geographic Archive | April 1896 | page 1

The Bureau of Meteorology used to have this web page describing the world’s record heatwave in 1923, and 50C temperatures in 1960 and 1998.

30 Mar 2009 – BOM – Australian Climate Extremes – Trove

They have since hidden this page.

Bureau of Meteorology – The page you requested was not found on this server

BOM’s excuse for hiding huge temperature anomalies before 1910, is that they claim the thermometers back then read about one degree too high.