Real Climate Science

Perhaps NOAA is tired of people being able to access untampered temperature data, and have blocked access to their public ftp site. They want a private connection to a public (pub) web page.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/

Hopefully this is a temporary situation.

Climate Central says North American snow cover is on the decline, and it is due in part to winter precipitation falling as rain rather than snow. They say their data comes from Rutgers University.

Snow Cover on the Decline in North America | Climate Central

The actual data from Rutgers University shows 50 years of increasing winter snow extent. Climate Central is simply making things up – like they normally do.

NorAm Winter

Same story with Autumn snow cover. Last year had the highest extent on record.

NorAm Fall

The only season which has a downwards trend is spring, but six of the last nine springs have had above average extent.

NorAm Spring

The complete data set from Reuters shows that snow extent has been increasing since CO2 hit 350 PPM in 1988, and has been continuously above average for the past few years.

Snow Anomalies

The Rutgers data for North America shows no trend since 1973, the date which Climate Central used for their trend.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Last ski season produced record skiing in the US and Europe

Record Winter Snow Extends Epic Ski Season Into Spring – And Summer

Arizona had their snowiest day on record earlier this year.

State of Emergency in Flagstaff after snowiest day on record | 12news.com

A look back at Colorado’s record-breaking ski season | Colorado Springs News | gazette.com

Record snowfall lures 59m skiers to US resorts in bumper season

California’s prolific winter has ski resorts poised to remain open into summer Still less than halfway through the season, some California ski resorts already surpassed their average seasonal snowfall. | AccuWeather

Arizona had their longest ski season on record.

It’s gonna be May. – Arizona Snowbowl

2017 also brought record skiing to California.

I took these pictures on the first day of summer this year west of Boulder.

We had record snow in October, after a very short summer.

4 feet of snow sets record at Breckenridge Ski Resort | OutThere Colorado

Yesterday may have been the snowiest day on record in Boulder. It might be days before I can get to the store. Cycling looks hopeless for the indefinite future.

After their longest ski season on record, Arizona is having record early season skiing.

This is what New Mexico and Arizona looked like around New Years Day this year.

County, lab, others closed Wednesday for storm dig out | LAMonitor.com

I spent last spring in record snow in Philadelphia, and took this picture at the end of March, 2018.

Climate scientists predicted the exact opposite of what has happened, and having gotten it wrong, they simply lie about the present.

13 Dec 1995, Page 13 – The Times at Newspapers.com

18 Sep 1999, Page 3 – The Times Herald at Newspapers.com

03 Dec 2003, 1 – Nanaimo Daily News at Newspapers.com

17 Feb 2006, Page A21 – The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com

Study: Climate change may force skiers uphill | Aspen Daily News Online

Climate change scenarios for the California region | SpringerLink

The skill and integrity of climate scientists is abysmal. But to finish on a more positive note – I saw a lot of amazing sights in the Sonoran Desert on New Years Day.

Leonardo DiCaprio and WWF sent large amounts of money to organizations which earned their living by starting fires and then selling pictures of the fires.

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In a December 2018 article, NASA claimed that Arctic sea ice had lost two-thirds of its thickness since 1958.

Wintertime Arctic sea ice growth slows long-term decline: NASA – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

That claim is simple enough to check out.  In 1958, Arctic sea ice was 7 feet, or two meters thick. Scientists were forecasting an ice-free Arctic within a generation.

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

On the date of the NASA article, Arctic sea ice also averaged about two meters thick – indicating little or no change since 1958.

CICE_combine_thick_SM_EN_20181206.png (758×631)

In the 1985 DOE Report, Vinnikov showed that Arctic sea ice declined sharply until the century low in the mid-1950s, and then started to increase again.

Projecting the climatic effects of increasing carbon dioxide 

Vinnikov extended his numbers in the 1990 IPCC report.

1990 IPCC Report

This chart combines the 1985 and 1990 Vinnikov graphs.

The decline in Arctic sea ice from the 1920s until the 1950s was widely reported.

07 Apr 1923 – NORTH POLE MELTING. – Trove

17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier at Newspapers.com

29 Sep 1939 – What is The World Coming To? – Trove

13 Oct 1940, Page 76 – Hartford Courant at Newspapers.com

31 May 1947 – MELTING ICE CAP DANGER – Trove

18 Feb 1952 – Melting Icecaps Mystery – Trove

The subsequent cooling and increase in sea ice after after the 1950s, was also widely reported.

January 30, 1961 – NYTimes

18 Jul 1963 – Glaciers Grow In Norway

U.S. and Soviet Press Studies of a Colder Arctic – The New York Times

14 Apr 1973, Page 8 – Iowa City Press-Citizen

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere

By WALTER SULLIVAN JAN. 5, 1978

A gradual increase in area of the northern circumpolar vortex, the massive flow of frigid air around the Arctic, has been recorded by Drs. Angell and Korshover. In 1976 its southern’ extent was the greatest in 10 years and last winter it was 1 percent larger than in any previous winter observed.

Snow and ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere have varied greatly but there has been a net increase according to a satellite photograph analysis by Dr George J. Kukla of Columbia University’s Lamont?Doherty Geological Observatory. This has been most marked in the spring when so highly reflective a cover returns much solar energy into space at a time of intense solar radiation.

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – The New York Times

Arctic sea ice growth over the past month has been second fastest in the MASIE recard – just behind  last year.

masie_4km_allyears_extent_sqkm.csv

It appears that NASA simply made up the 1958 number, and assumed that no one would do any fact checking.