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Desperate conditions today in the Maldives.

Live Cam Kuredu Island Resort

The Maldives, which experts predicted would disappear beneath the seas last year, is going to drown again.  And the picture below proves it.

Rising sea levels could make thousands of islands from the Maldives to Hawaii ‘uninhabitable within decades’ | The Independent

They just can’t get a break from the experts!

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands

To make matters worse, the Maldives also drowned in 1837.

ACCOUNT OF THE MALDIVES.

Hobart Town Courier   Friday 17 February 1837, page 4

The natives observe the atolls to be wasting away; in some the cocoanut trees are standing in the water ; in another the black soil of the island is discernible at low water thirty feet from the beach ; the south-east side of an island in Phaidee Pholo Atoll is entirely gone, but is marked by a banyan tree in the water. They say that some islands have disappeared entirely

17 Feb 1837 – ACCOUNT OF THE MALDIVES. – Trove

Arctic sea ice extent is the highest in years, with rapid growth and extent “normal” everywhere except the Bering Sea.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Index of /DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/images/2019/

Meanwhile, climate experts seek high-tech solutions to the non-existent meltdown.

This is what Glacier National Park looks like today. Trees are disappearing under the snow in the record cold.

Logan Pass – South View Webcam (U.S. National Park Service)

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Experts tell us the park will be ice-free by 1948, 2002, 2020 and 2044.

29 Dec 1923, Page 5 – at Newspapers.com

05 Mar 1952, Page 1 – The Post-Standard at Newspapers.com

No More Glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2020?

Climate Change Threatens to Strip the Identity of Glacier National Park – The New York Times

Meanwhile, the Maldives – which experts say will be underwater by 2018.

Live Cam Kuredu Island Resort

26 Sep 1988 – Threat to islands

To be fair to the climate experts, the Maldives are ice-free, just as they predicted.

Most years the ice and geese are long gone by now – but not this year. We don’t seem to be making any progress towards spring.

Marc Morano, Chris Horner, Me, Steve Milloy

Chris Horner has scored a a big win for shutting down Michael Bloomberg’s attempts to hijack democracy.

So far, this February has been the second coldest on record in North Dakota, with afternoon maximums averaging 3F (-16C.)  The frequency of nights below 0F (-18C) has been the highest.

Lots more record cold in the forecast.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

The coldest February was 1936, which had similar weather patterns – except for southwest which was mild that year.

ftp://ftp.library.noaa.gov/docs.lib/htdocs/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-02-c1.pdf

Someone left this comment on the blog earlier today :

The author states but doesn’t prove that “The reality is that there is no legitimate evidence extreme weather is increasing or sea level rise is accelerating.” His graph (% day above 90F) doesn’t show the data for % day above 95F or 105F, or something else. What if the % of day above 95F would show an upward trend? His example is not enough to convince me that he hasn’t engaged in cherry picking.

February 22, 2019 at 11:16 pm

While possible mathematically, it is difficult to imagine how (in the real world) you could have fewer 90 degree days, and more 95 degree days. In fact, the same downwards trend is seen for 80, 85, 90, 95, 100 and 105 degree days.

Spreadsheet

The US used to be much hotter and drier, which was why millions of people fled the Great Plains and moved to California during the 1930s. At one time, California was a great place to live.