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Arctic sea ice volume is fifth highest for the date since 2003, and likely to move into the #3 spot tomorrow. Melt this season has been the slowest on record.

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But here is the really bad news for alarmists. In order to have any hope of a big melt in August, there would have to be lots of warm air and sunshine over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.  But the cold air has shifted away from the North Pole and over the western Arctic. Cold air covers the region which Arctic alarmists need to melt.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Climate Reanalyzer

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Nothing but cold in the forecast.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

Arctic summers have been running consistently below normal temperatures over the past decade, which is causing the ice volume to expand. Summer is the only time when the air is warm enough to melt ice.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

But winters have been getting less cold in the Arctic over the past 20 years..  This is due to large dips in the jet stream, which are bringing cold air south and thus increasing snow cover.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

These same dips bring milder air from the mid-latitudes north.  If it is snowing in Florida, that means the Florida warmth has been displaced by Arctic air, and conversely Arctic air has been displaced by Florida air.  Conservation of mass and heat are two concepts which climate experts appear to be unfamiliar with.

The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends – The Washington Post

Climate experts believe the greenhouse effect is making Arctic winters warmer, even though there is no sunshine in the Arctic in winter – making a greenhouse effect impossible.

It is difficult to imagine people stupider than climate scientists, but then there are those who blindly follow them.

Steve Goddard on Twitter: “Democrats believe the key to protecting free speech is to destroy it”

On June 28, Denver was just as hot as August 8, 1878.  Angela Fritz at the Capital Weather Gang  described it as an “epic heatwave.”

Denver just tied its all-time temperature record. This heat wave is just getting started. – The Washington Post

We have been quite cool the last few weeks, but during June and July, Boulder maximum temperatures averaged 87 degrees, three degrees cooler than 1954. There were no days over 100 degrees, compared to six in 1954 – when temperatures climbed to 104 degrees twice.

For the entire United States Historical Climatology Network, there have been no all-time record highs this summer, and a well below average number of daily record maximums.

The number of days over 95 degrees has been below average, and has been trending downwards sharply for a century.

The average summer maximum temperature this year has been just above average for the past century.

Hardly an epic heatwave. It would be nice to see some accurate reporting, but that isn’t in the Washington Post playbook.

In 1933, the progressive Lincoln Journal enthusiastically endorsed Roosevelt, Hitler and Mussolini.

31 Dec 1933, 35 – The Lincoln Star at Newspapers.com

In 2016 they enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton is best qualified by experience and temperament to be the country’s next president. Clinton has a spectacular resume of public service that includes stints in the U.S. Senate and as Secretary of State in the Obama administration. She’s been impressive.

Editorial, 10/23: Clinton is best choice for president | News | journalstar.com

09 Sep 1935, 10 – The Missoulian at Newspapers.com

11 Oct 1933, Page 6 – Medford Mail Tribune at Newspapers.com

The progressives are returning to their 1930’s roots.

Steve Goddard on Twitter: “Censorship has always been a fundamental principle at the root of all progressive movements.”

August 6th afternoon temperatures have plummeted in the US over the past century. August 6th, 1918 tied for the hottest day on record in Maryland at 109 degrees. One third of the US was over 100 degrees that day, and more than one half of the US was over 95 degrees.

On August 6th, 1930 more than two-thirds of the US was over 90 degrees.

The average afternoon temperature that day was 93 degrees.

Prior to 50 years ago, there were many spectacular heatwaves on August 6th.

On August 6th, 1947 there were temperatures well over 100 degrees reported in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

August 6th afternoon temperatures have dropped four degrees since 1900 at Cheboygan, Michigan. On this date in 1947 it was 104 degrees there. Today’s forecast is 26 degrees cooler.

Summer is just about over in the Arctic, and Arctic sea ice volume is fifth highest for the date since 2003.

The total ice loss since the winter peak, has been the lowest in the Danish Meteorological Institute record.

Spreadsheet    Data

With lots of cold in the forecast, things aren’t looking good for people who make their living by lying about Arctic melting.

10-Day Temperature Outlook

A 100% consensus of socialists.

Albert von Brunn: Review of ‘100 Authors against Einstein’ [March 13, 1931] | SpringerLink

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

George Orwell

28 Aug 1933, 3 – The Baltimore Sun at Newspapers.com

So far this year, US forest fire burn acreage has been 42% of the 1926-2018 average, and is down more than 90% from the 1930 peak.

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The summer of 1930 was extremely hot and dry, so no surprise they had  a lot of forest fires.

04 Aug 1930, Page 1 – Moberly Monitor-Index at Newspapers.com

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And of course the fraudsters at the Union of Concerned Communists claim the exact opposite of what the data shows.

Is Global Warming Fueling Increased Wildfire Risks? | Union of Concerned Scientists