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Andrew Freedman claims that Chesapeake Bay freezing (like it did in January) is becoming extremely rare due to global warming.

As the world warms, it’s making cold snaps like the recent one extremely rare    Jan 11, 2018

The first week of January was the coldest such week on record in most locations in the Eastern United States. It was so frigid that week, and the week preceding it, that sea ice formed around Cape Cod and Chesapeake Bay, sharks froze to death on Massachusetts beaches, and alligators went into a resting state while entombed in ice.

As the world warms, it’s making cold snaps like the recent one extremely rare

I took the dogs for a walk on frozen Chesapeake Bay on March 7, 2015.  Probably the first time that has happened in March since the 18th century. The only thing that is becoming extremely rare is any integrity or accuracy in climate science.

Maryland Extreme Ice Survey | Real Science

And here is another Andrew who claims to be a scientist, citing Andrew Freedman’s junk science as evidence.

Andrew Newton? on Twitter

NASA didn’t like the fact that their 2001 level of data tampering didn’t show much warming, so they further altered the data to double 1880-2000 warming.  In 2001, NASA showed 0.5C 1880-2000 warming, and by 2015 they had increased it to 1.0C 1880-2000 warming.

2001      2015

Scientists tell us that fake temperature data from NASA and NOAA threatens to melt Glacier National Park, and bring us closer to the fatal, imaginary two degrees warming.

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

As you can see, my assistants are very concerned about global warming this morning.

The first half of April was third coldest in the past 110 years in the US, and the coldest since 1975.  The three warmest first fifteen days of April occurred in 1910, 1930 and 1925, when about 80% of days were over 60 degrees.

The Red Tailed Hawks are back, building a new nest in the same tree.  They weren’t successful last year, possibly due to late snowstorms on April 29 and May 18. Hopefully this year will be more productive.

NavyLookout on Twitter: “Submariners from HMS Trenchant enjoy a spot of cricket at the North Pole during time off from the recent ICEX… “

Sixty years ago, the USS Skate surfaced at the ice-free North Pole.

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

The Bush family immediately recognized it as an opportunity to wage war with Russia.

13 Aug 1958, 1 – Star-Gazette at Newspapers.com

So nothing has changed over the last 60 years, except that the ice is a lot thicker now.

CICE_combine_thick_SM_EN_20180418.png

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

A reminder that progressives are not only experts about climate, but many other scientific topics too.

Steve Goddard on Twitter: “Jennifer is unable to distinguish between these two photographs. She must have attended public school.… https://t.co/yuxG2bsXJf”

The birds are back in Colorado.  And I am too.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

The claim was that the ozone hole was going to cause skin cancer in Australia by allowing too much ultra-violet light through the atmosphere.

27 Jul 1989, 7 – Marshfield News-Herald at Newspapers.com

There are lots of problems with this claim.

First problem is that the ozone hole never extends beyond Antarctica, and only appears in the winter, when there isn’t any sunlight. Ozone is created in the upper atmosphere by sunlight.  You can’t get skin cancer from sunlight during times when the sun isn’t shining. As soon as the sun comes back out over Antarctica, the ozone hole disappears.  How are people in Australia going to get skin cancer from an ozone hole thousands of miles away during winter when the sun is low in the sky?

Second problem is that the ozone hole size varies tremendously from year to year, despite relatively steady levels of CFC’s in the atmosphere. It is quite clear that CFC’s are not the controlling factor.

Climate Prediction Center – Stratosphere: SBUV-2 Total Ozone – Ozone Hole

Just like the global warming scam, the ozone hole scam was another opportunity for government to tax and control, and another opportunity for scientists to imagine themselves saving the planet.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

H. L. Mencken