From the “weather is not climate department” another report of ice further south than has been recently experienced. Here’s a picture from this China Daily news story:
From Maritime Global.net
CHINA PORTS FREAK WEATHER ALERT
By David Hughes
Published: Tue, 26 January 2010
Freak weather conditions and/or abnormal weather patterns have been reported in several parts of the world during recent months warns the American P&I Club. One of the latest examples is a significant build-up of sea ice in some major northern Chinese ports, the volume exceeding, it says, anything experienced in more than 30 years.
In an alert to its members, the club says the problem is centred around Bohai on the northern Yellow Sea coast, affecting ports such as Bayuquan and Dalian. At Bayuquan, patches of ice 500-600mm thick have formed in some places, while lesser patches have been seen in the immediate vicinity of the port.
Three icebreakers are working to avoid delays to ships, while the local Maritime Safety Authority is strictly supervising inbound and outbound vessel traffic.
Other northern ports – such as Jingtang, Caofeidian and Xingang – are said to be not so seriously affected. On January 17, the Chinese National Sea Weather Forecast Station reported that floating ice around Liaodong Gulf extended as far as some 60 nautical miles from shore, at Bohai Gulf around 22 miles, Northern Yellow Sea around 14 miles, and Laizhou Gulf around 33 miles.
However, with more cold weather fronts expected later, ice coverage around the Bohai coast could expand, according to the club’s correspondents in China, Huatai Agency & Consultant Services Ltd.
The club advises that vessels scheduled to call at northern ports, especially Bayuquan, should be ready for extreme temperatures and ensure Port State Control requirements are strictly followed to avoid unnecessary delay.
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Here’s another news story from AsiaOne News:
Bohai bay turns into block of ice
h/t to Ron De Haan (Note: please fix your email!!)
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Change we can believe in!
Uh-oh, another “freak weather” incident…someone better get the WWF to update their reports.
Ya want the standard weather is not climate talking point?
Joe Bastardi predicted this in December. The Met Office predicted this in their fine tuned retrospective.
But, but, but less ice, more ice, hotter, colder is all part of global warming, I mean climate change, according to the WWF.
It’s obviously and outgrowth of global warming.
Since when does “more than 30 years” count as “freak”?
Just remember, climate change is causing this too. After all, Robert Gibbs said so:
(Responding to a question about record cold) “One only had to step outside of here, or visit where I used to work in Chicago to understand that climate change is, and the record temperatures that climate change is likely causing, is with us.”
http://climatequotes.com/politicians/robert-gibbs/
Cold or hot or average, it’s mankind’s fault.
Just saw this over at Jo Nova’s site. So, why do they laugh…
So where is there less Arctic sea ice than normal today?
The attached AMSR-E chart shows slightly less than normal extent for sea ice in recent years.
Quick – notify WaPo and MSNBC so they can report on this extreme weather event as further proof of global warming.
So hell is actually freezing over!
Bah-da-bump-crash!
Thanks, I’ll be here all week. Please tip your hostess.
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/quotes/txt/2010-01/27/content_242314.htm
That would place the last major occurrence of sea ice around 1970.
The Chinese will be pleased to know that, according to the UK Met Office, their freezing weather is all part of man-made global warming.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246904/Water-vapour-responsible-slowdown-global-warming.html
“…Dave Britton from the Met Office said the study highlighted the complexity of climate science. ‘But it does not challenge the basic science that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released from human activity are warming the planet,’ he said.
Dr Vicky Pope, head of climate science at the Met Office, said: ‘Whatever’s causing this change from decade to decade is having an influence at the surface. But it is a small variation on top of the long term increase in man-made greenhouse gases.'”
With no sunspots visible and sea ice building on the Northern Chinese cost, not seen in 30 years, I’d say it’s a cold Northern Hemisphere.
No sunspots — cold Northern Hemisphere.
Could there be a connection?
It’s a travesty. I’ll, hopefully be the first in this thread to add the catchphrase.
No No No. Can’t you read?
Arctic Sea Ice is at an almost record low for this time of year. This cannot be right. Only 2006 had less sea ice in the northern hemisphere at the end of January. Those pictures must be photoshoped. This is all a denialist conspiracy!
Don’t believe me;
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
(That is sarcasm for those with doubts.)
This terrible freak weather caused by global warming, there it is again. While this unpredictable heat accumulated in the last 50 years by the greenhouse gases lurks in some corner of the earth only to strike in midsummer again when we expect it least.
Yeah, but it’s all rotten ice so….
Alan S (13:42:36) :
“It’s a travesty. I’ll, hopefully be the first in this thread to add the catchphrase.”
But Alan, it was dirty robust ice!
Yup, another example of “odd-ball” cold weather caused by (ominous pause) GLOBAL WARMING-G-G-G! No doubt the Chinese were “thrown for a loop” because they were foolishly expecting their normal 60-degree (Fahrenheit) winter temperatures.
That reminds me of the song “Oh! Susanna” by the famous UEA climatologist Stephen Foster, which includes the lines
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry
The sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don’t you cry.
Maybe the IPCC will re-release it under the title “Oh! Climate Chaos”. 🙂
May i add: vicious, hideous, black, dark, strange heat. Yeah. Strange heat makes oceans freeze over. Strange heat. Sounds even better than dark heat. (No cosmological afterthoughts, Leif! Just kidding!)
Thirty years warm, thirty years cool.
Wasn’t that what Joseph told the Pharaoh?
(ahem)
Yes.
The whole freeken planet has odball (colder than normal) weather, and it’s because of “global warming”.
But, all the cold weather is just local variation.
Local to the planet earth, maybe?
How do we know this is not the start of an Ice Age. We know that we’ve had Ice Ages before and they would have started by freezing the sea around China before spreading down over much of the northern hemisphere. I keep hearing that we must apply the precautionary principle so could any climate scientist reading this explain how much anthropic warming we need to apply to our atmosphere to prevent the clear disaster that a new ice age would cause to our civilization and how we could achieve that?
But why is the sea ice extent curving down? A slight negative tick every once in awhile is expected, as is a slight upward tick. This time of year the general trend should be a generally upward sloping curve. But the recent data is forming a downward curve.
What areas are having significantly less arctic ice than normal?