By Steven Goddard,
Surely the world must be coming to an end, preceded by the demise of Arctic Ice. Some of my current favorites are listed below.
PIOMASS shows that Arctic ice volume has dropped to unprecedented lows.
Ice melt has been the fastest on record.
Hottest ocean temperatures on record.
Skeptics are incompetent and unqualified.
Ultimately, the best way to make a name for oneself as a scientist is to overthrow the conventional hypothesis “but to do that it takes extraordinarily good science,” Schneider notes. Climate change contrarians have yet to do this.
(But it is OK for the IPCC to do “extraordinarily bad science.” Only 24 years till the last glacier melts in the Himalayas)
We are making bigger hurricanes.
Skeptics are Holocaust Deniers.
Less than a minute into President Obama’s Oval Office address, my heart sank. For the umpteenth time since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill began, an anxious nation was informed that Energy Secretary Steven Chu has a Nobel Prize. Obama’s speech pretty much went down hill from there.
Nobel Prize winner Al Gore has been busy with masseuses of late. This seems to have slowed down his activities to save the planet, just when his planet is screaming out to him.
She said she was intimidated by his physical size, calling him “rotund,” described his “violent temper, dictatorial, commanding attitude” — what she termed a contrast from his “Mr. Smiley global-warming concern persona.”
and IPCC lead Dr Pachauri has been busy writing porn novels, when not publishing other fiction.Surely, with ice at a record low volume, at record hot temperatures, with record decline of ice, the hottest sea surface temperatures ever, and the oceans turning acidic – we must be headed for a nearly ice-free Arctic this summer. Anyone who has been touting these undeniable facts from the leading experts, must be willing to sign up for a huge record minimum. Like Wilson, who is predicting 1.0 million km². What are you waiting for? If you believe all this stuff, Wilson is your man.
http://www.arcus.org/search/seaiceoutlook/2010/june
Wilson (No organization provided); 1.0 Million Square Kilometers; Statistical and Heuristic 2007’s El Nino did three things to melt off 40% of ice volume relative to 2006: (1) 2007 was hot, 2010 was more so; December was the highest monthly anomaly ever, February was 4th highest, March 10th highest, April 7th highest and the warmest April ever
I wonder if Lewis Pugh is getting his kayak ready again?
30 August 2008
This year, for the first time, scientists predict that the North Pole could briefly be ice free and that has inspired Mr Pugh to try to find a way through….”Nobody has ever attempted to kayak to the pole before. In fact, it would have been impossible last year because it was frozen over,” he said.
It should be an easy trip, because the New York Times reported 10 years ago that the North Pole had already melted, like the Wicked Witch Of The West :
Ages-Old Icecap at North Pole Is Now Liquid, Scientists Find
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: August 19, 2000
The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate. The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago.
Not to mention that the New York Times predicted an ice free Arctic over 40 years ago. After they predicted an ice age 80 years ago. And before Time Magazine predicted an Ice Age in 1974.
Hopefully this is all perfectly clear. “Just Do It”
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Apparently getting headlines is more important than thinking.
I, for one, welcome our new climate overlords!
Great compilation Steven.
Button and Badge ideas can be found here:
http://sweasel.com/archives/6403#comment-50440
Inconvenient Proof has a ring to it and humor seems logical.
Some attempts at humor:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4739377148_b1a014bc3c_b.jpg
Make some more suggestions when you get a chance.
http://www.globalwarmingskeptics.info/forums/thread-14-post-5454.html#pid5454
He he…,
how quickly they forget their own regular complaint against the skeptics stating that there has been a cooling trend since 2001 or something like that.They would comeback with something like this,there MUST be at least 30 years long temperature record before we can say if it is a cooling trend or not.
But a 4 month trend proves everything in their minds.
To summarize:
Thus it MUST be 30 years before we can say there is a cooling trend.
But it is perfectly fine to claim 1-5 months time period and prove that there is a powerful warming trend going on.
ROFLMAO!
These AGW boys are amusing to say the least.
They think only about warming trends,the cooling trends are just numbers and nothing more in the AGW camp.What a myopic view they have.
What a load of horse feathers.
Here’s a good headline grabbing prediction:
Science Daily:
Scientific Expertise Lacking Among ‘Doubters’ of Climate Change, Says New Analysis
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100625185428.htm
The bogus study grabs for headlines.
“All the news that will fit we print” (Truth optional)
The Ny Ålesund Symposium got prime time coverage on Norwegian TV – no wonder with the Crown Prince and foreign ministers being the hosts. Of course, it was all about the “rapid changes in the Arctic”, and nobody mentioned that the Arctic has been warming before. Take for instance Jan Mayen, between Greenland and Svalbard, which has a very long record in the GISS data set: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=634010010003&data_set=1&num_neighbors=1
The linear trend for the 1921 – 2008 period was still negative, only in 2009 it turned flat…
It’s very striking how very intelligent they think they are, or is it want to be seen as perhaps?
Since when did any rational person ever use ever with a reference line that isn’t even 30 years in length in time?
The color red really gives contrast to the other colors though, but I’m not going to become a “true” believer anytime soon just because -54.4 is deemed more normal than -54.2, especially with less than 30 years of real consistent measuring.
Its worse than we thought folks!
The polar regions on that temp picture look very red indeed, it looks like the arctic is burning up doesnt it?
Hmmm, remind us again just how many stations it took to cover the entire top of the picture deepest red and what is the difference in temperature between the colour red and the colour blue?
How long do the models tell us we have before we all catch fire and drown?
PNP: Post Normal Propaganda
Perhaps Chu and Gore should have obelisks raised w/AGW heiroglyphics.
There’s a Green Job idea. Need straw and mud too.
FIFA needs instant replays. Half of their referees are incompetent. Mexico added to the long list of countries who have gotten robbed at the World Cup.
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa2.jpg
Look! The North Pole is awash with water!
(OK if you look at the archive pictures the melt ponds only appeared a few days ago)
yes, we arer all going to die!..But not today and not because of CAGW!
yes, we are all going to die!..But not today and not because of CAGW!
Nobel Prize winner Steven Chu – Obama’s Nobel Prize winning science advisor. Did I mention that he has a Nobel Prize?
Nobel Prize winner Al Gore
Nobel Prize winner and IPCC lead Dr Pachauri
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How important is the Nobel Prize? Richard Feynman has a thought on that:
Long-distance swimmer Lewis Pugh plans to kayak 1200km (745 miles) to the North Pole to raise awareness of how global warming has melted the ice sheet.
You can kayak on top of ice? I thought it was done in water. Must be that new kayaking.
Not to mention that the New York Times predicted an ice free Arctic over 40 years ago. After they predicted an ice age 80 years ago. And before Time Magazine predicted an Ice Age in 1974.
Excellent synopsis!!
This is slightly off topic, but there’s so much talk about GISS data being unreliable because they extrapolate the polar temperatures from only a few stations. Does anyone know how the Danish meteorological institute (dmi) calculate their mean temps north of 80N? If this has been discussed in another thread, perhaps someone could point it out to me.
Aren’t rotted ice believers concerned that the blue 2010 line is on a collision course with the dashed 2007 green line?
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
Red rover, red rover send 2010 right over!
It’s a good thing 2007 is a dashed line that will allow the blue line through or it would cause a wicked break. Thick ice is pretty much indomitable and anything in its path is crushed. And 2010 ice is thick!
Ramp up the hogwash, the empire strikes back, the alarmists now on the high ground of righteousness and with God and Mammon on their side, how could they lose?
Er………just one thing,,,,,”What’s that?”
“No one told the earth (panic!)…………. it’s not warming!”
The new putsche will not be deflected, the Chicago Carbon Exchange must go ahead, the Goldman Sachs boys say so!
Conspiracy? YOU betcha!
The Terrifying PIOMAS Arctic Ice Volume Anomaly (and trend) chart, last updated on June 18, continues its precipitous decline.
Dropping. Like. A. Brick.
It is unprecedented. Really. Because it is dead straight, a continuous rate, going straight down. The volume had peaked around January/February (near as I can eyeball on that graph) then the Arctic began losing volume as IARC-JAXA continued to show the extent increasing. The highest extent was on March 31, which is about when the current even-sharper decline started.
That’s a large chart to begin with, and I have stared at it at 400% zoom. That line is straight. There are some periods of decline that look like they may have a similar average rate. But for this one, there are no bumps, no zig-zags. It is a monotonic constant-slope dead-straight line, period, even after around three months have passed. By that chart, the Arctic was losing volume while growing extent, then after maximum extent it started this very long line, over a long period, and someone just looking at that segment alone would conclude it is a simple graph of a linear equation with time as the variable.
The absolute straightness of that line for that long on that graph is unprecedented. The Arctic sea ice Chanters of Doom gleefully point to that chart as fulfillment of the prophesies they have embraced. They do not question that line, they accept it without doubt or reservation. And that is a travesty. 😉
SKEPTICS ON CLIMATE CHANGE SHOWN TO HAVE LESS EXPERTISE IN SCIENCE
Posted June 27, 2010
Editor – Those scientists who believe human contribution to climate change is insignificant have far less professional background in climate research compared with scientists who are convinced, according to a study led by Stanford researchers.
http://greenheritagenews.com/entries/environment/skeptics-on-climate-change-shown-to-have-less-expertise-in-science
People that confuse newspaper articles with careful analysis will be sorely disappointed:
No wonder Steven is in a foul mood. He believed the hype.
Here’s an example of careful analysis:
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~shs/Climate%20change/Data%20sources/Perovic%20ice%20cover.pdf
There was an extraordinarily large amount of ice
bottom melting in the Beaufort Sea region in the summer of
2007. Solar radiation absorbed in the upper ocean provided
more than adequate heat for this melting. An increase in the
open water fraction resulted in a 500% positive anomaly in
solar heat input to the upper ocean, triggering an ice–albedo
feedback and contributing to the accelerating ice retreat.
The melting in the Beaufort Sea has elements of a classic
ice–albedo feedback signature: more open water leads to
more solar heat absorbed, which results in more melting and
more open water. The positive ice–albedo feedback can
accelerate the observed reduction in Arctic sea ice.
Arctic amplification – look into it.
Or watch it unfold, slowly, this summer.
http://www.solarnavigator.net/inventors/albert_einstein.htm
Einstein worked in this patent office from 1902 to 1909, holding a temporary post when he was first appointed, but by 1904 the position was made permanent and in 1906 he was promoted to technical expert second class. While in the Bern patent office he completed an astonishing range of theoretical physics publications, written in his spare time without the benefit of close contact with scientific literature or colleagues.