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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Ralph says:
June 27, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Stanford researchers
Stephen Schneider is from Stanford. No surprise this comes from Stanford.
The Communists, when in power, pushed lies down the peoples’ throats, hiding the truth all the way.
Climate Change Alarmists, politicians and their cronies in the MSM, currently in power, are pushing lies down the peoples’ throats, hiding declines, coolings, thick ice in the N_Pole and a record sea-ice cover in the S_Pole and other truths.
I am not sure why this is not being given the right exposure: The S_Pole has been afflicted, since mid-May, with a cold spell and a record sea-ice cover never seen before by satellites.
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/ice_ext_s.png
Communism collapsed in a few months.
Climate Change Alarmism is crumbling fast.
I am seeing a correlation between the way communism collapsed and the way the alarmists are acting to prop up the collapsing political stage/gravy train.
Amino Acids in Meteorites
‘How important is the Nobel Prize?’
Not very any longer. They have changed the criteria numerous times since Alfred Nobel put pen to paper. If I remember correctly it was supposed to be for young people and their “good but non violent” doings that would or really could benefit rest of society, not old farts who have to wait until they get even older farts. The peace price has of course become a bogus construction of peace incentive rather than peace itself–it’s become more important to say you want a decrease in the numbers of bombs rather than actually reducing the number of bombs and if you’re a horrible enough person to say so… LoL that should’ve been obvious with the nominations of the likes of Hitler and Stalin, they too just wanted people to leave them be in peace.
Regarding Al’s masseuse, her name was Antarctica and she was indeed HOT. But Al wouldn’t cool it so …. sorry, just can’t resist. File this under silly.
Anu
The term coined by Hansen was “polar amplification” not “Arctic amplification.” Since Hansen first wrote about it nearly 30 years ago, Antarctic temperatures have dropped steadily.
Alarmists have disowned Antarctica, except for a few thousand square kilometres on the Peninsula located on an active volcanic ridge.
Alex the skeptic
Thanks for the link. It will going in this week’s sea ice news.
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.”
Well, now we know why Tipper reached her ‘tipping point’ with him …
1DandyTroll says:
June 27, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Amino Acids in Meteorites
‘How important is the Nobel Prize?’
“Not very any longer…. The peace price has of course become a bogus construction of peace incentive rather than peace itself–it’s become more important to say you want a decrease in the numbers of bombs rather than actually reducing the number of bombs and if you’re a horrible enough person to say so… LoL that should’ve been obvious with the nominations of the likes of Hitler and Stalin, they too just wanted people to leave them be in peace.”
It seems that nominations that did not result in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize are not as important as some of those that did. Consider these examples:
2009, Barack H. Obama
2007, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2001, United Nations (U.N.) , Kofi Annan
1994, Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1992, Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1989, The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1978, Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1973, Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1926, Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/
Anyway, one consolation is that the fit for Al Gore is no worse than that for some of the others on the list.
“Surely the world must be coming to an end…” = More Climate Ca$h for the climate “scientists”!
Remember that in 2009 our climate scientist friends had their snouts in the government stimulus trough to the tune of millions of dollars, all while our economy tanked. They’ve now squandered their stimulus funds and therefore seek more Climate Ca$h to refill their troughs. What better way than to gin up more hysterical media press releases!
Headlines correlate to the PDO cycle…at least that is the impression I get from the following:
http://butnowyouknow.wordpress.com/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history/climate-change-timeline/
The colour coding is fun.
“…She said she was intimidated by his physical size, calling him “rotund…”
Now, now! Rotund implies sphericity. Al is not spherical; he’s more prolate, like a…a great big watermelon.
“…She said she was intimidated by his physical size, calling him “rotund…”
I think she meant robust 😉 .
Only when we look back at some of the alarmist nonsense on both warming and ice-age since 1815 do we see a cycle of man-made climate alarm:
Ice age fears
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945635,00.html
(150 of global warming and cooling fears)
http://newsbusters.org/node/11640
(1895-2008 warming and cooling fears)
http://www.almanac.com/sites/new.almanac.com/files/1895_cvr1_0.png
(numerous new ice-age articles from 1970s)
http://anotherviewonclimate.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/time-announces-approaching-ice-age/
My favorite headline of the last few months:
“World to end, blame Fox News” !
stevengoddard,
More interesting than a phrase that Dr. Hansen might or might not have used 30 years ago are the measurements concerning the bottom melting of sea ice: autonomous ice mass balance buoys were deployed in the sea ice cover as part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory, the Beaufort Gyre Environmental Observatory, and the Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies Program. These buoys monitor changes in snow deposition and ablation, ice growth, and ice surface and bottom melt.
Figure 2c shows the measured values of bottom melt, from an ice mass balance buoy drifting in the Beaufort Sea, of 11 cm/day in late August.
http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~shs/Climate%20change/Data%20sources/Perovic%20ice%20cover.pdf
WUWT talk about winds and currents and “ice compaction” miss this important part of the Arctic summer melt. Losing ice out the Fram Strait varies from year to year, but the Arctic ice is clearly trending down:
http://www.ifm.zmaw.de/fileadmin/files/images/research/remote_sensing/sea_ice_RS/FSVolFlux/MothlyVolFlux.png
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/NEWIMAGES/arctic.seaice.color.000.png
All that record-breaking open water is absorbing heat from the Sun and melting the adjacent sea ice from below.
July will probably be a good time for “skeptics” to start ignoring the Arctic and concentrate on other topics that “prove” their worldview. Perhaps Al Gore will have an affair with a golf pro – that could supply blog fodder for two months or so.
Walter Schneider says:
June 27, 2010 at 4:23 pm
It is difficult to defend some of the Nobel Peace Prize winners, e.g. the terrorist Menachem Begin, leader of the militant right wing group Irgun, responsible for the King David Hotel bombing which killed 91 and wounded 46:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun
Of course, one mans “terrorist” is another mans “hero”, as Nelson Mandela has pointed out.
Martin Luther King Jr. was lucky to win his Peace Prize at a young age, before he was murdered at age 39. Mohandas Ghandi was not so lucky, even though he wasn’t murdered until age 78.
Probably the most deserving winner was the woman who won in 1966 and again in 1972. But a close second is Le Duc Tho, the only person who refused to accept his “Peace” prize, pointing out quite correctly that there was no Peace in Vietnam (this was 1973). Henry Kissinger, who didn’t have to live in Vietnam, had no such reservations, and was happy to accept his half of the Prize.
Anu
It should be obvious that sunlight warmed water can only melt ice which is very local. i.e. It doesn’t melt ice 100 km away, and the Arctic summer is very short.
The ice edge is determined by the wind, not the sun.
kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
June 27, 2010 at 2:11 pm
“…There are someThat’s a large chart to begin with, and I have stared at it at 400% zoom…. 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.
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The travesty is you analising a graph using your computer zoom, decidedly bizarre. Just download the daily readings, make a day to day graph, see the wriggles in the line and discover that the average is a straight line. http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/plot.csv
I note that some are drawn to the World Cup soccer in the comments. May I propose organising a match between 2 international teams; the Alarmists and The Skeptics, to be held on the North Pole, at summer solstice asap. If we wait too long, they may have to be water-polo teams.
Alex the skeptic says:
June 27, 2010 at 2:38 pm
“….The Communists, when in power, pushed lies down the peoples’ throats, hiding the truth all the way.
Climate Change Alarmists, politicians and their cronies in the MSM, currently in power, are pushing lies down the peoples’ throats, hiding declines, coolings, thick ice in the N_Pole and a record sea-ice cover in the S_Pole and other truths.
Communism collapsed in a few months.
Climate Change Alarmism is crumbling fast.
I am seeing a correlation between the way communism collapsed and the way the alarmists are acting to prop up the collapsing political stage/gravy train….”
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Have you shared your delusion with Christopher Moncton?
North of 43 and south of 44 says:
June 27, 2010 at 6:28 pm
“…She said she was intimidated by his physical size, calling him “rotund…”
I think she meant robust 😉 .
Maybe we should take to referring to him as ‘His Robust Robustness’ …
Out of sight, out of ear shot, real science procedes without fanfare, little noticed, little understood, unimagined mini-steps gradually move toward understanding and discovery. In the press, on the tube, hacks and quacks procede with fanfare, greatly noticed, clearly understood, their lies and political giant steps swiftly move toward power and treasure.
Life’s a beach! Be careful who and what you believe, and how deep you go.
Curious Yellow
We are a week past the solstice and the ice at the North Pole is about three metres thick. You seem a bit confused.
I note a few Koolade drinkers have migrated from the Guardian CIFGreen blog. Someone must have told them to go forth and be missionaries for George the Moonbat – God knows he needs all the support he can get after making such an ass of himself over ‘Africagate’. No reply has appeared to the comments re ‘Africagate’ by Mssrs Dellingpole and Booker.
Roald says:
Does anyone know how the Danish meteorological institute (dmi) calculate their mean temps north of 80N?
Nobody seems to have answered this yet. If you look at the DMI pages, they write that it’s based on the ECMWF numerical weather prediction model (in different versions, from January in their new very high resolution version). I’m not a meteorologist, but as far as I can understand from the explanation here this model uses heterogenous sources, but most of it comes from satellites. Hope this helps a little! (Maybe Anthony or other meteorologists can explain better and more)