The WUWT Hotsheet for August 7th, 2013

Bishop Hill says-

Louise Gray has adopted the role of recruiting sergeant for the Balcombe protest camp, offering up helpful advice on what aspirant participants should bring along:  http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2013/8/7/environmentalist-journalist.html

[That pretty much shreds Gray’s credibility – Anthony]

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Lots of chatter about sea ice being higher than in many recent years:

Danish Meteorological Institute: Arctic Sea Ice Now 1.7 Million Square Kilometers Over Last Year!

That’s 19,000 Manhattans. Arctic open sea water is in a death spiral!

Source: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/old_icecover.uk.php

But I’m not convinced it will last, as trouble in the form of a polar storm is brewing on the horizon, which could break up sea ice as a storm did last year (despite the wailing from alarmists, it was weather, not climate):

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Powerline Blog: Green Weenie of the Week: The Weather

Okay, by now we’ve done to death all of the things caused by climate change (the Warmlist is up to 883 items now), but the newest claim is that global warming will increase the violent crime rate.  From the Beeb:

Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.  US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.  The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place.

The crime rate in the United States has been falling steadily for the last 20 years, during which time, we are told daily, we’re notching the hottest years since Satan lit up his sulfur pits.   Hmmm.

The best takedown of this so far comes from William M. Briggs

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/08/green-weenie-of-the-week-the-weather.php?ModPagespeed=noscript

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Meteorologist Art Horn Letter to Connecticut State Dept. of Agriculture

Meteorologist, Art Horn, lays bare the nonsense about “extreme weather”, in a letter to the Connecticut Dept of Agriculture.

One of the reasons we teach people about history is to give them ability to place current events into their proper context. The same can be said about weather history. Those who do not know the history of weather do not know how to place current events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms, floods, droughts, heat waves, cold waves and all other types of weather phenomena into their proper context. If one does not know weather history than that person might think that all “unusual” weather is new and unprecedented.

Meteorologist Art Horn Letter to Connecticut State Dept. of Agriculture

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NOAA Confirms Model-Defying Global Temperature Stagnation…2012 Was Among Coolest In 21st Century

The political beauty about climate data is that it can be easily manipulated in order to fool the public.

The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released its State of the Climate in 2012: Highlights. To no one’s surprise, the report gives the reader the impression that warming is galloping ahead out of control. But their data show just the opposite. http://notrickszone.com/2013/08/07/noaa-confirms-model-defying-global-temperature-stagnation-2012-was-among-coolest-in-21st-century/

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How dare our politicians waste this much on doing nothing about the weather? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The waste is scandalous, even from the Coalition. We’re in deep deficit, which makes it even more insane to spend billions a year on making a difference to the temperature so immeasurably small that no party dares tell voters what it is.

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More polar bear boo hoos from the Grauniad:

Lots of questions about that “starved” 16-year-old polar bear

If it was healthy in April, can we just assume “from its lying position” that CO2 reduced it to skin and bones by July?  What about the admission that “there may have been some underlying disease”–did anyone actually check?  What did its teeth look like?  How big a factor was old age?  If pregnant female polar bears in Hudson Bay can fast for up to 8 months, how did CO2 cause this particular bear to starve so quickly?

After Ian Stirling found the animal dead in July, how did global warming activist photographer Ashley Cooper end up at the scene?  What was the process of hyping this dead bear to the media?  Didn’t thousands of polar bears end up looking like this well before the invention of the internal combustion engine?

Starved polar bear perished due to record sea-ice melt, says expert | Environment | The Guardian

Ice loss due to climate change is “absolutely, categorically and without question” the cause of falling polar bear populations, said Richardson, who cares for the UK’s only publicly kept polar bears. He said 16 years was not particularly old for a wild male polar bear, which usually live into their early 20s [or 15-18, who’s counting?]. “There may have been some underlying disease, but I would be surprised if this was anything other than starvation,” he said. “Once polar bears reach adulthood they are normally nigh on indestructible, they are hard as nails.”

A victim of climate change? Polar bear found starved to death looked ‘like a rug’ – World News

Ian Stirling, who has studied polar bears for nearly 40 years, told The Guardian newspaper that he found the animal on Svalbard in July.

“From his lying position in death the bear appears to simply have starved and died where he dropped,” Stirling said. “He had no external suggestion of any remaining fat, having been reduced to little more than skin and bone.”

The bear was examined by Norwegian scientists in April about 150 miles south and seemed to be healthy at that time…

Ashley Cooper, the photographer who took the picture, said the sight of the dead polar bear was “desperately sad.”

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Cooper said the fate of the bear was “what [all] polar bears have got to look forward to over the next 10 to 20 years.”

“There isn’t a future for them unless we can very rapidly get on top of climate change,” he said.

…Ashley Cooper / Global Warming Images

The bear is thought to have been heading north in a desperate search for sea ice that would allow it to hunt for seals. Scientists believe the Arctic could be essentially free of sea ice in September by 2054.  [So why will all polar bears starve within 20 years from now?]

Actionbioscience | Polar Bears and Climate Change

Pregnant female polar bears in Hudson Bay can fast for up to 8 months

Global Warming Images | Ashley Cooper’s website

Ashley Cooper has always been passionate about the environment and in recent years Global Warming, the affects of which he has been documenting for the last 8 years. His trips have taken him to many parts of the world with his particular interest being in capturing images that graphically demonstrate the impact of global warming, on people, places and wildlife.