3rd Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Above one standard deviation.
35th Daily Record for Antarctic – 1.7 million above the 1981-2010 mean. – Above 3 standard deviations.
BBC: Heatwaves “More Likely” claim is ruined by the data
Paul Homewood discusses BBC claims that Heatwaves are more likely due to climate change. And because 2014 was the “hottest” year.
So I decided to look at the HADCET MAXTEMP data.
Not the average. The maximum.
I then arbitrarily set the heatwave boundary at 25C.
And then calculated the number of days over 25 and the longest stretch (ie Heatwave).
Guess what? 2014 barely ranks. Only 8 days above 25. 1911 had 29! (See large table at bottom for 25C heatwaves)
What if I set the Heatwave definition at 30C? There are only 8 years that have days over 30C.
1976 is the winner. And 1976 was 39 years ago! (Corrected from 30)
The 30C days and temps.
“1976-07-01” “1976-07-02” “1976-07-03” “1976-07-04” “1976-07-05” “1976-07-06” “1976-07-07”
“30.6” “31.8” “33.2” “31.4” “31.4” “31.6” “30.4”
30C Heatwaves
| Year | Days | Longest Heatwave |
| 1976 | 9 | 7 |
| 1995 | 5 | 4 |
| 1975 | 4 | 2 |
| 1906 | 3 | 3 |
| 1948 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 3 | 2 |
| 1923 | 2 | 2 |
| 1990 | 2 | 2 |
25C Heatwave.
| Year | Days | Longest Heatwave |
| 1976 | 33 | 16 |
| 1995 | 33 | 10 |
| 1911 | 29 | 4 |
| 2006 | 26 | 7 |
| 1947 | 25 | 10 |
| 2003 | 23 | 10 |
| 1949 | 22 | 6 |
| 1933 | 21 | 6 |
| 1893 | 19 | 6 |
| 1921 | 19 | 6 |
| 1955 | 19 | 5 |
| 1975 | 19 | 8 |
| 1983 | 18 | 7 |
| 1989 | 18 | 7 |
| 1899 | 17 | 4 |
| 1887 | 16 | 3 |
| 1959 | 16 | 3 |
| 1990 | 16 | 4 |
| 1997 | 16 | 7 |
| 2013 | 16 | 8 |
| 2005 | 15 | 5 |
| 1884 | 14 | 5 |
| 1900 | 14 | 3 |
| 1935 | 14 | 4 |
| 1999 | 14 | 5 |
| 2001 | 13 | 5 |
| 1941 | 12 | 3 |
| 1878 | 11 | 6 |
| 1897 | 11 | 4 |
| 1898 | 11 | 5 |
| 1934 | 11 | 8 |
| 1970 | 11 | 5 |
| 1984 | 10 | 5 |
| 1901 | 9 | 5 |
| 1925 | 9 | 3 |
| 1942 | 9 | 4 |
| 1982 | 9 | 2 |
| 1991 | 9 | 3 |
| 1994 | 9 | 3 |
| 1996 | 9 | 5 |
| 2004 | 9 | 2 |
| 1906 | 8 | 5 |
| 1929 | 8 | 3 |
| 1957 | 8 | 4 |
| 1960 | 8 | 3 |
| 1969 | 8 | 3 |
| 1986 | 8 | 4 |
| 2014 | 8 | 5 |
| 1896 | 7 | 2 |
| 1919 | 7 | 2 |
| 1923 | 7 | 3 |
| 1944 | 7 | 3 |
| 1952 | 7 | 2 |
| 1973 | 7 | 4 |
| 1886 | 6 | 3 |
| 1895 | 6 | 2 |
| 1908 | 6 | 3 |
| 1914 | 6 | 2 |
| 1926 | 6 | 4 |
| 1937 | 6 | 2 |
| 1940 | 6 | 4 |
| 1945 | 6 | 3 |
| 1946 | 6 | 5 |
| 1961 | 6 | 2 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2 |
| 2011 | 6 | 3 |
| 1881 | 5 | 2 |
| 1885 | 5 | 4 |
| 1918 | 5 | 3 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4 |
| 1948 | 5 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 | 2 |
| 1977 | 5 | 5 |
| 1987 | 5 | 2 |
| 1992 | 5 | 2 |
| 1998 | 5 | 4 |
| 2000 | 5 | 3 |
| 2009 | 5 | 4 |
| 1891 | 4 | 4 |
| 1902 | 4 | 2 |
| 1904 | 4 | 2 |
| 1912 | 4 | 3 |
| 1922 | 4 | 2 |
| 1928 | 4 | 2 |
| 1932 | 4 | 2 |
| 1936 | 4 | 3 |
| 1939 | 4 | 4 |
| 1943 | 4 | 2 |
| 1950 | 4 | 4 |
| 1963 | 4 | 2 |
| 1968 | 4 | 2 |
| 2008 | 4 | 2 |
| 1894 | 3 | 2 |
| 1905 | 3 | 2 |
| 1917 | 3 | 2 |
| 1978 | 3 | 2 |
| 1980 | 3 | 2 |
| 1988 | 3 | 2 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 1880 | 2 | 2 |
| 1924 | 2 | 2 |
| 1972 | 2 | 2 |
Sea Ice Extent – Day 122 – 3rd Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Antarctic Sets 34th Daily Record For 2015
MASIE May 2 2015 – Arctic Ice Extent By Region As of Day 121
MASIE is now back online. (Thanks to Ron for a comment heads up – I had been checking intermittently)
No old data yet. Just data from day 112 to day 121.
From 02 December 2014 to 17 March 2015, no data are available because the input data files for that time period are corrupt. When our data provider has reprocessed those data, we will back fill the MASIE data, however NSIDC has no estimated date for when we will receive them.
The East Germans Have Successfully Take Over German Climate Policy
What was once launched as a – well-intentioned – green energy revolution has now mutated into a giant VEB [i.e. East German state company]. In Gabriel’s system electricity production is no longer determined by demand – as is usual in a market economy. It is not demand that determines supply – but the subsidy billions. Produced is only what wind and solar power and feed-in tariffs expensively allow, not what the public and the economy need – cheap energy. In Gabriel’s national energy system there is an ideological distinction between “good” (green) and “evil” (traditional) energy. Therefore, even profitable and clean gas power plants are switched off – as just happened to Europe’s most modern gas-fired power plant in Irsching. Instead, new subsidy-fed projects are connected to the grid without the necessary network capacity and without the necessary storage technology. For these intermittent power plants, coal power plants have to be kept running as backups, which in turn emit a lot more CO2, which now are also extra-taxed. It all feels like socialist self-perpetuating: this energy revolution cannot be stopped.
http://www.thegwpf.com/the-madness-of-germanys-energy-socialism/
Sea Ice Extent – Day 121 – 3rd Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Antarctic Sets 33rd Daily Record For 2015
Sea Ice Extent – Day 120 – 3rd Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Antarctic Sets 32nd Daily Record For 2015
Time Magazine: Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F
Time magazine, June 24, 1974:
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
Telltale signs are everywhere—from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data.
Even more from the Wayback Machine:
When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.
sunshine hours 