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3 Down … 15 to go. Nome Wind Farm.

Published on May 23, 2014May 23, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

3 Down … 15 to go.

“Wind power in Nome is taking a slight decline after a wind turbine at the Banner Wind Farm toppled this weekend.

At Tuesday’s Nome Joint Utility meeting, Utility Manager John Handeland said the welding anchoring a tower failed, and the 50 kilo-watt unit was destroyed.

That leaves 15 of the original 18 wind turbines at the Banner Wind Farm still standing.

Handeland explained, “One was destroyed during first the winter. One had delaminated blades. A then a third one was taken down and used for parts. And now this one.””

The wind farm went live in Nov 2008.

(h/t Small Dead Animals)

“A crew is arriving this week to conduct maintenance on the turbines. One of their top priorities is ensuring all the bolts on the units are tight and the foundations are secured. NJUS workers will work alongside the maintenance crew to gain additional experience in turbine upkeep.”

Sea Ice Update May 23 2014 – Global Sea Ice Skyrocketing

Published on May 23, 2014 by sunshinehours13 Comments

A quick update for sea ice extent for day 142 of 2014:

Global Sea Ice Extent is 913,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean and is well above the one standard deviation mark.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,378,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -465,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean.

NOAA Data here and here here.

Graphs below. Click for bigger.

Sea Ice Update May 21 2014 – Antarctic 73rd Daily Record of 2014 – Global Sea Ice 865,000 sq km Above Normal

Published on May 21, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

A quick update for sea ice extent for day 140 of 2014:

Global Sea Ice Extent is 865,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 4 for the day.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,356,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 1 for the day.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -492,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean.

NOAA Data here and here here.

Graphs below. Click for bigger.

“We like systems that can explain everything.”

Published on May 20, 2014 by sunshinehours11 Comment

I was reading this article by Stephen L Carter and came across this paragraph.

“The literary critic George Steiner, in a wonderful little book titled “Nostalgia for the Absolute,” long ago predicted this moment. We have an attraction, he contended, to higher truths that can sweep away complexity and nuance. We like systems that can explain everything. Intellectuals in the West are nostalgic for the tight grip religion once held on the Western imagination. They are attracted to modes of thought that are as comprehensive and authoritarian as the medieval church.”

Immediately the idea of CO2/AGW as a cult religion sprang to mind.

“We have an attraction, he contended, to higher truths that can sweep away complexity and nuance.”

Yes indeed. Who cares about sunspots or the AMO or PDO or solar cycles or the LIA. There is no need in the AGW cult to really care about any or those or any of the other inputs into climate systems. Blame everything on CO2.

“We like systems that can explain everything.”

Yes. The cult of CO2 explains warming and cooling and more snow and less snow and drought and floods. There is no need for anything else.

“Intellectuals in the West are nostalgic for the tight grip religion once held on the Western imagination. They are attracted to modes of thought that are as comprehensive and authoritarian as the medieval church.”

That explains so many things including the threatened excommunication of anyone who strays from the church of CO2 and AGW.

AGW is a cult that worships CO2 and Climate Change as god. As I’ve said before.

MASIE May 20 2014 – Arctic Ice Extent By Region As of Day 139

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May 20 2014 MASIE Update (Data here)

This is the gain/loss up to day 139. Negative = loss. Sorted with biggest loser in last 7 days at top. Northern Hemisphere is the grand total.

According to MASIE Melting over the last 3 days in the Arctic has come to a standstill except for East Siberian Sea. Hudson Bay actually rose 11,652 sq km.

Region	Start	End	Last 51 days	Last 28	Last 14	Las t7	Last 3	Last 1
Bering Sea	697,324	145,425	-551,899	-399,331	-214,044	-149,845	-77,071	-1,383
Barents Sea	645,917	505,824	-140,093	-67,499	-193,240	-72,875	358	0
East Siberian Sea	1,087,137	1,028,395	-58,742	-58,742	-58,742	-58,742	-58,742	-58,742
Sea of Okhotsk	853,240	93,755	-759,484	-282,711	-145,795	-34,575	-13,440	-6,319
Chukchi Sea	966,006	914,462	-51,544	-51,544	-46,558	-23,475	-12,332	4,563
Kara Sea	933,859	916,637	-17,222	-1,537	-18,386	-9,778	2,375	0
Laptev Sea	897,845	885,251	-12,594	-12,594	-12,594	-7,408	-8,091	-8,091
Baltic Sea	15,337	0	-15,337	-9,378	-8,402	-3,627	0	0
Canadian Archipelago	853,214	833,526	-19,689	-19,689	-19,689	-1,911	-658	0
Central Arctic	3,221,921	3,246,820	24,899	289	-1,193	-922	72	0
Yellow Sea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence	1,688,530	1,215,802	-472,728	-318,069	-119,373	4,557	42,202	-2,098
Beaufort Sea	1,070,445	1,052,576	-17,869	-17,869	-7,547	6,574	2,588	0
Hudson Bay	1,260,903	1,231,307	-29,596	-29,596	-23,385	40,731	11,860	11,652
Greenland Sea	603,416	712,327	108,911	75,832	66,638	111,395	57,212	-1,406
Northern Hemisphere (Total)	14,805,115	12,783,313	-2,021,801	-1,193,438	-803,296	-200,271	-53,956	-61,824

Antarctica Losing 159 Gigatons Per Year … Tick Tock … only 188,679 years to go

Published on May 20, 2014 by sunshinehours13 Comments

I’m sure you have seen the headlines. The continent of Antarctica is losing 159 gigatons of ice every year now. (Almost all of it where there are volcanoes under the ice)

The world is coming to an end surely if that is happening. (And lets be honest, that is a big IF because the AGW Kult lies)

NSIDC: “The Antarctic Ice Sheet contains 30 million cubic kilometers (7.2 million cubic miles) of ice.”

A gigaton of ice is approximately one cubic kilometer of ice.

So … at 159 gigatons per year, how long before Antarctica melts? That would be 30,000,000 / 159.

188,679 years.

I’m guessing our interglacial will end long before that. And the ice will have stopped melting and started growing.

What the Kult doesn’t tell you is that the minute Antarctica stops melting is the moment most of humanity will start to die because that when the interglacial ends.

And it will end.

Where is the ice loss?

(Image: CPOM/Leeds/ESA)

AMO (May) vs Antarctic Sea Ice Day 138

Published on May 19, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

The graph is in thise post compares sea ice extent for just one day of each year – 138 to the AMO for the month day 138 is in – in this case May. There isn’t any AMO data for May 2014 yet.

AMO data comes from NOAA, Sea Ice data comes from NSIDC.

The red is the May AMO – Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. The blue is Antarctic Sea Ice Extent just for day 138.

The dashed lines are the liner trends for each.

Click on the graph for a larger size.

Sea Ice Update May 19 2014 – Antarctic 71st Daily Record of 2014 – Global Sea Ice 699,000 sq km Above Normal

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A quick update for sea ice extent for day 138 of 2014:

Global Sea Ice Extent is 699,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is ranked 6th for the day.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,254,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is the 71st daily record for 2014.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -555,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean.

NOAA Data here and here here.

Graphs below. Click for bigger.

MASIE May 18 2014 – Arctic Ice Extent By Region As of Day 137

Published on May 18, 2014May 18, 2014 by sunshinehours11 Comment

May 18 2014 MASIE Update

This is the gain/loss up to day 137. Negative = loss. Sorted with biggest loser in last 7 days at top. Northern Hemisphere is the grand total.

Over the last 3 days Arctic Sea Ice actually rose a tiny amount – 5,806 sq km.

Over the last 49 days sea ice has dropped -1,956,398 sq km. But Greenland Sea and Central Arctic are actually higher than they were 49 days ago. An interesting quirk.

Region	Start	End	Last 49 Days	Last 28	Last 14	Last 7	Last 3	Last 1
Bering Sea	697,324	167,044	-530,279	-373,995	-188,021	-137,564	-56,458	-55,452
Barents Sea	645,917	495,673	-150,244	-88,856	-186,479	-91,981	-48,466	-9,793
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence	1,688,530	1,199,795	-488,735	-310,601	-132,236	-42,387	41,792	26,195
Sea of Okhotsk	853,240	104,167	-749,072	-288,825	-158,566	-38,253	2,073	-3,028
Chukchi Sea	966,006	928,693	-37,314	-37,314	-23,728	-24,692	379	1,898
Beaufort Sea	1,070,445	1,053,027	-17,418	-17,418	-17,418	-17,418	4,479	3,040
Kara Sea	933,859	913,275	-20,584	-14,243	-21,748	-13,538	-15,302	-987
Baltic Sea	15,337	0	-15,337	-9,411	-8,219	-8,065	-2,673	0
Hudson Bay	1,260,903	1,217,514	-43,389	-43,389	-36,414	-2,194	4,037	-1,933
Central Arctic	3,221,921	3,246,747	24,826	217	-1,265	-1,265	-994	0
East Siberian Sea	1,087,137	1,087,137	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yellow Sea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Canadian Archipelago	853,214	833,526	-19,689	-19,689	-19,689	429	-658	-658
Laptev Sea	897,845	893,342	-4,503	-4,503	-4,503	683	0	0
Greenland Sea	603,416	707,569	104,153	54,117	50,743	106,937	77,888	52,454
Northern Hemisphere (Total)	14,805,115	12,848,716	-1,956,398	-1,154,910	-748,542	-269,679	5,806	11,447

Sea Ice Update May 17 2014 – Antarctic 69th Daily Record of 2014 – Global Sea Ice 610,000 sq km Above Normal

Published on May 17, 2014 by sunshinehours11 Comment

A quick update for sea ice extent for day 136 of 2014:

Global Sea Ice Extent is 610,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,202,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is the 69th daily record of 2014.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -593,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean.

NOAA Data here and here here.

Graphs below. Click for bigger.