Very strange goings on in the arctic. It looks very dramatic in the bottom graph.
Possibly this monstrous tropical cyclone that smashed in the Bering Sea?
Update: Barents Sea Ice did take a tumble starting Nov 2. Which is nowhere near the Bering Sea.
It’s not really funny is it …
“BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 8 (UPI) — Wind turbines killed at least 600,000 — and possibly as many as 900,000 — bats in the United States in 2012, researchers say.
Writing in the journal BioScience, the researchers said they used sophisticated statistical techniques to infer the probable number of bat deaths at wind energy facilities from the number of dead bats found at 21 locations.”
The problem with the above article is that it probably grossly underestimates bat deaths considering the deaths of bird and bats found in Spain.
“The Spanish Ornithological Society in Madrid estimates that Spain’s 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 million to 18 million birds and bats annually. “A blade will cut a griffon vulture in half,” says Bechard. “I’ve seen them just decapitated.”
http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849
A couple of days ago I did a post about the days over 30C in the HADCET maximum daily temperature dataset.
Warmists have claimed we are all going to die in heatwaves. The HADCET doesn’t show that.
So I thought I would look at the same data for my hometown on the west coast. The data only starts in the late 1940s.
Here are three histograms of the daily maximum temperature over 35C , 30C and 25C. Nothing to worry about. Unless you plan to time travel to the 1960s or 1970s..
Click for larger.
So then I thought … what about early warm days and late warm days. By that I meant before June and after September.
There were no days over 35C that occurred early/late. And the years that stood out were the 1950s.
“Based on current technologies, higher biofuel production
necessarily means greater diversion of crops and/or cropland to
the production of fuel rather than food. The iron law of supply
and demand dictates that this would almost unavoidably
increase global food prices over what they would otherwise be.”
“Results derived from World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO)
studies suggest that for every million people living in absolute
poverty in developing countries, there are annually at least 5,270
deaths and 183,000 Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost to
disease. Combining these estimates with estimates of the
increase in poverty owing to growth in biofuels production over
2004 levels leads to the conclusion that additional biofuel
production may have resulted in at least 192,000 excess deaths
and 6.7 million additional lost DALYs in 2010. These exceed
WHO’s estimated annual toll of 141,000 deaths and 5.4 million
lost DALYs attributable to global warming.
Thus, policies intended to mitigate global warming may actually have increased death and disease in developing countries.”
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 16 Number 1 Spring 2011
( Hat tip to commenter David L Hagen from here. )
HADCET Daily Maximum data is available from 1878 on. There were 45 days over 30C since 1878.
I think we can agree that the AGW Cult insists we are all going to die because of massive heat waves.
Of the 45 days 30C and over, 5 occurred from 2003 to 2006, none after 2006.
6 occurred in the 1940s.
14 occurred in the 1970s – 9 of which occurred in 1976 alone.
Is death by heatwave imminent in the area covered by HADCET? I think not. And then there is the matter of UHI …
| Year | Month | Day | MAX TEMP |
| 1878 | 6 | 26 | 30 |
| 1906 | 8 | 31 | 30.4 |
| 1906 | 9 | 1 | 31 |
| 1906 | 9 | 2 | 31.3 |
| 1911 | 8 | 9 | 31.5 |
| 1911 | 8 | 13 | 30.1 |
| 1921 | 7 | 10 | 30.1 |
| 1923 | 7 | 12 | 31.1 |
| 1923 | 7 | 13 | 30.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | 27 | 30.2 |
| 1932 | 8 | 19 | 30.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | 31 | 30.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | 2 | 30 |
| 1948 | 7 | 28 | 30.8 |
| 1948 | 7 | 29 | 31.6 |
| 1948 | 7 | 30 | 30.5 |
| 1949 | 7 | 12 | 30.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | 7 | 30.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | 3 | 30.3 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4 | 31.9 |
| 1975 | 8 | 7 | 31 |
| 1975 | 8 | 8 | 31.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | 28 | 30.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | 29 | 30.1 |
| 1976 | 7 | 1 | 30.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | 2 | 31.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | 3 | 33.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4 | 31.4 |
| 1976 | 7 | 5 | 31.4 |
| 1976 | 7 | 6 | 31.6 |
| 1976 | 7 | 7 | 30.4 |
| 1984 | 7 | 8 | 30 |
| 1990 | 8 | 2 | 32.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | 3 | 33.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | 31 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | 1 | 31.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | 2 | 31.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | 3 | 30.3 |
| 1995 | 8 | 11 | 30.3 |
| 1997 | 8 | 10 | 30.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | 15 | 31.1 |
| 2003 | 8 | 9 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | 18 | 30.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | 19 | 32.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | 25 | 30.2 |
HADCET (Central England Temperature) October 2013 was a warm one, unlike September.
I have 3 graphs for you. They are HADCET Mean, Min and Max. The Min and Max HADCET data is only available from 1878 on.
October 2013 is tied for 10th warmest using the Mean data, 11th warmest using the Max data, and 5th warmest using the Min data.
For the Max data, 1921,1959,1969,1995,2001,2006,2011,2005,1945 and 1978 Octobers were warmer than October 2013.
Amazingly, October 1921 was 1.7C warmer than 2013 using Max data. Click on graphs to make bigger.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is just skimming along the bottom of the one standard deviation from the 1981-2010 mean on day 309.
Sea Ice is 580,000 sq km below the mean. Which happens to be about 5.8% since the mean for the day is almost exactly 10 million sq km.
On this day in 2012 Sea Ice was 16% below the mean.
The 92nd daily record for Antarctic Sea Ice occurred on November 4th (day 308).
As predicted, 1998’s two records no longer exist. And there are now only 2 daily records from before 2000.
There are 57 days left in the year, I think 2013 can catch 2010 for number of daily records in a year. Catching 2008 will be harder, but not impossible.
| Year | No of Records |
| 2008 | 125 |
| 2010 | 101 |
| 2013 | 92 |
| 2007 | 21 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2000 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 |
| 1979 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 |
I live on the west coast. Out of idle curiosity I wondered what would happen if I took the Tmax daily data for my hometown since 1998 and graphed the Trend (in C/decade) by Julian day.
The trends go from -4.4C/decade all the way up to 5.4C/decade. The mean of all the julian day trends is -0.28C/Decade
If I graph the data since 1980. The mean of all the julian day trends is +.05C/Decade
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