October 2012 was cold according to the NOAA.
The average temperature in October 2012 was 53.9 F. This was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 44th coolest October in 118 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade
74 Octobers were warmer.
The AMO is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
HADCRUT4 is a failed attempt by the UK MET to pretend it is warming.
Putin invites Europeans to Siberia for firewood – thanks Steve (Paris) World class mockery of the stupidity of Europe’s Energy Policies.
“The German public does not like the nuclear power industry for some reason,” Putin said, adding that he would not comment on it. “But I cannot understand what fuel you will take for heating,” he said anyway.
“You do not want gas, you do not develop the nuclear power industry, so you will heat with firewood?” Putin asked, as reported by Itar-Tass. “Then you will have to go to Siberia to buy the firewood there,” he said, adding that Europeans “do not even have firewood.”
WUWT and others have posts on the new Briffa and Melvin reconstruction that affirms the existence of the MWP.
After thinking about it and looking at the graphs again I realize they also crown 1936 as the warmest year ever using their proxies.
How insane. The Green AGW Cult is killing whole forests in North America and shipping the dead trees all the way to Europe to be burned for electricity instead of burning coal which has been dead for millions of years.
From the GWPF:
“A British government policy change is causing coal plants to convert to burning biomass, fuelling a huge increase in wood pellet exports from North America. But a new review of biofuels’ impact has cast doubt on their ability to tackle climate change.”
“The European policy is boosting exports of wood pellets from North America. American export volumes are forecast to increase from an estimated 1.5 million tonmes in 2012 to 5.7 million tonnes in 2015, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review.
Total Canadian exports to Europe in the second quarter of this year rose 14% from the first quarter, with reports of British Colombian pellet plants running at full capacity thanks to European demand.
Biomass-burning plants in the UK import most of their fuel, mostly from North America, which increases their carbon impact from transportation.”
The Hockey Schtick points to a new paper that finds a large increase in sunshine over the last 26 years.
“According to the authors, “the average increase of [surface solar radiation] from 1982 to 2008 is estimated to be 0.87 W m−2 per decade,” which equates to 2.26 W m-2 over the 26 year period. By way of comparison, this forcing was 12.5 times greater than the surface forcing alleged by the IPCC from increased CO2 over the same period.
The abstract is here. The paper is here.
“since the late 1980’s Rs has brightened over Europe due to decreases in aerosols but dimmed over China due to their increases. We found that variation of cloud cover determines Rs at a monthly scale but that aerosols determine the variability of Rs at a decadal time scale, in particular, over Europe and China.”
The warming since 1980 was caused by clean air legislation in the the US, UK and Europe.
Not by CO2.
I have posted several articles on this theme here , here and here.
xkcd Reminds Us That Predicting And Understanding Weather Is Hard
(xkcd is a webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language and well worth reading regularly.)
Among the ice charts I peek at every day is the one from DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute).
Today there was a new Sea Ice Extent Chart with this text at the bottom:
The plot above replaces an earlier sea ice extent plot, that was based on data with the coastal zones masked out.
The new plot displays absolute sea ice extent estimates.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent supposedly bottomed out around 2.5 million sq km according to the old chart posted by DMI for months.
Imagine my surprise when today the Sea Ice Extent bottomed out at 4 million sq km. and the chart looked like
Maybe that explains why Arctic-roos site isn’t showing any charts.
The NSIDC and many other used the ozone hole as an “excuse” for why Antarctic Sea Ice Extent broke records this year.
“Both warming and ozone loss act to strengthen the circumpolar winds in the south. This is due primarily to persistently cold conditions prevailing on Antarctica year-round, and a cold stratosphere above Antarctica due to the ozone hole. Stronger winds generally act to blow the sea ice outward, slightly increasing the extent”
Guess what, WUWT tells us it was the 2nd smallest ozone hole in 20 years.
“The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years, according to data from NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites.”
What a shock. The “scientists” excuses for more Antarctic Sea Ice was bogus.
George Monbiot once said: “flying across the Atlantic is as unacceptable, in terms of its impact on human well-being, as child abuse.” (h/t Tom Nelson)
I wonder if Michael E Mann has ever flown across the Atlantic?
Did he sue George Monbiot afterwards?
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