Antarctic Sea Ice Area Growing Again!!!

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After a few days of shrinking, Antarctic Sea Ice Area is growing again and trying for a new all time record.

The horizontal blue line is the all time record (by warmist standards). Go red go!

Only 112,000 sq km to go!

Year Day of Year Ice Area
2007 263 16.2323818
2007 264 16.2156487
2007 265 16.1711521
2007 266 16.1504288
2012 259 16.1458836
2012 266 16.1204205
2007 267 16.1177235
2012 258 16.1003437
2012 257 16.0984936
2007 262 16.0848694
2007 268 16.0605392
2012 256 16.0570793
2012 260 16.0534458
2010 227 16.0503387
2000 253 16.0354385
2007 256 16.0280628
2007 272 16.0231705
2010 226 16.0212231
2012 255 16.0202618
2012 254 16.0092392
2010 228 16.0086727

Save The Coal – Burn a Forest!

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“Drax Group Plc (DRX) will spend $1 billion to turn the U.K.’s biggest coal-fired plant into western Europe’s largest clean- energy producer. The utility plans to convert one of the site’s six units to burn wood pellets by June, said Chief Executive Officer Dorothy Thompson. It intends to switch two more units to wood at a later date, investments that if completed will see it harvest a forest four times the size of Rhode Island each year“

“While burning biomass releases carbon dioxide, the EU deems the technology carbon-neutral because trees absorb emissions in a similar proportion to what they release in burning. Opponents argue that it’s hard to ensure enough is being planted to compensate for what is burned.”

Opponents? By opponents do they mean sane people? Or do they mean greenies who are slightly less insane than the average greenie?

“Wood pellets are bulkier than coal, need to be kept dry and handled more gently. They can create dust if stored in the open. To deal with this, Drax is building silos out of plastics, foam, steel and concrete, with conveyor floors and capable of holding 700,000 metric tons of biomass.”

This is great … all those jobs and all that plastic and foam and steel and concrete (did you know concrete produces a lot of CO2?)

Green policies are saving the poor unfortunate coal and killing off four forests the size of Rhode Island (which is actually quite small but it sounds scary).

I like trees. I have no objection to trees being cut down to provide useful things like houses and paper.

But to burn vast quantities of trees and to build up a huge new infrastructure to burn wood instead of burning coal (or preferably natural gas) is insane. But thats what green policies do. They distort the market. They rewards people for doing insane things … like burning forests instead of coal or building wind turbines (and backup power plants) instead of reliable natural gas power plants.

Imagine … power plants burning forests will act as the backup power for unreliable wind turbines!

 

 

NOAA vs USCRN July 2012

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The USCRN is a new ‘state of the art’ United States Climate Reference Network.

The USCRN “consists of 114 stations developed, deployed, managed, and maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the continental United States for the express purpose of detecting the national signal of climate change.”

This is the monthly Mean from both NOAA and USCRN for July 2012 for the 48 continental states.

9 states show USCRN stations warmer than NOAA (bold) and 39 show NOAA warmer than USCRN.

State NOAA USCRN NOAA_minus_USCRN
Alabama 81.7 80.83 0.87
Arizona 80.3 81.41 -1.11
Arkansas 84.1 84.2 -0.1
California 75 72.32 2.68
Colorado 71.2 71.29 -0.09
Florida 82.2 81.56 0.64
Georgia 82.3 82 0.3
Idaho 70.2 71.96 -1.76
Illinois 81.7 77.54 4.16
Indiana 80.2 81.68 -1.48
Iowa 79.4 80.06 -0.66
Kansas 84.3 84.02 0.28
Kentucky 80.7 80.24 0.46
Louisiana 82.1 82.04 0.06
Maine 68 66.74 1.26
Michigan 73.3 68.9 4.4
Minnesota 74.4 70.52 3.88
Mississippi 81.8 80.15 1.65
Missouri 83.7 82.04 1.66
Montana 71.4 67.89 3.51
Nebraska 80 79.47 0.53
Nevada 73.6 73.52 0.08
New Hampshire 69.6 70.61 -1.01
New Mexico 74.6 72.91 1.69
New York 71.7 71.15 0.55
North Carolina 80.5 76.52 3.98
North Dakota 73.8 73.16 0.64
Ohio 77.6 76.28 1.32
Oklahoma 85.5 84.78 0.72
Oregon 67.4 66.42 0.98
Rhode Island 73.1 71.87 1.23
South Carolina 82.7 81.86 0.84
South Dakota 78.8 77.86 0.94
Tennessee 80.4 75.92 4.48
Texas 83.4 82.76 0.64
Utah 74.2 74.03 0.17
Virginia 79 80.24 -1.24
Washington 66.6 63.44 3.16
West Virginia 75.5 68 7.5
Wisconsin 74.7 76.64 -1.94
Wyoming 71.5 69.98 1.52

Sunshine Up In Switzerland Since the 1980s

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I see Martin Wild is still writing papers proving that Surface Solar Radiation (I tend to call it Bright Sunshine)  is higher than in the past. (Thanks HockeySchtick)

Decadal variations in estimated surface solar radiation over Switzerland since the late 19th century – A. Sanchez-Lorenzo and M. Wild

All-sky SSR has been fairly stable with little variations in the first half of the 20th century, unlike the second half of the 20th century that is characterized also in Switzerland by a dimming from the 1950s to the 1980s and a subsequent brightening.

Does this graph of Sunshine changes look like the temperature changes graphs?

The effect of CO2 doubling is supposed to be 3.7W/m^2. In this table, changes in sunshine from 1981 to 2011 produce 5.59W/m^2 in December to 15.25W/m^2 in April.

NOAA Temperature Trends Per State as low as -249.5F / decade

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Using data as of Aug 2012, these are the NOAA temperature trends (in Fahrenheit per decade) 6 months ago to present, one year to present etc. (Of course the NOAA data may be heavily adjusted upwards)

Notice the 6 month trends for most states are amazingly low such as Iowa’s -249.5F / decade, which of course was caused by the very unusual warmth in March 2012.

But if you look all the way to the right at the 15 year trends, even with March 2012 being so warm, there are still 20 states with a negative trend.

And then looking at the 6 month trends that are hugely positive like Washington and Oregon caused by a very warm August.

State 6 months 1 Year 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Alabama -190.9 15.9 13.6 14 8.1 3.5 2.2 0.5 0.2 0.8 0.8 0.6 1 0.5 0 0.1
Arizona 2.1 17 5.9 7.1 1 0.9 0.2 -1.1 -0.3 -0.8 -0.9 -1.2 -0.7 -1.1 -0.8 -0.2
Arkansas -182 32.1 19.5 18.8 13.6 7.6 4.8 1.8 0.7 1 1.4 1.2 1.3 0.6 0.1 0
California 34 -2 5.5 4.1 -0.4 0.7 0 0 0.4 -0.4 -0.5 -0.5 -0.2 -0.6 0.1 0.4
Colorado -83.7 40.3 14.2 17.1 6.7 6.1 4.3 1 0.4 0.1 -0.2 -0.4 -0.1 -0.7 -0.8 -0.3
Connecticut -120.9 -28.3 24.3 11 12.5 7 5 2.6 2.6 2.6 3 1.3 1.5 1.2 0.7 0.4
Delaware -97.3 -6.7 20.5 13.9 12.3 6.2 4.8 2.6 3.1 3 3.5 1.9 2.3 1.8 1.3 1
Florida -118.9 2.8 16.3 10.4 6.3 1.6 0.9 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0 0.3 0.2 -0.2 -0.2
Georgia -189.5 7 16.5 13.5 8.3 3.6 2.2 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.9 0.3 0.9 0.5 0 -0.1
Idaho 25.2 1.5 10.4 5.4 1.9 3.3 0 -0.3 -0.5 -1 -1.7 -1.1 -0.5 -1 -0.8 -0.8
Illinois -214.5 22.9 33.4 18.2 15.3 9.7 5.6 2.1 0.7 1 1.7 0.7 1.2 0.6 0.2 0
Indiana -218.9 17 30.9 16.6 13.6 8.1 5 2.2 1.2 1.3 1.9 0.8 1.1 0.7 0.3 0
Iowa -249.5 18.7 38.6 22.8 17.1 12.2 6.2 1.6 -0.1 0.5 0.9 -0.1 0.7 0 -0.5 -0.6
Kansas -206.7 44.6 25.6 24.4 14.2 9.4 6.1 1.4 0.5 0.9 0.9 0.3 0.6 -0.1 -0.5 -0.3
Kentucky -200.4 16.5 24.1 14.8 10.7 5.4 3.2 1.5 0.4 0.6 1 0.3 0.7 0.3 -0.1 -0.2
Louisiana -176.8 10.5 9.8 14.7 7.8 3 2.8 0.8 0.1 0.6 1 0.9 1.3 0.8 0.1 0.1
Maine -80.8 -26.3 15.4 2.5 10.1 8 6.1 2.8 3.3 3.3 3.8 2.3 2.2 1.7 1 0.8
Maryland -131.1 -5.6 20.9 11.6 11.1 5.7 4.1 1.9 1.9 1.8 2.5 1.1 1.6 1.3 0.8 0.5
Massachusetts -111.6 -20.1 25.4 9.9 11 6.6 4.4 2.2 2.5 2.6 3.1 1.4 1.4 1 0.5 0.2
Michigan -182.2 5.5 33.1 9.5 14.2 8.9 5.3 1.7 1.2 1.8 2.5 1.2 1.1 0.7 0.1 -0.2
Minnesota -224.2 -19.1 42.1 13.9 17.3 13.1 6.5 1.3 0.3 1.3 1.6 0.6 1.1 0.3 -0.2 -0.7
Mississippi -201.5 19.3 11.9 13.6 7.9 3.2 2.3 0.6 0.2 0.9 1.2 1 1.4 0.8 0.1 0.1
Missouri -205 36.6 32.5 22.3 15.4 9.9 5.4 1.7 0.6 1.1 1.6 0.9 1.3 0.6 0.1 0.1
Montana -78.6 -21.1 31.2 15.7 10.2 5.7 1.2 -1.6 -1.7 -0.9 -1.1 -0.6 0.1 -0.7 -0.9 -1
Nebraska -207.4 40.6 34.3 24.7 14.6 9.6 5.3 0.4 -0.8 -0.3 -0.1 -0.7 0 -0.7 -1 -0.8
Nevada 17.9 8 9.8 9 1.9 2.7 0.5 -0.5 0.1 -0.5 -1 -1 -0.7 -1.1 -0.6 -0.2
New Hampshire -123.3 -25.9 23.6 9.9 12.3 8.1 5.9 3.1 2.9 2.8 3.1 1.5 1.7 1.3 0.7 0.4
New Jersey -130.1 -18.5 20.4 9.5 10.2 4.9 3.8 1.7 2.1 2.3 3.3 1.7 2.1 1.8 1.3 0.9
New Mexico -28.8 27 1.6 11.7 4.8 3.7 4.3 1.5 1.5 0.9 0.5 0.1 0.3 -0.2 -0.3 0.1
New York -150.9 -20.8 27.6 10.9 12.1 6.9 5.4 2.6 2.4 2.7 3.2 1.5 1.7 1.3 0.8 0.4
North Carolina -152.1 -6 16.2 11.2 8 2.5 1.8 0.8 1 1 1.2 0.4 0.9 0.7 0.3 0.2
North Dakota -215.3 -36.3 47.1 18.1 19.4 11.1 5.1 -0.7 -1.4 0.2 0.5 0 0.6 -0.4 -0.6 -1
Ohio -180.5 8 30.5 15.3 12.5 6.8 4.6 2.3 1.8 2 2.3 1 1.3 0.9 0.4 0.1
Oklahoma -163.8 36.2 17.3 22.6 13.6 8.3 6.5 2.1 1.6 1.8 2 1.7 1.7 0.8 0.3 0.2
Oregon 43.8 -17.7 3.3 1.4 -0.9 1.5 -0.7 -0.8 -1.2 -1.8 -2 -1.6 -0.9 -1.1 -0.6 -0.7
Pennsylvania -141.4 -4 28 13 12.2 6.3 4.6 2.2 1.8 1.9 2.4 0.9 1.2 0.8 0.3 0
Rhode Island -146.2 -16.8 26 10.3 11 6.3 4.2 2.2 2.7 2.6 2.9 1.3 1.2 0.9 0.3 0.2
South Carolina -185.4 -4.5 13.6 12 8.1 2.6 1.9 0.8 1.1 1.1 1.3 0.6 1.1 0.9 0.4 0.3
South Dakota -214 9.1 47.9 24.8 17.9 10.6 5 -0.5 -1.8 -0.9 -0.6 -1 0 -0.7 -1.1 -1
Tennessee -201.5 18.1 19.4 14.5 10 4.3 2.4 0.9 0.2 0.6 0.9 0.5 0.9 0.5 0 0
Texas -103.9 16.4 6.5 18.8 8.6 4.1 4.8 1.3 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.2 1.3 0.5 0 0
Utah -27 19.4 14.5 13.6 4.2 4.2 1.7 0 -0.2 -0.3 -0.7 -0.7 -0.6 -1.2 -0.9 -0.6
Vermont -120.1 -21.2 27.2 9.1 11.1 7 5.5 2.5 2.6 3.1 3.6 2 2.1 1.8 1.2 0.8
Virginia -140.4 -1.8 18.1 12.1 9.7 3.8 2.8 1.4 1.3 1.4 1.8 0.9 1.5 1.1 0.7 0.6
Washington 57.5 -14.4 2.7 -4.2 -1.4 0.9 -0.6 -1.3 -2.2 -2.6 -2.7 -2.1 -1.2 -1.1 -1 -1.2
West Virginia -165.7 2.1 23.8 14 10 4.3 3 1.4 0.7 0.9 1.2 0.3 0.9 0.6 0.2 0.2
Wisconsin -211.8 6.2 37.9 11.8 15.8 11.6 6.2 1.9 0.7 1.4 1.9 0.7 1 0.5 -0.1 -0.6
Wyoming -84.1 29.9 22.1 17.1 8.1 6.7 2.6 0 -0.5 0 -0.2 0.1 0.7 -0.2 -0.4 -0.2

1934 as Art (NOAA data)

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Here is 1934 graphed using data from NOAA (continental 48 states). One line per state. Each months anomaly from the 1895 – 2012 average for each state. Click on it for a larger version.

Notice how each month there are dozens of states temperature moving in the same direction, but there are large numbers of states going in the opposite direction.

Notice how one month into 1934, half the states were -10 to -14F colder than the long term average and others were over 5F above normal.

Antarctic Sea Ice Area – 5th Highest Ever – Day 259

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Update: I’ve added the 10 years with the lowest amount of Antarctic Sea Ice on day 259 at the bottom.

Antarctic Sea Ice is at it’s 5th highest amount ever on day 259. Using the data from Cryosphere I have graphed the record breaking Antarctic Sea Ice data. It is the most Antarctic Sea Ice ever for day 259, but it soon may break the all time satellite record that occurred in 2007. Highlighted are 2012, 2007 and the median for 1979-2008.

Antarctic Sea Ice Days Above 16 million sq km

Year Day of Year Ice Area (millions of sq km)
2007 263 16.2323818
2007 264 16.2156487
2007 265 16.1711521
2007 266 16.1504288
2012 259 16.1458836
2007 267 16.1177235
2012 258 16.1003437
2012 257 16.0984936
2007 262 16.0848694
2007 268 16.0605392
2012 256 16.0570793
2010 227 16.0503387
2000 253 16.0354385
2007 256 16.0280628
2007 272 16.0231705
2010 226 16.0212231
2012 255 16.0202618
2012 254 16.0092392
2010 228 16.0086727

 

10 Lowest on Day 259 – Lots of Days from the previous century when it was supposedly colder.

Year Day of Year Ice Area (millions of sq km)
1986 259 14.4532652
2003 259 14.5089273
2002 259 14.5463839
1992 259 14.6024981
1984 259 14.6457319
2001 259 14.6587334
1990 259 14.6708126
1979 259 14.7004375
1988 259 14.7971506
1987 259 14.8088818