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5th Daily Record in 6 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

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July 27 (Day 208) saw the 5th Daily Record in 6 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent. Click graph for bigger.

That makes 15 daily records set in 2013. Looking at the graph, 2013 may have a long run of records still to come.

Out of 366 possible daily records, only 7 were set before 2000 –  4 in 1998, 2 in 1979 and 1 in 1980.

Year No of Records
2008 125
2010 124
2006 27
2012 27
2007 21
2013 15
2009 8
2004 5
1998 4
2000 4
2005 3
1979 2
1980 1

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Winter is Coming: Wolves Are Returning To Western Europe

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Winter is coming.

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“Wolves are prowling into Western Europe in their largest numbers for more than a century after a spate of mysterious sheep massacres that has spread fear through farms across the continent.Scientists in Holland made the revelation after a mysterious creature found dead by the side of a road was revealed to be the country’s first wolf in 150 years.

Meanwhile in Germany, 50 wolf-pack raids were recorded in Germany last year alone despite the fact that the country’s supposed ‘last wolf’ was shot dead in 1904.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2361758/The-wolfs-door-Killer-beasts-roaming-Western-Europe-time-100-years-sparking-fears-soon-arrive-Britain.html

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Boris Johnson Mocks the AGW Cult

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Boris Johnson , the Mayor Of London, mocks the AGW Cults total inability to predict climate.

“For more than 20 years now, we have been told that this country was going to get hotter and hotter and hotter, and that global warming was going to change our climate in a fundamental way. Do you remember that? We were told that Britain was going to have short, wet winters and long, roasting summers. It was going to be like 1976 all over again, with streakers at Lord’s and your Mr Whippy melting before you could even lick it, and Hyde Park scorched into a mini Kalahari.

They said we were never going to have snow again, and that we should prepare for southern England to turn gradually into a Mediterranean world. There were going to be olive groves in the Weald of Kent, and the whole place was going to be so generally broiling in summer that no one would be able to move between noon and 4pm, after which people would come out to play boules and sip pastis, to the whine of a mandolin, in the dusty square that had once been a village green.

That’s what they said: the BBC, and all the respectable meteorologists – and I reckon there were tens of thousands of people who took these prophecies entirely seriously. Omigod, they said to themselves, we are all going to fry.

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I hope I don’t need to tell you that we have not experienced a Mediterranean climate – not since they started to tell us to expect it. On the contrary, we have had some pretty long and miserable winters – including the last one, in which I saw snow settle in London on four separate occasions – and our summer is at risk of becoming a bit of a farce.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/10138096/The-weather-prophets-should-be-chucked-in-the-deep-end.html?placement=mid2