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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 15 2014 – Another All-Time Record

Published on September 15, 2014September 16, 2014 by sunshinehours119 Comments

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 15 2014 – 1,224,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 257. Data here.

18,000 sq km higher than yesterdays record. And 170,000 sq km higher than 2013’s all-time record.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 14 2014 – Amazing – Another All-Time Record

Published on September 14, 2014September 15, 2014 by sunshinehours110 Comments

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 14 2014 – 1,191,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 256. Data here.

Amazing. Day 256 has broken the day 255 all-time record by 110,000 sq km. And the daily record from 2013 was broken by 230,000 sq km.

History making.

Toronto Airport A Little Cool This Year – Zero Days Over 30C So Far

Published on August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 by sunshinehours11 Comment

Wow

““If Toronto’s Pearson International Airport weather station doesn’t hit 30.0ºC before the end of August — and it’s not looking like it will — this will be the first consecutive July and August that Pearson has not hit 30.0ºC+ since records began at Pearson in 1938 — that’s 76 years of data,” says Weather Network meteorologist Dayna Vettese.”

http://iceagenow.info/2014/08/summer-toronto-verge-setting-record/

Here is a histogram collection showing that there have been 1371 days over 30C at the airport. But 2014 could be blank.

Note that “global warming” hasn’t caused any increase in “heat waves”.

Have You Seen This Sentence: “… this study does not question the existence of a long-term anthropogenic warming trend during the 20th century.”

Published on July 8, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Have you ever read a paper on climate science and seen a sentence like this:

“We would like to emphasise that this study does not question the existence of a long-term anthropogenic warming trend during the 20th century.”

Guess what. That means the paper has probably been censored by the climate gatekeepers running the journals.

GWPF has the story from The Times:

“Research that questioned the accuracy of computer models used to predict global warming was “censored” by climate scientists, it was alleged yesterday.

One academic reviewer said that a section should not be published because it “would lead to unnecessary confusion in the climate science community”. Another wrote: “This entire discussion has to disappear.”

The paper suggested that the computer models used by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were flawed, resulting in human influence on the climate being exaggerated and the impact of natural variability being underplayed.”

A third reviewer was much more supportive of the paper, saying its “very provocative” suggestion that climate models were flawed was “so interesting that it needs to be discussed more fully”.

However, almost the entire paragraph was deleted, along with the conclusion that “the average sensitivity of the IPCC models may be too high”.

The journal chose to publish only the opening sentence: “We would like to emphasise that this study does not question the existence of a long-term anthropogenic warming trend during the 20th century.”

Will Britain Enjoy Fewer Cold Days Thanks To Global Warming? No.

Published on June 15, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

A new “study” is out.

“Britain will have fewer days of ‘extreme cold’ and will enjoy milder winters as a direct result of climate change, according to a new study.

The new research is set to cool growing fears that the Northern Hemisphere could be gripped by more severe winters throughout the next century due to the Arctic warming up.”

In these cases I like to turn to HADCET Daily Minimum data which is available from 1878 on. And I thought I would look at the number of days that the minimum was lower or equal to 0C for each year.

Wow. 2010 had the 6th highest number of days that were 0C or colder. So much for “Global Warming”.

Year	Days	Longest Coldwave
1879	91	18
1917	90	28
1887	83	11
1888	81	23
1892	80	14
2010	79	16
1963	78	27
1895	75	32
1909	75	23
1891	73	13

What about equal to or less than -5C? Wow! 2010 was 2nd highest with 21 days.

Year	Days	Longest Coldwave
1963	26	5
2010	21	5
1895	20	11
1892	17	7
1940	17	14
1881	16	8
1985	16	6
1879	14	7
1962	14	3
1878	13	6

USA NOAA First 5 Months (Jan-May) Were Only Ranked 56 out of 120

Published on June 12, 2014 by sunshinehours11 Comment

According to the NOAA the first 5 months (Jan-May) 2014 was ranked 56th out of 120 (120 = warmest) .

The cooling trend for Jan-May dates back to 1990. 2012 was the hot aberration.

These are the anomalies from the Jan-May average. It has been a cold start to the year for the East while warmer in the south west.

USA NOAA April 2014 – 3.01F Colder Than April 1925

Published on May 13, 2014May 13, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

According to the NOAA April 2014 was ranked 75th out of 120 April’s (120 = warmest) . It was only .66F above the 1901-2000 average.

The 3rd warmest April in US history was in 1925 when it was 3.67F above the 1901-2000 average.

Other April’s warmer than 2014: 1895,1896,1906,1908,1910,1915,1925,1930,1934,1938,1941,1942,1943,1946,1948,1949 ….

Could Climate Change Have Caused the Polar Vortex?

Published on April 20, 2014April 20, 2014 by sunshinehours13 Comments

According to Time Magazine: “Climate change skeptics are pointing to the record cold weather as evidence that the globe isn’t warming. But it could be that melting Arctic ice is making sudden cold snaps more likely—not less”

Do you want to see what a cold snap really looks like according to the NOAA?

February 1936 – Coldest Month in USA History (click on the image for the full effect)