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10 Feet Thick Ice Stops Icebreaker in Antarctic

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The Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy has been stuck in the Antarctic Ice since Monday. The Chinese Ice Breaker  Xue Long, or Snow Dragon got within six miles and it too was stopped by thick ice.

“It got stuck in the ice on Monday night — 15 days after setting out on the second leg of its research trip.

According to Turney, the ship was surrounded by ice up to nearly 10 feet (3 meters) thick. It was about 100 nautical miles east of the French base Dumont D’Urville, about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, Tasmania.

The Russian expedition ship is carrying scientists and passengers led by an Australian climate change professor.”

I find it ironic the “climate change professor” led the ship and passengers into 10 foot thick ice. He’s kind of thick. But maybe 10 feet thick ice in the summer is unusual?

 

 

 

MET Throws Hissy Fit Over Winter Temprature Predictions

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“We saw similar headlines last year and instead winter 12/13 ended up being only the 43rd coldest on record with an average temperature of 3.3C and flooding until the turn of the year.”

Technically correct, but HADCET March 2013 was the 11th coldest March since 1659.

December 2013 was 3.3C colder than the warmest December.  January 2013 was 4C colder than the warmest January . And February 2013 was 4.7C colder than the warmest February.

No sign of global warming in HADCET for the winter months.

“While we have seen a return to more normal, cooler temperatures for this time of year, this is no indication of what we can expect over the next four months with regards to temperatures ”

http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/winter-forecasting-responding-to-the-headlines/

Lets look at the last 15 years of HADCET for each month. What would you predict? 

HADCET Last 15 Years

IPCC Statement About Last 3 Decades

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“Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850”

My Response (using HADCRUT4 data)

Decade Mean Anomaly C

1850 -0.32
1860 -0.33
1870 -0.26
1880 -0.30
1890 -0.36
1900 -0.41
1910 -0.39
1920 -0.25
1930 -0.12
1940 0.00
1950 -0.06
1960 -0.05
1970 -0.08

Each of the 4 decades after the 1870s were successively COLDER at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850

Why did it take until the 1920s to get as warm as the 1870s?

Each of the 3 decades after the 1900s were successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850

But the next 3 decades after the 1940s were COLDER than the 1940s.

Why?

Explain your work.

IPCC AR5 Admits They Have No Clue What Caused the 15 Year Pause in Warming

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From the leaked AR5 Summary:

“The observed reduction in warming trend over the period 1998–2012 as compared to the period 1951–1 2012, is due in roughly equal measure to a cooling contribution from internal variability and a reduced trend in radiative forcing (medium confidence). The reduced trend in radiative forcing is primarily due to volcanic eruptions and the downward phase of the current solar cycle. However, there is low confidence in quantifying the role of changes in radiative forcing in causing this reduced warming trend. {Box 9.2; 10.3.1; Box 10.2}”

Translation: It was the sun. Or super secret volcanoes. Or something.

IPCC AR5 Admits They Have No Clue About the Arctic and the Antarctic

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From the leaked AR5 Summary:

“There is robust evidence that the downward trend in Arctic summer sea ice extent since 1979 is now better simulated than at the time of the AR4, with about one-quarter of the models showing a trend as large as, or larger than, the trend in the observations. Most models simulate a small decreasing trend in  Antarctic sea ice extent, albeit with large inter-model spread, in contrast to the small increasing trend in 30 observations. {9.4.3}”

“one-quarter of the models showing a trend as large as, or larger than, the trend in the observations”

Translation: 75% of the models were wrong about Arctic Sea Ice. But we’ll claim we got it right when we only got it right 25% of the time.

“Most models simulate a small decreasing trend in  Antarctic sea ice extent

Translation: None of the models got Antarctic Sea Ice right.

What a joke.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Beclowns Itself Over Sea Level Rise

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The LA Times and other left-wing rags are bending over backwards to try and save the AGW cult from total humiliation. With AR5 coming and newspapers coming out with stories about the “pause” that the lefty papers ignored for 15 years, they are panicking.

For example:

“Bill Patzert of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, say sea level rise is “unequivocal proof” that greenhouse gases are continuing to heat the planet, and that much of this added heat is being absorbed by the oceans.”

“But there’s been no slowdown whatsoever in sea level rise, so global warming is alive and well.”

Poor old Bill seems to be dumber than a post because he conveniently “forgets” about 2010 and 2011.

Lets go back a whole month! Another left-wing rag (the Guardian) tries to explain why sea level dropped in 2010/2011.

“Rain – in effect, evaporated ocean – fell in such colossal quantities during the Australian floods in 2010 and 2011 that the world’s sea levels actually dropped by as much as 7mm.”

Poor old Bill seems to have forgotten that sea level dropped for 2 years.

And the real joke is that if too much rain over Australia caused sea level to fall despite the massive increase in anthropogenic CO2, why couldn’t too little rain in Australia have caused a sea level rise?

Instead of doing science, the AGW Cult specializes in making up stupid excuses why their predictions are not coming true!

It’s too bad NASA and JPL have now beclowned themselves again trying to support a dying cult.

German ‘green revolution’ may cost 1 trillion euros

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“(Reuters) – Germany’s transition to renewable energy may cost up to 1 trillion euros ($1.34 trillion) in the next two decades, the environment minister said on Wednesday, piling pressure on his opponents to back plans to cap power price rises before the election.

With an eye on the September vote, Peter Altmaier, one of conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel’s most trusted ministers, has outlined plans to rein in subsidies for renewable power which have pushed up consumers’ electricity bills.

However, his plans may be doomed as the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens have reservations and could block legislation in the Bundesrat upper house.

“The costs of our energy reform and restructuring of energy provision could amount to around 1 trillion euros by the end of the 2030s,” Altmaier told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.”

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/20/us-germany-energy-idUSBRE91J0AV20130220

Self awareness and Atlantic Hurricanes

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I laughed out loud reading this story on zero Atlantic Hurricanes in August.

““The very inactive season so far has been a bit of a head-scratcher,” Crawford said in an e-mail interview. Air temperatures from the Caribbean to Africa have been warmer than normal this year, reducing the instability in the atmosphere that drives storm development, he said.”

Isn’t that funny. The excuse for why there are no hurricanes is because warmth reduces instability!

Wasn’t global warming supposed to produce more hurricanes? Do they lack self awareness? Or do they totally lack shame?

Why just 5 days ago Popular Science did a story on why Hurricanes should be named after Deniers. I won’t link to them … they are idiots.

But they said: ”

” A new petition argues that we should name storms after the people whose climate change-denying positions are exacerbating the problem. Look out for Hurricane Michele Bachmann.”

Scientists can’t pin down any specific storm to climate change, but on the whole, storms are getting worse because of (human-caused) climate change.”

But now, just 5 days later (after zero Atlantic Hurricanes in August),  if you google “global warming hurricanes” there are suddenly a bunch of stories like:

“Many scientists have blamed global warming for more intense recent hurricane seasons and for the more destructive storms that are predicted in years to come, but a new study says climate change could eventually help safeguard the U.S. Atlantic Coast from hurricanes.”

They should be ashamed to call themselves “scientists”. Snake Oil Salesman is more like it. (Look it up).

I almost wish for a record number of Hurricanes in September just to watch them all get whiplash. But I don’t really want more hurricanes.

Solar Panels = Electrocution Hazards For Firefighters

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It is time to cancel the fire insurance for any building with solar panels installed.

“A solar array with more than 7,000 photovoltaic panels lined the roof of the nearly 300,000 square-foot refrigeration facility which served as a temporary storage center for the company’s deli meats and cheeses. But the panels, while environmentally sustainable and cost-saving, may have led to the complete destruction of the warehouse.

Fighting the fire under bright blue skies Sunday, Delanco Fire Chief Ron Holt was forced to keep firefighters from attacking the blaze from the roof because of electrocution concerns.

“With all that power and energy up there, I can’t jeopardize a guy’s life for that,” said Holt. Those electrocution fears combined with concerns of a collapse forced firefighters to simply spray the building with water and foam from afar.”

“Ken Willette from the National Fire Protection Association, a nonprofit that develops standards for firefighting, says electrocution is one of the hazards firefighters are increasingly facing fighting blazes at structures where solar panels are deployed.

“Those panels, as long as there’s any kind of light present, whether it’s daylight or it’s electronic lamp light, will generate electricity,” he said.

A 2011 study from the Underwriters Laboratory found solar panels, being individual energy producers, could not be easily de-energized from a single point like other electric sources.

Researchers recommended throwing a tarp over the panels to block light, but only if crews could safely get to the area.”

From NBC Philadelphia.

Comedy Gold (until a Firefighter is actually killed)

(h/t Tom Nelson) (I hate to keep borrowing from Tom, but I can’t resist using my Mockery and Moron tag)

Less Fresh Water in the Arctic and More Rainfall in Australia Leads To Lower Sea Level and Less Ice?

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Could massive amounts of rainfall in Australia have deprived the Arctic of fresh water so there was less sea ice?

NSIDC:  “Water from the Pacific Ocean and several rivers in Russia and Canada provide fresher, less dense water to the Arctic Ocean. So the Arctic Ocean has a layer of cold, fresh water near the surface with warmer, saltier water below. This cold, fresh water layer typically allows more ice growth in the Arctic than the Antarctic.”

NCAR: ” when three atmospheric patterns came together over the Indian and Pacific oceans, they drove so much precipitation over Australia in 2010 and 2011 that the world’s ocean levels dropped measurably.”