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Huge Increase in Sunshine Reaching Earth – 12.5 times the CO2 warming

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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.

Ozone Hole Excuse For Record Antarctic Ice Blows Up in “Scientists” Faces

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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.

AGW Arctic Sea Ice Propaganda Ignores Area

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AGW Arctic Sea Ice Propaganda in 4 Easy Steps with an added bonus.

The Yellow is the amount of ice where 2012 was higher than 2007.

The Pink is the amount of ice where 2007 was higher than 2012.

One of those areas is an indicator of the end of the world according to AGW. The other area is to be ignored.

USCRN vs NOAA September 2012

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USCRN vs NOAA September 2012 update.

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 September 2012 for the 48 continental states.

16 states show USCRN stations warmer than NOAA (bold) and 32 show NOAA warmer than USCRN.

NOAA – USCRN = NOAA state temperature average minus USCRN state temperature average.

Ignoring area weighting, the NOAA temperature averaged 0.80F warmer than USCRN.

State NOAA USCRN NOAA – USCRN
Alabama 73 71.72 1.28
Arizona 73.7 74.61 -0.91
Arkansas 73.1 71.24 1.86
California 72.7 72.37 0.33
Colorado 59.6 59.76 -0.16
Florida 79.5 80.36 -0.86
Georgia 74.1 74.97 -0.87
Idaho 59.3 61.88 -2.58
Illinois 64.7 61.52 3.18
Indiana 64.1 64.76 -0.66
Iowa 61.8 63.14 -1.34
Kansas 67.6 66.02 1.58
Kentucky 67 67.19 -0.19
Louisiana 77.2 75.83 1.37
Maine 56.4 55.58 0.82
Michigan 58.5 54.86 3.64
Minnesota 57.1 54.23 2.87
Mississippi 74.2 71.24 2.96
Missouri 66.7 65.84 0.86
Montana 58.4 55.72 2.68
Nebraska 63.4 62.83 0.57
Nevada 65.4 67.52 -2.12
New Hampshire 58.3 59.45 -1.15
New Mexico 66.1 64.17 1.93
New York 60 59.63 0.37
North Carolina 69.8 66.26 3.54
North Dakota 57.2 57.98 -0.78
Ohio 63.2 62.24 0.96
Oklahoma 74.1 71.73 2.37
Oregon 60.9 61.34 -0.44
Pennsylvania 62.3 64.4 -2.1
Rhode Island 62.9 61.88 1.02
South Carolina 73.4 74.03 -0.63
South Dakota 62.5 61.34 1.16
Tennessee 69 64.22 4.78
Texas 76.7 76.84 -0.14
Utah 64.1 63.75 0.35
Virginia 67.1 68.36 -1.26
Washington 60.6 58.28 2.32
West Virginia 64 57.2 6.8
Wisconsin 57.8 57.56 0.24
Wyoming 58.3 58.22 0.08

NSIDC Ignored Antarctica in 2006 Too

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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent set an all time record in 2012. The previous record was set in 2006. In 2006 there were 30 days where the ice extent was over 19 million sq km. That record has not been broken and was 9 days more than the previous record holder (1998).

So what did the NSIDC have to say about it in 2006?

Nothing.

They mentioned the Arctic a lot. And Al Gore’s movie. And that there was going to be an open house. But they ignored Antarctica. If they were scientists and not propagandists shouldn’t they be interested in both poles and maximum records too?

 

 

28 days of 19 million sq km Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

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Only 9 years in the satellite era have seen Antarctic Sea Ice Extent hit 19 million sq km.  2006 had 30 days. In the last 2 days  2012 has trend up again over 19 million and put it within 2 days of tying the all time record. Aside from 1980, all of those years have been since 1998 which some people claim have been the hottest years in the history of human beings. Antarctic Sea Ice Extent disagrees.

Year Days Above 19 million Last Day Above 19 million
2006 30 283
2012 28 281
1998 21 281
2005 13 278
2009 11 271
2007 9 275
2004 6 254
2000 5 274
1980 3 269

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