'Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that'
19 Comments
Leave a comment
Best Canadian Blog
2004,
2005,
2006,
2007
About Kate
Why this blog?
Until this moment
I have been forced
to listen while media
and politicians alike
have told me
"what Canadians think".
In all that time they
never once asked.
This is just the voice of an ordinary Canadian yelling back at the radio - "You don't speak for me."
homepageemail Kate
(goes to a private mailserver in Europe) I can't answer or use every tip, but all are appreciated!
Support SDA
I am not a registered charity. I cannot issue tax receipts.
Economics for the Disinterested
...a fast-paced polar
bear attack thriller!

Want lies?
Hire a regular consultant.
Want truth?
Hire an asshole.
Click to inquire about rates.
Dow Jones
What They Say About SDA
"Smalldeadanimals doesn't speak for the people of Saskatchewan" Former Sask Premier Lorne Calvert"I got so much traffic after your post my web host asked me to buy a larger traffic allowance." Dr.Ross McKitrick
Holy hell, woman. When you send someone traffic, you send someone TRAFFIC. My hosting provider thought I was being DDoSed. - Sean McCormick
"The New York Times link to me yesterday [...] generated one-fifth of the traffic I normally get from a link from Small Dead Animals." Kathy Shaidle
"Thank you for your link. A wave of your Canadian readers came to my blog! Really impressive." Juan Giner - INNOVATION International Media Consulting Group
I got links from the Weekly Standard, Hot Air and Instapundit yesterday - but SDA was running at least equal to those in visitors clicking through to my blog. Jeff Dobbs
"You may be a nasty right winger, but you're not nasty all the time!" Warren Kinsella
"Go back to collecting your welfare livelihood."Michael E. Zilkowsky
Intelliweather
Seismic Map
Comments Policy
Best Of SDA
Hide The Decline
The Bottle Genie
(ClimateGate links)
You Might Be A Liberal
Uncrossing The Line
Bob Fife: Knuckledragger
A Modest Proposal (NP)
Settled Science Series
Y2Kyoto Series
SDA: Reader Occupation Survey
Brett Lamb Sheltered Workshop
Flakes On A Plane
All Your Weather Are Belong To Us
Song Of The Sled
The Raise A Flag Debacle
(Now on Youtube!)
(.mwv Video)
Abuse Ruins Life Of Girl
Trudeaupiate
Kleptocrat Jeans
Child Labour
I Concede
Small Dead Feminist
Protein Hoser: THK Interview
The Werewolf Extinction
Dear Laura (VRWC)
We Wait
Blogging The Oscars
Jackson Converts To Islam
Just Shut The HELL Up
Manipulating Condi
Gay Equality Rights
Blogroll
News Aggregators, Resources
Drudge Report
Bourque (Canada)
Memri (Middle East)
Newsmax
Military News Spotlight
Watching America
Int. Free Press Society
Newsbeat1
Rawlco local news
Dates in History
Newseum
Oilprice.com
My Westman
Favorites
Instapundit
NRO The Corner
Weekly Standard
Outside The Beltway
ScrappleFace
Day By Day
James Lileks
Hugh Hewitt
Mark Steyn
Belmont Club
Powerline
Den Beste (archived)
American Thinker
Victor Hanson
Michelle Malkin
Michael Yon (Iraq Imbed)
Tim Blair (Oz)
Protein Wisdom
Captain Capitalism
Kathy Shaidle
David Warren
Damian Penny
Publius
Cjunk
Conservative Grapevine
Newsosaur
Edward Michael George
Long War Journal
Eric Anderson
Charles Adler
Inconvenient Science
Climategate 2.0:
The emails unredacted
Search the database
Climate Audit
Prometheus
Planet Gore
Icecap
Anthony Watts
Climate Debate
HK Climate
Climate Depot
Anthropogenic Global Bias
Yanks, mostly
Professor Bainbridge
Stephen Green
Wizbang
Daniel Drezner
Dean Esmay
Right Wing News
Patterico
Medienkritic (Germany)
I Could Be Wrong
Mystery Pollster
Maggies Farm
Maxed Out Mama
Bill Roggio
Musing Minds
Pajamas Media
Newsbusters
Blackfive
Day By Day
Cox And Forkum (archives)
Brussels Journal (EU)
Argghhh!
Ed Driscoll
Don Surber
Obsidian Wings
Tygrrrr Express
Brutally Honest
Karl Rove
Tom Nelson
Call Me Stormy
The Last Tradition
Canadian, eh?
CPC Youtube Channel
The Shotgun
Bow. James Bow
Ghost Of A Flea
The Black Rod
Blog Quebecois
Catprint
Calgary Grit
Proud To Be Canadian
Fighting for Taxpayers
Quotulatiousness
Arcologist
Uncle Meat
Editorial Times
Halls of Macadamia
Full Comment (NP)
Andrew Keyes
Brad Farquhar
Steynian
Blazing Cat Fur
myWestman
Inspiringyoutothink
Prince Arthur Herald
Freelance Conservative
November 2016
Recent Comments
- peterj: Low arctic is the tundra area. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/349646/Low-Arctic read more
- Justthinkin: Oh.And where is the "low" Arctic?? read more
- Justthinkin: So what's the big deal? According to greenies,ice in the read more
- sasquatch: Yeah well, it was commented on WUWT, that satellite microwave read more
- dizzy: Only three clicks to the source where you can add read more
- Jay: The trouble with the skeptic side is their lack of read more
- Joe: Wisdom contains a healthy skepticism of the pronouncements of experts. read more
- John Lewis: Yes, I have trouble with this too. It isn't enough read more
- John Lewis: Meanwhile, at least three have died in cold weather in read more
- peterj: If we would actually get some global warming in Canada read more










Damn those computer models. Garbage in = garbage out. The IPCC has already down graded global warming to climate change. A safe bet since climate has always changed. They are keeping global cooling in reserve and CO2 as the cause for any of the three. Taxing nothing is something they will hang on to at all cost. As long as the POTUS believes and can't take a hour of his busy vacation and golf schedule to question this :
http://co2insanity.com/2011/12/15/eight-questions-to-kill-the-kyoto-climate-protocol-in-2012/
The windmills will continue to be built and the solar panels will continue to drag down the economy. That's the problem when a dumb POTUS surrounds himself with like minded advisers and "experts" that are actually clueless and know their pay cheques depend on a high level of panic. All good means looking for a new job. The scam of the century continues because there's billions of dollars at stake and it has little to do with the planet. The public is onside because they have been thoroughly brainwashed and brainwashing is so hard to reverse.
peterj
" The scam of the century continues because there's billions of dollars at stake and it has little to do with the planet. The public is onside because they have been thoroughly brainwashed and brainwashing is so hard to reverse."
jeezus peter, I read your last line first and thought you were referring to the RC church
Yeah damn dem catliks and der church. Deys da problems wid da wurl fer shur.
Sure wish that arctic ice would melt faster so we could count on a few warmer days for the period we call summer. This summer has been wet and cool in these parts with the prevailing wind currents from the North. We really need to hear from the Nutty Twins, Gore and Suzuki, they will have the answers all MADE UP.
The trouble with the skeptic side is their lack of accuracy.The graph in the article, which I look at almost daily, shows the mean daily temp from 80 degrees north to the pole. The freeze line is for fresh water not for sea water. Yes the mean did dip to the 0 Celsius line for one day but then went up. The mean has been running below the long term mean for months now and the sea ice anomaly for the last while has been decreasing(while the southern anomaly has been increasing).
I find it interesting that the Antarctic archipelago, which the warmists have pointed out as being ice free for years, has for the last two years been surrounded by sea ice.
Why isn't Mansbridge up there on an ice breaker like he has in the past reporting on Global Warming.
I guess he doesn't want to make himself out as the fool he is.
I work outside every day. The trees where changing colour 2 weeks ago, half way through July. Expect an early brutal winter again.
In Edmonton we have had in all maybe 1 & a half weeks without rain or lower than average temperatures.
....but we just had another "be scared" article.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Melting+Arctic+threatens+entire+marine+food+Study/8738066/story.html
This climate clap trap is nothing but a political / financial propaganda mill.. They sit and wait for the opportune moment to tell their brain dead followers what they wanna hear.. Ohhh unprecedented melting with a shot of normal boring summer melt water.. Please send us money and support our supporters (windmills and solar) so we can continue to bankrupt your government..
Then they will move on to the next tax funded propaganda piece..
Its odd that the west is up to its eyeballs in communist green idiots while Russia the home of Communist idiots is free of them.. Its like they opened the gates and let them all out.. We won the cold war but they won the warm war..
Anyway.. A long cold winter is on its way.. Summer was only able to buy us 2 weeks of hot weather.. The thinking man would chop twice the amount of wood he normally would, to keep his family from freezing to death..
Drill baby drill... and fund those green idiots because the are to important to be wrong..
If we would actually get some global warming in Canada I would gladly pay a carbon tax. It's so annoying to have the IPCC promise us a better future and decades later still fail to deliver on their promises. Free that sequestered .038% trace gas and give us a chance to enjoy a longer summer I say. Our winter heating bills are far too high and our air conditioners are under utilized. All this nonsense about 1 or 2 degrees over a hundred years is taking far too long. Mr. President....LET THAT CARBON GO. Think of the children.
Meanwhile, at least three have died in cold weather in Brazil:
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/26-07-2013/125278-brazil_cold-0/
Yes, I have trouble with this too. It isn't enough to grasp every skeptical report without careful analysis. I attempt to look at things I do know - the negligible rise in sea level, which living in a port city I can see for myself; the lack of much in the way of a trend in weather in St. John's (perhaps less wind; the winters seem as vicious as they ever were; we have had some hot weather but not the consecutive days of uncomfortably hot weather we had for several years in the `80s; and so forth). As for news, one notes the disastrously false predictions of warm winters in the UK. A major point is that the global climate models have proved to be WRONG, whether there is a small upward trend in temperature or not.
Wisdom contains a healthy skepticism of the pronouncements of experts.
The trouble with the skeptic side is their lack of accuracy.
----------------------
With no respect at all.. The warmist side is wrong in all of their computer models.. They took a few warm years in the 1980s and ran it up into a huge government subsidised scam..
The skeptics have since the beginning simply stated that AGW (the out of control kind) is simply not happening.. No need to know all the answers (we may never know) to know a smoking pile of political activism when we see it..
15 years plus of flat temperature is long enough to discount the theory of AGW.. Wind and Solar are a complete failure with the present technology.. Smart Meters are for people to dumb to realise that the investment in our power grid in the last 20 years has been in the wrong direction.. Use less and pay way more all dressed up for idiot green media consumption..
It should be called the leftist bad investment meter or the gosh we are sorry meter.. How about the don't worry I will lube it up good meter.. You know there is big trouble in propaganda land when they call it Smart Meter.. Its anything but smart..
Only three clicks to the source where you can add three more days to that total. [summer isn't over, Mr Moreno]
Here you can check each year since 1958
Checking some, it has been a cool summer up there. The "melting" profile is remarkably constant but, given that the water & first year ice [which is most in extent these days] is salty, the actual melting should be extended beyond that "90 day" period. [As is obvious from this graph.] The loss of ice occurs for about twice the 90--day period of average C>0 temperatures.
Yeah well, it was commented on WUWT, that satellite microwave scans can not distinguish open water from melt pools on the ice pack. It is not unusual for these melt pools to be a foot or more deep and extend over vast areas....which swiftly refreeze when the sun gets lower.....
This leaves spectroscopic analysis to distinguish the "white" melt water from the darker green open water....which is limited due to cloud cover.
The result is that these satellite surveys have fairly low credibility/accuracy.
So what's the big deal? According to greenies,ice in the Antartica melts at -30C,so in the Artic they should be ice free at -15C. Oh.And water boils at +25C.
You just can't fix stupid.Well,you can,but that would decrease the world's population by about 95%.
Oh.And where is the "low" Arctic??
Low arctic is the tundra area.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/349646/Low-Arctic