Better luck next year;

We (the world) didn’t have an unusual number of floods, we don’t seem to have any major droughts going on, total polar ice is unremarkable, arctic ice bottomed out well within the tolerances slowly being established by its absurdly short baseline, antarctic ice set a maximum record (but just barely, hardly newsworthy) in ITS absurdly short baseline, the LTT temperatures were downright boring, and in spite of the absurdly large spikes in GASTA in GISS vs HADCRUT4 on a so-called “temperature anomaly” relative to a GAST baseline nobody can measure to within a whole degree centigrade, neither one of them did more than bounce around in near-neutral, however much the “trend” in GISS is amplified every second or third month by its extra-high endpoint.

I was told there’d be no math: How long before we reach the catastrophic 2°C warming?

Via Climate Depot;

A paper published today in Quaternary Science Reviews reconstructs the size of four glaciers in Alaska over the past 1500-2000 years. For each of the four glaciers, the authors find the termination point at the end of the record in the late 20th century was approximately the same as during the Medieval Warm Period ~1,000 years ago. According to the paper, the data “supports solar irradiance as the primary pacemaker for centennial-scale fluctuations of mid-latitude valley glaciers prior to the 20th century.” The authors find all four glaciers advanced during the Little Ice Age, which was the coldest period of the past 10,000 years, and have regressed during the recovery from the LIA to termination points similar to those during the Medieval Warm Period.