Shocking Report – small dead animals

The following report is enough to give any AGW “denier” reason to step back and reconsider:

There are also worrisome reports of significant temperature increases, with anomalies of several degrees. Also in the report is the mention of ice free open sea of almost 2 million square kilometers, which is termed as “unprecendented in the history of the Arctic”.
It is shocking to read. I urge readers to have a look at some of the excerpts I’ve posted.
First a map. Spitsbergen is part of Svalbard, which is part of Norway.

… read it at WUWT.
Update: Receding glaciers reveal remains of ancient decadent culture.

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Heh, read that at WUWT yesterday. A truly eye-opening essay on alarming arctic melt!

Read it also,colin. What I’m reconsidering is ….how do we cut this AGW religion off from taxpayers money???

Al Gore’s Weather (AGW):
This “coolest” is even shockiner. Tucson, Texas was here Ah first met Gaia. That was in 1933.
Boys, was she hot.
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“April was coolest one since 1999
This April was the coolest one in Tucson since 1999, the National Weather Service reported Monday.
The average temperature for April 2010 was 65.4 degrees, slightly cooler than the normal average April temperature, 66 degrees, the weather service reported. The official recording for rainfall also was slightly below normal. The station at Tucson International Airport received 0.23 inches of rain in April, compared to a normal of 0.28.
The temperature still hasn’t officially hit 90 degrees in Tucson, which is very late compared to recent years. Since 2000, the average first 90 degree temperature has been on March 26th.
The high temperature could hit 90 on Tuesday or Wednesday, the service forecasts. Either day would be among the dozen latest dates for a year’s first 90-degree temperature in recorded Tucson history.
The latest 90-degree temperature ever recorded in Tucson was on May 16 in both 1933 and 1905.”
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_ba102118-570f-11df-aba0-001cc4c03286.html

Watts quote from the 1943 pamphlet starts with a famous name —
// According to the testimony of Wegener, all the Greenland glaciers which descend into Northwest Bay & Disko Bay, have been receding since approximately the beginning of the present century. In particular the Jakobshavn glacier receded about 20 m during the period 1880 to 1902. […] //
One commenter gives an update link which provides some quantitative context —
// Jakobshavn Isbrae is located on the west coast of Greenland at Latitude 69 N. The ice front, where the glacier calves into the sea, receded more than 40 km between 1850 and 2006. Between 1850 and 1964 the ice front retreated at a steady rate of about 0.3 km/yr, after which it occupied approximately the same location until 2001, when the ice front began to recede again, but far more rapidly at about 3 km/yr.
[…]
Note: In this image, the location of the successive calving fronts of the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier between 1851 and 2009 are overlain on a Landsat image from 7/29/2009. //
So the 1943 pamphlet got the direction right, but underestimated the pace.
The general “logic” of this effort — If something varied in the past [ice, CO2 etc] then the fact that it is varying now can’t mean anything.
And if you DO value logic, never read wattsupwiththat without reading wotsupwiththat
Bonus: The Wegener Institute.

Wait until the ice sheets start advancing again . . the wing nuts, pinheads and eco-grifters cringing in fear about glacial recession will be on their knees praying for such a beneficial outcome as shrinking ice sheets.
On the other hand, 10,000 feet of ice over downtown Toronto will surly take of of the progressive latte liberal capital of Canada.
Ahhhhh just like the goods old days, 20,000 years ago.

// Ahhhhh just like the goods old days, 20,000 years ago. //
Any one for a latte?

Try that again.
Any one for a latte?

AlGW is unavailable for comments. Try Suzuki’s org.
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“The land that spring forgot: Alberta hit with more snow
EDMONTON — Alberta residents could be forgiven for thinking this week was Christmas — and not a May day — as a spring blizzard slammed the province Tuesday.
Winds gusting up to 86 km/h were reported in the small city of Brooks, 150 kilometres east of Calgary, and power was out in several locations across the southern part of the province.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2985852

That hockey stick graph is suffering from academic erectile dysfuntion.
It’s sagging in the middle and drooping at the end, but fear not, the UN IPCC is providing all the political Viagra needed to get the job done since Al Gore’s date rape drug isn’t working so well.

AGW is a fish thrown out of the water gasping for life. Yet still Governments cannot hide the dismay. That this is a con. They wanted this to raise taxes for more legacy projects dedicated to themselves. More kick backs & enforced statism. Like porno addicts they just can’r shut down the dream factory of wishful thinking of absolute control. From toilets to the Tea you drink. Unlimited monies & a perpetual cincture for Climate scam frauds.
JMO

Maz, last thur we had 7 foot drifts here in Southern AB at 4500 feet, now here on Tues aft it is snowing very hard again, and still Ed Stemach cannot go down the hall to Rob Renners office and throw the globull warming believer environMENTAL minister out, preferably without a coat today. Sad to see all the money wasted on this SCAM and the schools and hospitals go without necessary material. If all polititians had one tenth of the balls of Vaclav Klaus, this SCAM would have died long ago, voters will remember.

Man, that’s one bigass heart shaped swimmin’ hole. But seriously folks, since glaciers have been melting and disappearing completely from many places on the face of the earth since the end of the last ice age, leaving geological features such as lakes and boulder fields and even odd things like kettles (holes bored in solid rock from swirling water and gravel from melting glacial ice), why are these people so amazed? I mean, I’d pay a good buck for a bag of ice that lasted 10,000 years to keep my beer cold.

Thanks Paul, that’s a serious wake-up call. If the Spitzbergen glaciers are collapsing that catastrophically now, how bad is it going to be 57 years from now, in 2010?

We had 2 inches of snow here in Whitehorse, Saturday morning. The weather station, on TV, predicts temperatures from 3 to 10 degrees C. higher than reality week after week. Weird.

There have been weather stations on Greenland for way over a century. The warmest year in recorded history for Greenland was 1942.
Some real interesting reading is the history of the Greenland patrol….basically the US Coast Guard chasing down German weather stations….using dog teams, aircraft and a coupla armed ICE BREAKERS…the Eastwind and the Southwind… (perhaps the world’s first).

[quote]Like porno addicts they just can’r shut down the dream factory of wishful thinking of absolute control. From toilets to the Tea you drink. Unlimited monies & a perpetual cincture for Climate scam frauds[quote] Revnant Dream
Rev, You get the cigar for getting into their mind set…,But AGW is dead; only the mental midgets keep up the foolish beat..
YES they are perverts! Well said!