The Northwest Passage after decades of so-called global warming has a dramatic 60% more Arctic ice this year than at the same time last year. The future dreams of dozens of adventurous sailors are now threatened. A scattering of yachts attempting the legendary Passage are caught by the ice, which has now become blocked at both ends and the transit season may be ending early.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Corn Belt
Is Climate Change Causing Climate Models to Fail?
“Climate change has made it increasingly difficult to predict climate change,” says Dr. Manyard Michael, the lead scientist behind the study. “The current 16 year pause in global warming illustrates just how serious this situation has been; if not for climate change, we now know that we would have been able to accurately predict the current break in warming and clearly show that climate change is actually accelerating faster than forecast – not stopping as climate change is making it appear to those outside of the climate science community.” Dr. Michael also noted that they stumbled on this important finding almost by accident. “We just happened to notice that the higher carbon dioxide concentrations climbed, the more we had to adjust the data to get the results we knew to be right, and the more we adjusted the data, the bigger the error in the models. It’s a very strong positive feedback.”
Read the rest….
Related: Al Gore likens skeptics to racists, slavery, homophobes.
h/t Rob H
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The day the Global Warming death spiral began
…something that caught my eye was the drop in mid 2011 (or precisely — July 29, 2011) when media stories fell by half, a step-change fall from which they never recovered.
Lots more at the link.
Testing a Hypothesis
So, how’s that working out?
Xinhua News Agency – 1 March 2008
“If Norway’s average temperature this year equals that in 2007, the ice cap in the Arctic will all melt away, which is highly possible judging from current conditions,” Orheim said.
[Dr. Olav Orheim – Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat]
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Canada.com – 16 November 2007
“According to these models, there will be no sea ice left in the summer in the Arctic Ocean somewhere between 2010 and 2015.
“And it’s probably going to happen even faster than that,” said Fortier,””
[Professor Louis Fortier – Université Laval, Director ArcticNet]
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Mock Obama Day observed in Georgetown: Zero Attendance for Climate Change Rally
h/t Rich
From The People Who Bring You “Global Warming”
Discovery‘s Shark Week Web page and Facebook and Twitter sites filled after the show with complaints from fans who objected to the program, saying they were surprised a science-based network seriously discussed the existence of a fearsome creature when there is no evidence it exists today.
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Arctic Ice Cap
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss America’s Forests
… in order to replace the use of coal in the UK, power stations are being refitted to burn wood chips. But the UK doesn’t have enough forests to supply the wood chips, (biofuel) so…
Wait for it…
Wait…
“Panel calls for protecting world’s largest forest”
“before oil, gas, mining and lumber companies develop areas and extract natural resources…”
Er, no.
h/t John C
Charminfreude
“Attempts by Germany’s main opposition party, the center-left Social Democrats, to close the gap with their competitors were once again hampered on Thursday when 8,000 supposedly eco-friendly campaign posters turned to pulp in the rain.“
h/t Bob H.
The Sound Of Settled Science
WUWT: Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment”
Y2Kyoto: Tow, Tow, Tow Your Boat
Vancouver-based Last First expedition hopes to “reveal the shocking effects of climate change on the Arctic.”
The temperature in Tuktoyaktuk is -1 C, and there’s a strong northeasterly wind blowing in the morning. Locals tell us it should be 15-20 C at this time of year.
“The bugs should be bouncing off your head,” explained Eilleen, who came down to the beach to visit with us.
Strange weather has defined the year, we are told. It’s been colder than usual, and the ice has been very slow in going out.
h/t Fred
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Arctic Ice Cap
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss Lloyd’s of London
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Ernst & Young, 2008 – Climate change tops insurance risk list
Lloyds of London, 2013 – Climate change ranks 32nd in business risk
Below “piracy”.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss My Morning Timmy’s
Remember when CO2 was going to cause coffee to go extinct?
With global output exceeding demand for a fourth year, accelerating sales will drive prices down 11 percent to $1.08 a pound by Dec. 31, according to the median of 18 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
“The lower real will most certainly help exports, making Brazil a much more aggressive seller,” said Rasmus Wolthers, a trader at Wolthers & Associates, a brokerage in Santos, Brazil. “There’s a lot of coffee in Brazil, and there isn’t enough space to store it all, so producers will have to sell. I expect to see much more aggressive sales offers.”
Y2Kyoto: Death Valley Daze
Because it serves their purposes: “Why does the NPS maintain the electronic sign that shows erroneous readings, such as what was highlighted in an LA Times story during the recent temperature spike?”
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Spiegel: Germany Blocks CO2 Reduction Deal
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
Always the end result when “Buy High, Sell Low” meets “Running out of other peoples money”. So, instead of just being a huge drain on the public purse, it’s also going to cause another bank run because too many people borrowed against the gov’t subsidies.
Coming to a Province near you whose name may be Ontario.
This quote is classic,
“The current policy is harmful because the sector was maturing and close to becoming competitive without any aid but has suddenly totally collapsed,” Izurzun said.
If only they hadn’t invented SUV’s
A short history of flooding in Alberta.