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The
Natural Medieval Warming Melts Arctic Northwest Passage Sea Ice, But Modern
Warming Does Not

Over recent years, the Arctic has
warmed much like it did during the natural Medieval Warming Period - during
prior warm phases, mother nature melted the Northwest Passage sea ice
completely, but not yet in the modern era

(source image1, image2, image3 - click to enlarge)

Read here. Canadian Arctic experts have conclusively determined that
the Arctic's Northwest Passage has frequently been devoid of sea ice during
summer months.

This lack of sea ice was the result of natural
warming that produced excessive temperatures. They conclude that temperatures
during the Medieval Period, and multiple earlier periods, were significantly
warmer than modern temperatures - from 1 to 3 degrees warmer.

"Numerous sites have been surveyed along the length of the
Northwest Passage. The eastern and western approaches have become reliably
ice-free in summer under historical climatic conditions, whereas in the central
part summer sea ice has been persistent. The radiocarbon-dated bowhead whale
remains indicate that the whales were able to range along the length of the
Passage during two intervals (centered on 9000 years ago and 1000 years ago) and
that they were able to access the central part from the east about 4000 years
ago. During the first of these intervals (9000 before present) ice cores
indicate that summer temperatures were about 3°C warmer than mid 20th Century.
Therefore, a warming of 3°C exceeds the opening threshold. Medieval Warm Period
temperatures were probably about 1°C warmer than mid-20th Century, which is
likely close to threshold conditions for an opening of the
passage."

When compared to the historical and ancient
past, the modern Arctic warming and subsequent summer sea ice melt is not
unusual, and is likely the result of the same natural climatic patterns and
oscillations that produced such conditions in the past.

As revealed in the adjacent series of images,
the modern sea melt (image3 at the bottom) still has not freed the Northwest
Passage of summer ice as the experts believe the earlier warming periods easily
did (image1 and image2).

Conclusions: Modern
Arctic warming is not unusual versus the Medieval
Warming. Current Arctic and Northwest Passage sea ice
melt is less than what occurred in the past, per the empirical evidence. Since
both modern and historical Arctic warming, and sea ice melting, are similar, one
can surmise that natural warming is the principal cause of today's Arctic
conditions. Plus, anthropogenic black soot and greenhouse gases may have
exacerbated the current sea ice melting.

Previous climate-history and polar-sea-ice-sheet postings. Historical and modern temperature charts.

August 30, 2012 at 03:50
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Newest
Greenland Research Indicates Why IPCC's Climate Models Are Wrong About Sea Level
Rise

Almost all of the climate doomsday
scientists have predicted that coastal areas, such as New York City, would soon
be submerged by the rising sea levels - obviously, these hysterical IPCC climate
model and "expert" predictions have failed and the Greenland researchers now
know why

(image source)

Read here. The IPCC was long ago charged with the objective of
"proving" that greenhouse gases were the cause of global warming. The IPPC also
took the lead in the well financed campaign to frighten the world's populace
with scary disaster scenarios due to CO2-induced warming.

One such climate calamity that the IPCC (and
multiple other doomsday alarmists) promulgate is that the coastal regions of the
world would be swamped by the melting polar ice sheets.

However, like all other doomsday predictions,
the seas rapidly and relentlessly rising and then submerging areas such as New
York City has not happened, and is not even close to happening as the adjacent
chart indicates. So, why have the sea level predictions failed so
spectacularly?

Greenland.

The experts on Greenland's ice sheet have now
discovered that the climate models are entirely wrong about the whole concept of
ice sheet melting:

"Danish researchers are calling for the models used it [to]
forecast sea level rise to be changed after their research shows that
Greenland’s ice-cap is not melting more quickly, but rather in bursts...The
group’s research, which has been published this week in the Science magazine,
shows that the speed at which Greenland’s ice-cap melts, rises and falls in
different periods...Up to now scientists have believed that Greenland’s ice was
melting faster and have used the hypothesis in developing many of the climate
models that are now used to calculate future sea-water levels.“The bottom line
is that it’s not going to happen as quickly as people have
feared...”"

Previous sea-level
and failed-prediction postings. Additonal sea-level
charts.

August 27, 2012 at 05:31
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Climate
Models: The Penguin Extinction Study Proven To Be Really Crappy Science

A new study by climate doomsday scientists came to the conclusion
that the penguins would become extinct because climate models predicted warmer
temperatures and less ice in Antarctica - however, the actual empirical evidence
finds climate models to be wrong

(image source)

Read here and here. The IPCC's global and regional climate models are based
on a high climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 levels. As a result, the
models predict a warmer Antarctica with a loss of sea ice.

Using the IPCC models' output as input, another
computer model thus predicted the extinction of Antarctica's penguins.
Essentially, to be blunt, this is crappy science based on the familiar data
processing concept known as 'GIGO'.

To the surprise of no one, with the exception
of most lame stream science reporters, the GIGO penguin study has now been
harpooned by actual empirical evidence and Antarctica climate reality.

"Twenty-year-old
models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been
compared with reality for the first time - and found to be wrong, so much so
that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all..."Previous ocean models
... have predicted temperatures and melt rates that are too high, suggesting a
significant mass loss in this region that is actually not taking place,"...The
team’s results show that water temperatures are far lower than computer models
predicted ...

"According to a statement from the American
Geophysical Union, announcing the new research: "It turns out that past studies, which were based on
computer models without any direct data for comparison or guidance,
overestimate the water temperatures and extent of melting beneath the Fimbul
Ice Shelf. This has led to the misconception...that the ice shelf is losing
mass at a faster rate than it is gaining mass, leading to an overall loss of
mass."

Conclusions: Incredibly
crappy penguin study based solely on GIGO computer
simulations dies on the harpoon of actual empirical evidence.
Antarctica and the surrounding seas are not appreciably
warming from human CO2 emissions as predicted by the IPCC's climate
models.

Previous glaciers-ice-Arctic/Antarctica, climate-model and species-extinction
postings.

June 26, 2012 at 10:01
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Mainstream
Media Bias, Climate Change: A Report On Arctic Sea Ice By Left-Liberal News
Outlet Confirms Anti-Science Opinions

Mainstream Media Bias, Climate
Change: The anti-science opinions of the left-liberal-progressive mindset is on
full display in the Guardian's recent report on Arctic sea
ice

(click on image to enlarge, source)

Read here. That the anti-science and anti-empirical evidence bias
runs rampant in the mainstream media is now taken for fact. Whether it's the UK,
US or Australia, the left-liberal dominated media fear-mongering on climate
change and global warming, tossing empirical evidence out the window, leaves
lots to be desired.

The latest example is the Guardian, which
reports that Arctic sea ice has
declined by 75% over the last few decades - a very scary sounding decline. And
they can get away with this because their readers are incredibly susceptible to
most types of anti-science propaganda, such as the recent claims that vaccines cause autism.

In the Arctic sea ice case though, a 75%
decline would be represented by the red line in the adjacent chart - sea ice has
never reached that level no matter what the mainstream press "reports." Instead,
recent sea ice decline is represented by the blue curve, which by early spring
2012 had recovered to its 30-year average.

"The Guardian managed to outdo itself in it’s latest foray into
global warming, claiming that Arctic sea ice has declined by three quarters in
the last three decades. In a series of “factoids” following an interview with
pop celebrity and latest Greenpeace spokesperson for the Arctic ice, Jarvis
Cocker, Lucy Seigle, the Guardian’s environment reporter, informed readers that:
"Of the Arctic sea ice, 75% has been lost over the past 30 years. Last year saw
sea-ice levels plummet to the second-lowest since records began. It is estimated
that the North Pole could be ice-free in the summer within the next 10-20
years.""

Conclusions for mainstream media bias: Climate
change reporting by large media outlets is totally untrustworthy. The
left-liberal-progressive political agenda prevents an accurate reporting of
global warming empirical evidence. Instead of receiving objective journalism,
readers and viewers are constantly subjected to fear-mongering,
anti-science opinions.

Previous mainstream-media-bias and sea-ice/glacier/ice-sheet postings.

June 03, 2012 at 04:09
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Global
Sea Level Rise: Melting Glaciers Have Tiny Impact On Sea Levels - Maybe 3.7
Inches By 2100

Alarmists have long predicted that
Greenland's melting glaciers were causing an "accelerating" global sea level
rise - new study confirms global warming alarmists
wrong

(image source)

Read here. The predicted "accelerating" sea level rise has been a
fearmongering staple of the IPCC's global warming alarmists and the mainstream
press for decades. For pure hysteria sake, nothing beats the image of flooding
populous coastal areas with the intent to frighten the public.

Unfortunately for the alarmists, the empirical
evidence does not support their grossly speculative predictions from discredited
climate models.

Firstly, the "accelerating" global sea level
rise has
not taken place as multiple research studies have documented.

Secondly, the alarmist creed that the melting
of Greenland's glaciers would cause devastating ocean rises has been completely
debunked by a new peer reviewed study on some 200+ glaciers on the world's
largest island.

"...titled “21st Century Evolution of Greenland Outlet Glacier
Velocities” [Moon et al.] examined the flow characteristics from nearly 200
glaciers across Greenland for the period 2000-2010 as analyzed using synthetic
aperture radar data collected from various satellites...And what they
found...was that the patterns of flow rate changes across Greenland were
complex, both in space and time. Glaciers that were accelerating during a few
years were found to be decelerating in others. Some accelerating glaciers were
found in close proximity to other glaciers that were decelerating..."Finally,
our observations have implications for recent work on sea level rise...Our wide
sampling of actual 2000 to 2010 changes shows that glacier acceleration across
the ice sheet remains far below these estimates, suggesting that sea level rise
associated with Greenland glacier dynamics remains well below the low-end
scenario (9.3 cm [3.7 inches] by 2100) at present...Our result is consistent
with findings from recent numerical flow models."" [Twila Moon, Ian Joughin, Ben Smith, Ian Howat 2012: Science]

Conclusion: Accelerating global sea level
rise from melting glaciers is not happening as predicted. The retreat
of Greenland's glaciers is not a major contributor to sea level increases and
there exists no empirical evidence that this will change by year
2100.

May 13, 2012 at 05:21
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Global
Warming Scam: Arctic Experts Determine That Total of 72 Decades Had Polar
Warming Greater Than Modern Era

With infamous science scandals
like Fakegate and Climategate making constant headlines, the credence of an
actual global warming scam is strengthened - and now, hysterical claims, such as
of the modern polar warming "death spiral," are being
exposed

(click image to enlarge - source)

Read here.
Hysterical polar warming claims by "experts" has been pretty extraordinary over
the last decade, including the idiotic sea ice "death spiral" prediction that is
now being carefully retracted.

Unfortunately, the global warming scam requires a
constant flow of hysterical claims, which more often than not, prove
to be wrong.

A recent study by Kobashi et al. completely
undermines the AGW claim that modern polar warming is unusual or
"unprecedented." A key finding of their study is following:

"And, even
more telling, prior to the last millennium they report "there were
72 decades warmer than the present one, in which mean
temperatures were 1.0 to 1.5°C warmer." In fact, they found that "during two
intervals (~1300 BP and ~3360 BP) centennial average temperatures were nearly
1.0°C warmer (-28.9°C) than the present decade."" [Takuro Kobashi, Kenji
Kawamura, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Jean-Marc Barnola, Toshiyuki Nakaegawa, Bo M.
Vinther, Sigfús J. Johnsen, Jason E. Box 2011: Geophysical Research Letters]

Conclusion: The hysterical
polar warming claims are part and parcel to the basic propaganda of the
catastrophic global warming scam. Although the globe has warmed over the last
150 years, the empirical science does not support the robust lying misinformation pushed by
warmists.

Previous peer-reviewed and sea-ice postings.

March 15, 2012 at 06:38
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New
Satellite Information Refutes Major IPCC Climate Prediction: AGW Scientists
& Mainstream Press 'Stunned'

The catastrophic prediction that
the world's major glaciers, including those of the Himalayas, were melting to
nothingness turns out to be spectacularly wrong - global warming scientists
& MSM press literally stunned by real world facts

Read
here and here. During a week where honest scientists and the gullible
mainstream press were again whacked in the head by the infamous 2x4 of global warming
alarmist corruption, new research based on empirical evidence continues to
reveal that the IPCC's alarmist predictions are bogus, if not terminally
corrupt.

New satellite evidence shows that the Himalayan glaciers have lost zero ice
for the last 10 years, which is the exact opposite of what the IPCC, Greenpeace,
the World Wildlife Federation and U.S. climate scientists have predicted, and
claimed to actually be happening.

As one of the world's major 'Big Green' propaganda alarmist tools, the UK's
Guardian had to be stunned itself to write this about the Himalayan glaciers and
the related 'stunned' climate scientists.

"The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10
years, study shows"..."The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a
chain from the Himalayas...have lost no ice over the last decade, new research
shows...The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn
tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new
snowfall."

As the sordid fakery and fabrications of a major global warming alarmist
scientist, Peter Gleick, continues to embarrassingly unravel, the mainstream press also has to cope
with real world climate facts - the world is not dangerously warming and causing all the exaggerated global
warming catastrophes they previously reported (predicted).

Previous posts about glacier-ice-sheet, failed-prediction and mainstream-media.

February 23, 2012 at 05:46
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Scientists
Determine Modern Greenland Glacier Retreat Not Unique, Part of Natural Melt
Cycle

Climate change alarmists said
melting of Greenland's glaciers was solely due to CO2-based global warming -
scientists now say that "consensus" is wrong

(click to enlarge image)

Read
here. It is a well established fact that tax-payer funded,
professional alarmists blame any known worldly change/condition on anthropogenic global
warming. This has certainly been true regarding the global retreat of glaciers
since the Little Ice Age end.

Based on the latest research though, scientists are now concluding that
natural oscillations and cycles play a much greater role in glacier retreat/melt
and advancement. In fact, new research has determined that Greenland's Helheim
Glacier had a similarly very high natural melt during the 1930's versus the more
recent melt that alarmists solely (wrongly) blame human CO2 emissions for.

"...the researchers [Andresen et al] were able to construct a
continuous history going back 120 years. By studying the debris and silt
deposited in the fjord, estimations can be made about the rate of iceberg
calving, and hence ice loss from the flowing ice of the glacier...the
researchers were able to create a history of ice loss for Helheim
[Glacier]...Two pronounced calving maxima are observed: one during the past 10
years, the other in the late 1930s/early 1940s. The long-term calving increase
is probably due to a shift from the Little Ice Age conditions, which were
characterized by low air temperatures and strong polar-water influence..."Our
analysis indicates that the recent increase in calving activity observed at
Helheim Glacier is not unique but that a similarly large event occurred in the
late 1930s/early 1940s. These two episodes occurred at times when the
temperature of the Atlantic-water source was high (positive/warm Atlantic
Multi-decadal Oscillation phase) and the polar-water export was at a record low
(even if fluctuating)."..."“Our study provides evidence that Helheim Glacier
responds to changes in [natural] atmosphere–ocean variability on timescales as
short as a few years.”" [Camilla S.
Andresen, Fiammetta Straneo, Mads Hvid Ribergaard, Anders A. Bjørk, Thorbjørn J.
Andersen, Antoon Kuijpers, Niels
Nørgaard-Pedersen, Kurt H. Kjær, Frands Schjøth, Kaarina Weckström, Andreas P.
Ahlstrøm 2012: Nature Geoscience]

Previous peer-reviewed and glacier/ice sheet postings. Above Mapquest and Google image
sources.

February 16, 2012 at 04:11
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New
Jet Propulsion Lab Analysis of Global Climate Model: Simulations of Arctic Ice
Are 'Rather Poor'

More evidence that computer climate
models are unable to produce accurate simulations of climate reality - the
models can't do the Arctic

Read
here. The Arctic polar region is dominated by ice and water.
One would expect any taxpayer funded computer model worth its salt would be able
to accurately predict the climate of this simple ice and water region,
no?

Well...as is the case with any computer climate model simulation, peer
reviewed research finds the global climate models are also worthless for
accurately predicting the Arctic climate, let alone the entire global
climate.

"Specifically, he writes that (1) "Zhang and Walsh (2006) noted
that even though the CMIP3 models capture the negative trend in sea ice area,
the inter-model scatter is large," that (2) "Stroeve et al. (2007) show that few
models exhibit negative trends that are comparable to observations," and that
(3) "Eisenman et al. (2007) conclude that the results of current CMIP3 models
cannot be relied upon for credible projections of sea ice behavior."...analysis
demonstrates that "the skill of the CMIP3 models (as a group) in simulation of
observed Arctic sea ice motion, Fram Strait export, extent, and thickness
between 1979 and 2008 seems rather poor."..."...and that "the spatial pattern of
Arctic sea ice thickness, a large-scale slowly varying climatic feature of the
ice cover, is not reproduced in a majority of the models." Consequently, he
writes that "the models will not get the main features of natural sea ice
variability that may be dominating recent sea ice extent declines..."
[R. Kwok 2011: Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans]

Additional polar-glacier-sea-ice, failed-prediction and peer-reveiwed postings.

January 17, 2012 at 11:17
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NASA's
Jet Propulsion Lab: Major Impact On Arctic Sea Ice Melt Is Nature's Own 'Arctic
Oscillation'

Scientists from Jet Propulsion Lab
and Univ. of Washington determine that fresh water from Russia's rivers and the
Arctic Oscillation are major factors for Arctic sea ice
melt

Read here. The 'Big Green' controlled IPCC and the typical Climategate scientist have publicly claimed that the recent
Arctic sea ice melt is entirely due to human CO2 emissions. The majority of
climate scientists don't agree with this IPCC stance, knowing full well that
other natural and human influences are at work in the Arctic.

New
research, by scientists from the University of Washington and NASA's Jet
propulsion Lab, have now discovered that freshwater from several large Russian
rivers is being relocated to certain regions in the Arctic that allows other
regions to be more vulnerable to increased sea ice melt. The force that is
redirecting freshwater is not human CO2 but instead nature's own Arctic
Oscillation.

This latest research confirms that any speculation of human CO2 emissions
being the major cause of sea ice melting is likely very wrong. (image source)

"A hemisphere-wide phenomenon – and not just regional forces –
has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic’s
Beaufort Sea"..."Frigid freshwater flowing into the Arctic Ocean from three of
Russia’s mighty rivers was diverted hundreds of miles to a completely different
part of the ocean in response to a decades-long shift in atmospheric pressure
associated with the phenomenon called the Arctic Oscillation"..."In the Eurasian
Basin, the change means less freshwater enters the layer known as the cold
halocline and could be contributing to declines in ice in that part of the
Arctic...The cold halocline normally sits like a barrier between ice and warm
water that comes into the Arctic from the Atlantic Ocean. Without salt the icy
cold freshwater is lighter, which is why it is able to float over the warm
water...In the Beaufort Sea, the water is the freshest it’s been in 50 years of
record keeping, he said. The new findings show that only a tiny fraction is from
melting ice and the vast majority is Eurasian river
water."

January 04, 2012 at 03:58
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New
Unequivocal Empirical Evidence: Antarctica's Past Climate Warmer Than Modern,
Over Last 450 Years

New Antarctica evidence
conclusively refutes IPCC global warming scientists' speculation that modern
temperatures are "unprecedented" and "accelerating"
higher

Read
here. The UN's IPCC attempted to convince the public and
policymakers that there was a scientific "consensus" that the last 150 years
have witnessed "accelerating" global warming that is "unprecedented."

Instead, the evidence now points to the IPCC and its Climategate scientists conspiring to mislead. Thankfully, the
vast majority of the world's scientists do not believe in the IPCC's climate
political-science proclamations and thus continue performing/producing empirical
research to determine the science truth.

The non-IPCC research team of Thamban et al is an example of this and the
adjacent chart (click to enlarge) is a
product of their research: Antarctica's modern temperatures are not unusual, nor
are they rapidly warming versus what has occurred naturally in the historical
past. As the evidence clearly shows, a natural warming has been taking place
over the last 400+ years.

"Working
with an ice core (IND-22/B4) that had been extracted during the austral
summer of 2003 from the coastal region of Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica...
-- the authors developed 470-year histories of δ18O and δD that "showed similar
down core fluctuations with [an] excellent positive relationship (R2 = 0.9; n =
216) between the two."..."the estimated surface air temperature at the core site
revealed a significant warming of 2.7°C with a warming of ~0.6°C per century for
the past 470 years."..."...Thamban et al.'s results clearly indicate that all
three of these climate-alarmist claims are false in regard to this portion of
the planet's southern polar region." [Meloth Thamban, C. M. Laluraj, Sushant S. Naik and Arun
Chaturvedi 2011: Journal of the Geological Society of India]

Previous climate-history and peer-reviewed postings. Historical and modern temperature charts.

January 04, 2012 at 05:29
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The
Embarrassing & Total Collapse of The IPCC's Antarctica Alarmist "Science"

All the facts, research and
evidence establish the true Antarctica reality - the IPCC's "global warming" is
not warming and melting the ice sheets

The
IPCC and its Climategate maladjusted scientists have long claimed that Antarctica was
dangerously warming and predicted its ice sheets were close to catastrophic
melting. The only problem with that characterization was its being totally
wrong, big-time.

In two previous postings, we discussed how both satellite and thermometer measurements document the extremely cold regions of
Antarctic that are covered by ice sheets, and the fact that for the lost 30
years those areas have experienced a slight cooling.

Read here. Adding to the known empirical evidence is the experiences
of one of the world's topmost polar scientists, Heinrich Miller. This man is not
a climate-model or computer-simulation jock; he is a field scientist who
conducts his research in the polar extremes. What does he say about
Antarctica?

"Here almost nothing has changed. At least not near the surface.
The average annual temperatures have remained the same. There are of course
large fluctuations from year to year. If anything over the last 30 years we have
a slight cooling trend. And this flies in the face of what is always immediately
claimed: ‘The climate is warming and the Antarctic is melting’.”

Read here. The alarmists at the IPCC and 'Big Green' like to point
to the gigantic icebergs produced by Antarctica as proof that global warming is
directly melting the polar continent with high temperatures. Unfortunately for
the alarmists though, research by polar experts have determined the iceberg
calving to be a normal condition, happening with regular frequency. Whether its
deep warm ocean currents melting floating ice shelfs or the remnants of a far
away tsunami, huge icebergs are a natural result.

"Despite what many alarmists will say, humans had nothing to do
with the PIG's latest iceberg extravaganza. The events about to unfold on the
bottom of the world are, in fact, all natural and have happened countless times
before. You see, NASA researchers say this latest iceberg is part of a natural
cycle seen every 10 years or so on this particular glacier..."ocean measurements
near Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier showed that the ice shelf buttressing the
glacier was melting rapidly. This melting was attributed to the presence of
relatively warm, deep water on the Amundsen Sea continental shelf."...Satellite
photos show huge icebergs were created when the remains of the Japanese tsunami
hit the Sulzberger Ice Shelf..."The impact of the tsunami and its train of
following dispersed waves... in combination with the ice-shelf and sea-ice
conditions provided the fracture mechanism needed to trigger the first calving
event from the ice shelf in 46 years,”"

Read here. Finally, climate scientist Eric Steig and his research
team have determined that the natural conditions and phases of tropical Pacific
waters are the real cause of Antarctica's coastal glaciers' melting.

"He [Steig] noted that sea-surface temperatures in the tropical
Pacific last showed significant warming in the 1940s, and the impact in the
Amundsen Sea area then was probably comparable to what has been observed
recently. That suggests that the 1940s tropical warming could have started the
changes in the Amundsen Sea ice shelves that are being observed now...He
emphasized that natural variations in tropical sea-surface temperatures
associated with the El Niño Southern Oscillation play a significant
role."

Despite all the research, the recognized experts and empirical evidence though, the IPCC and Climategate's Josefino
Comiso are already attempting to smother the facts and truth about
Antarctica in the next IPCC report, AR5. Will this level of UN sponsored climate
science misinformation eventually rise to the moniker of
PolarGate?

December 19, 2011 at 03:30
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IPCC's
Claim That Antarctica's Ice Sheets Are Melting Due To Global Warming Is Found To
Be Fraudulent

IPCC science on Antarctica can't
withstand scrutiny of experts and technology - Antarctica's polar ice caps are
not melting and can't

Recently,
we wrote of the bogus science by Josefino Comiso, an IPCC lead
author, that attempted to fabricate warming across the Antarctica continent.
Either due to extremely sloppy science, or massive stupidity or science
corruption, Comiso and his cohorts "found" Antarctica warming and that its polar
ice caps were at risk to melting.

Fortunately for the world, the study by the IPCC's Comiso was thoroughly
trashed by experts within the peer-reviewed community. That study has now joined
Al Gore's discredited climate science in the ash heap of history.

With that said, what is the actual temperature situation across the
Antarctica continent? Well, the above map provides some insight to actual
temperatures. (click on image to enlarge)

The Antarctica area between the two green circles represents the polar area
measured by the state-of-the-art NASA satellite. Since 1978, that entire area
has been slightly cooling, not warming, as shown in this previous chart. (The satellite is unable to
take measurements for the area within the inner green circle - the doughnut hole
area.)

There indeed has been some slight warming in the area of the Antarctica
Peninsula but the huge mass of ice sheets actually reside in East and West
Antarctica, which measurements show to be cooling.

As can be seen, the temperatures (listed by each red circle) during both the
warmest and coldest months (January and July) are well below freezing
temperatures. The major ice sheets exist in an interior environment where
melting can't occur presently; and, even a future warming of 10 degrees won't
cause any melting.

Simply stated, West and East Antarctica are just too freaking cold for any
melting to happen, with the exception of coastal areas that already are affected
by moderate maritime temperatures.

Despite this actual empirical evidence, the fraud-centric IPCC and its
associated scientists still make claims that Antarctica is warming and its
gigantic ice caps will soon melt, thus flooding the world. These are flat-out
false claims designed to only promote hysteria.

Note: The red circles on the map represent
either manned research stations or automatic weather stations. The three
temperatures listed for each circle include the average January, the average
July and the average annual temperature. For links to average temperature data
for each site, go to: Download
Antarctica Stations Temps

December 14, 2011 at 11:01
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IPCC
Scientist Responsible For Bogus Antarctica Warming Study Suppresses His Critics'
Research

IPCC 'lead author' Josefino Comiso
suppresses peer-reviewed research that completely discredited his previous
"Antarctica is warming" study

Read
here and here. The IPCC is continuing its tradition of fraudulent bogus climate science
for the 2013 climate report by utilizing Climategate-style scientists that excel
in global warming fabrication and suppressing research that challenges the
blatant fabrication.

As the recent Climategate2.0 emails reveal, research conspiracy, science
fraud bogosity and science
process malfeasance is alive and flourishing within the IPCC community.

How about this interesting example?

Josefino Comiso is a co-author of the infamous Steig et al. research that
attempted to take real warming in the Antarctica Peninsula area and then
magically spread it to the rest of Antarctica using rather bizarre techniques. A
team of statistical and mathematics experts closely analyzed Comiso's work and
found the expanded warming of Antarctica to be entirely bogus based solely on
the work's bad math and bad statistical methodology.

"Jeff Id has an excellent post on IPCC AR5 use of the highly
flawed Steig et al 2009. Despite Steig’s efforts to block the publication of
O’Donnell et al 2010, O2010 shows clearly that whatever is new in Steig et al
2009 is not only incorrect, but an artifact of flawed math and whatever is valid
was already known."

The team of math/stats experts, O'Donnell et al., published peer-research
that establishes, without any scientific doubt, that Steig et al. was literally
garbage science, and that warming for the majority of Antarctica was irrelevant
to nil.

"When S09 came out, the Authors tried to discuss the Western
continent warming only at Real Climate – the continental plot was entirely red
though.  Crack cocaine for advocates.  A huge media blitz ensued
proclaiming the warming of the entire continent.  Questions arose in the
Real Climate thread about the warming pole right away and were dismissed as not
important. Objective people knew the now blindingly obvious truth that the red
continent had to be an artifact of flawed math. No scientist can accept that
plot without question and our initial skepticism was proven out in a prominent
journal. True to climategate form, as the IPCC chapters continue to be leaked
out, we can see the widespread attempt to ignore O[Donnell et al.]10 and use the
incorrect warming caused by math errors of S09 to claim that the Antarctic is in
danger of melting – even though it is not."

In fact, the gold-standard and leading edge technology in temperature
measurement, satellites, has Antarctica very slightly cooling since 1978, as the
above chart depicts. (click on to enlarge)

Antarctica is not warming, nor is it melting. And note that atmospheric CO2
emissions (black dots in chart) have had absolutely no impact on the regional
temperatures of Antarctica.

Despite the overwhelming empirical evidence and the complete peer-reviewed
refutation of Comiso's Antarctica research, the IPCC chose to put him in charge
of the chapter dealing with the Antarctica analysis for the next IPCC report.
And the result?

Comiso appears to be suppressing the the peer-reviewed research that refutes his
god-awful science, the actual satellite empirical evidence, and ignoring 99.9%
of all scientists who know that CO2 is not causing warming/melting in
Antarctica.

99.9% ??? The vast majority of scientists look at the above chart and
instantly know that the Antarctica warming scare pushed by Comiso is a
fabrication - like much of the IPCC "science" the public and policymakers are
now identifying as a fabrication. Other than a handful of alarmist Climategate
related scientists, no reputable scientist rejects the real Antarctica empirical
evidence of 30+ years of slight cooling.

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Arctic
Sea Ice Model Affirms Current Sea Ice Extent Not Unusual - Means Ice Change Is
Natural

Read here. IPCC Climategate scientists and professional global
warming alarmists have long dedicated themselves to provoking hysteria in
politicians and the public. A favorite tactic has been their pushing the
propaganda that current Arctic temperatures and sea ice extent are
"unprecedented".

In contrast, the skeptics have believed that today's Arctic temperatures and
sea ice extent are not that unusual, and are likely not the result of humans.
Now comes a sea ice model that confirms the skeptics' hypothesis, while
devastating the alarmists' position.

This model's results comport with other Arctic empirical evidence from previous research.

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September 29, 2011 at 04:52
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New
Research: Satellite Measurements Confirm Global Warming Not The Cause of Modern
Greenland Ice Loss

Read here. The IPCC's climate models and its Climategate experts
have long predicted that Greenland would lose ice mass due to CO2-induced global
warming. Although satellites confirm that Greenland's glaciers in total have
dumped massive amounts of ice into surrounding seas during recent years, these
same satellites also confirm that generic global warming is probably not the
cause.

In actuality, if Greenland was a casualty of unprecedented global warming,
then its glaciers would be losing huge ice mass in unison, as predicted by the
IPCC. Instead, as the new Chen et al. study finds, there is huge variability of
ice loss among Greenland's glaciers, which can't be explained by AGW.

For example, using the advanced technology of the GRACE satellites,
scientists determined over the most recent years that:

Greenland's northwestern glaciers' ice loss increased by:
100Gt/yr

Greenland's southeastern glaciers' ice loss decreased by:
109Gt/yr

This study's scientists suggest that the gigantic variability (that wasn't
predicted) is likely to be a function of regional climate/weather conditions
resulting from normal interannual variability.

"A paper published...in the Journal of Geophysical Research
finds "the loss rate in southeast Greenland for the more recent period has
become almost negligible, down from 109 ± 28 Gt/yr of just a few years ago. The
rapid change in the nature of the regional ice mass in southeast and northwest
Greenland, in the course of only several years, further reinforces the idea that
the Greenland ice sheet mass balance is very vulnerable to regional climate
conditions."  Global warming allegedly due to greenhouse gases would not be
expected to cause such regional interannual variability in Greenland ice loss,
thus pointing to shifts in weather instead." [J. L. Chen, C. R. Wilson, B. D. Tapley 2011: Journal of Geophysical Research]

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New
Research Determines That "Expert Consensus" About The Warming of Bering Sea Was
Wrong

Read here. Map source here. The infamous "expert consensus" that has been proven
wrong on so many occasions has another climate prediction fail.

Climate scientists had claimed that sea ice coverage in the Bering Sea would
shrink due to global warming and that the warmer waters would be less productive
for marine life. Research by Brown et al. finds both predictions to be
wrong.

"Regarded as one of the world's most productive marine
environments, the Bering Sea is widely thought to be rapidly warming and losing
sea ice...Results show that, rather than declining, mean annual sea ice extent
in the Bering Sea has exhibited no significant change over the satellite sea ice
record (1979–2009). Furthermore, significant warming during the satellite sea
surface temperature record (1982–2009) is mainly limited to the summer
months...we speculate that Bering Sea primary productivity is likely to rise
under conditions of future warming and sea ice loss." [Zachary W. Brown, Gert L. van Dijken, Kevin R. Arrigo
2011: Journal of Geophysical Research]

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Experts
Now Say Unprecedented Arctic Sea Ice Loss Occurred In Past - 50% Less Ice Than
Summer 2011

Read here. Empirical-based scientists conducted real-world field
research and determined that summer Arctic ice has been less than 50% than that
during most modern summers. This clearly indicates that summers were definitely
warmer in the recent past, despite the low levels of CO2.

BTW, this means polar bears survived this extreme ice shrinkage in the past
and will do so again.

It also conclusively proves that the infamous disappearing sea ice "tipping
point" that IPCC climate alarmist scientists claim is lurking in the next heat
wave is likely non-existent - just like the scary boogieman living underneath
the bed of children.

From the peer-reviewed study by Funder et al.:

"For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in The
Arctic Ocean – probably less than half of current amounts. This is indicated by
new findings by the Danish National Research Foundation for Geogenetics at the
University of Copenhagen...when the temperatures were somewhat warmer than
today, there was significantly less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, probably less
than 50% of the summer 2007 coverage, which was absolutely lowest on
record...The good news is that even with a reduction to less than 50% of the
current amount of sea ice the ice will not reach a point of no return: a level
where the ice no longer can regenerate itself even if the climate was to return
to cooler temperatures. Finally, our studies show that the changes to a large
degree are caused by the effect that temperature has on the prevailing wind
systems. This has not been sufficiently taken into account when forecasting the
imminent disappearance of the ice, as often portrayed in the media,”"
[Svend Funder, Hugues Goosse, Hans Jepsen, Eigil Kaas, Kurt H. Kjær, Niels
J. Korsgaard, Nicolaj K. Larsen, Hans Linderson, Astrid Lyså, Per Möller, Jesper
Olsen, Eske Willerslev 201: Science]

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August 04, 2011 at 08:22
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UN's
IPCC Assessment On Glacier Movement Found To Be Robustly Incorrect - Climate
Models Are Wrong Too

Read here. The UN's IPCC is a political agency with the sole
objective of producing anti-CO2, pseudo-science reports regarding global warming
and  climate change. It achieves this not by conducting its own experiments
or research, but by collecting 3rd party alarmist research and advocacy papers from Climategate-type of
scientists and green activist groups that favor the anti-CO2 agenda report.

This approach to a political "science" report has often ended up producing
latrine-level science, such as the discredited 'hockey-stick' temperature chart and now infamous
Himalayagate affair.

The IPCC's reporting on glaciers, in general, has been robustly wrong and a
major factor has been an assessment based on a simple, yet spectacularly wrong,
glacier hypothesis. Simply stated, the IPCC assumed that warmer temperatures
would cause greater glacier ice melt, thus causing a positive self-lubrication
feedback that results in a consistent, accelerated glacier movement towards open
water. Sounds good except for the reality part - it doesn't work that way.

Previous glacier research had determined that Greenland's glacier flow
exhibited a long-term decrease over 17 years of warming and increased melting.
Sundal et al., using satellite technology, analyzed glacier movement to
determine why the IPCC glacier hypothesis did not agree with the obviously
contradictory empirical evidence.

"The six
scientists determined that "although peak rates of ice speed-up are positively
correlated with the degree of melting, mean summer flow rates are not, because
glacier slow-down occurs, on average, when a critical run-off threshold of about
1.4 centimeters a day is exceeded." Thus, and "in contrast to the first half of
summer, when flow is similar in all years," they found that "speed-up during the
latter half is 62% (± 16%) less in warmer years," so that "in warmer years, the
period of fast ice flow is three times shorter and, overall, summer ice flow is
slower...conclude that
"simulations of the Greenland ice-sheet flow under climate warming scenarios
should account for the dynamic evolution of subglacial drainage," because "a
simple model of basal lubrication alone misses key aspects of the ice sheet's
response to climate warming,""
[Aud Venke Sundal, Andrew Shepherd,
Peter Nienow, Edward Hanna, Steven Palmer, Philippe Huybrechts 2011:
Nature]

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July 27, 2011 at 11:01
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The
Radical Green Hysteria: Their Melting of Antarctica Lunacy Is Simliar To Losing
One Human Hair Every 30 Years

Read here. Radical green, left-wing organizations such as
Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental
Defense Fund and the National Resource Defense Council have consistently been
pushing the hysteria agenda of polar ice sheet melting and subsequent
catastrophic sea level rises. Unfortunately for these fringe outfits, peer
reviewed science and empirical evidence exposes the hysteria for what it is -
pure B.S. bogosity.

"The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice packs of
the Earth. It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest
single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km
and contains 30 million cubic km of ice.

Ok, so the
glaciers in question are allegedly melting at 10 cubic km per year, which is
1/3,000,000 of the Antarctic ice. That means it would take 30 years to melt
1/100,000 of the Antarctic ice, or 300 cubic km.  So the ice is melting at
a rate equivalent to a human losing 1 of his/her 100,000 hairs every 30
years.

Approximately
how many hairs are on a human head? Obviously, the number varies from person to
person, but in general the answer is that the human head has about 100,000
strands of hair."

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postings.

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NASA
Research Reveals Antarctica Ice Sheet Melt Just A Fraction of Climate Model
Predictions

Read here (h/t Steve Goddard). Gullible (and/or deceptive) reporters and
leftie/lib/progressive politicians have gleefully relied on the exaggerated
climate model predictions in attempt to lend credence to their claims of
accelerating sea level rises. The climate models projected that human CO2
increases would cause a definitive ice sheet melt, thus the seas had to rise
accordingly to new, scary heights. As usual, though, the climate models were
wrong.

As reported by the AAAS Science journal, two NASA researchers closely re-analyzed
the data from the East Antarctica ice sheet and found that previous ice sheet
loss estimates were significantly higher than reality. The actual science:

"A new reanalysis by two NASA scientists of the three standard
ice-monitoring techniques slashes the estimated loss from East Antarctica,
challenging the large, headline-grabbing losses reported lately for the
continent as a whole...Understanding the role of East Antarctica is one key to
figuring out what the ice sheets, and thus sea level, will be doing by century's
end."

Combine this
study's results with recent Greenland ice sheet research and it becomes very evident why
the empirical evidence (satellites and tide gauges) does not conform to the wild
predictions of climate models; nor does the real world science conform to
baseless, exaggerated "journalism" spoon-fed by the green climate
activists.

Sea
level increase through May 2011. (image source - click on to enlarge)

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and failed-prediction postings. Sea-level
charts.

July 26, 2011 at 05:10
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May,
1926: Explorers Find Open Water At North Pole --- July, 2011: North Pole Solid
Ice

Read here. Explorers floating over the North Pole during May 1926
"saw much open water at the North Pole" from the dirigible Norge.

In contrast, the July 6, 2011 view from a satellite that reveals no open water
at North Pole. Open water does exist close to the shorelines of land masses,
which is normal during summer months.

Image source here.

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July 07, 2011 at 04:11
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EU
Scientists: The Alps Big Glacier, Despite Modern "Unprecedented" Global Warming,
Was Smaller In The Past

Read here. The IPCC and climate alarmists have become well known for
their hysterical and failed glacier catastrophe prognostications. To
add to the IPCC's growing embarrassment, new research indicates that the Rhône Glacier
is currently larger than in previous times, which doesn't lend much credence to
their claims of the supposed "unprecedented" warming of the 20th/21st
centuries.

Interestingly, due to the glacier's melting, it has actually revealed how
warm it really was in the not too distant past - under the glacier were remains
of human settlements and forests that are now seeing the light of day, again.
Obviously, much to the chagrin of the IPCC's Climategate scientists, the human
past has experienced a much warmer climate.

Using novel techniques involving measurement of isotopes Carbon 14 and
Beryllium 10, Goehring et al. were able to analyze past glacier growth and
shrinkage over the past 11,500 years.

"Until now, scientists have had no accurate way of knowing the
long-term history of the glacier. Local records of the ice date back to 1602,
and it is clear that the Rhone, like other glaciers in the Alps, has retreated
dramatically in the past 150 years. This melting has exposed intriguing clues –
remnants of trees from once-forested land, and artifacts of human settlements
dating back thousands of years, to times when even more of the land was
uncovered and green...the researchers said that their more robust history of the
Holocene glacier fluctuations reflects how sensitive glaciers are to small
changes in climate...said he was surprised by the evidence of exposure revealed
by the isotopes. The amount of Beryllium 10 and Carbon 14 they found "told us
that not only were the surfaces exposed for significant periods of time, meaning
the Rhone Glacier was smaller than today..." [Brent M. Goehring, Joerg M. Schaefer, Christian
Schluechter, Nathaniel A. Lifton, Robert C. Finkel, A.J. Timothy Jull, Naki
Akçar, Richard B. Alley 2011: Geology]

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June 15, 2011 at 02:23
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Himalayan
Glaciers Stable Since 1992 Despite Large Human CO2 Emissions, Scientists
Determine

Read here. The IPCC "consensus" science and global warming alarmists
stated that Himalayan glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate and predicted
their demise from CO2-induced warming would be soon. A recent peer-reviewed
study finds that large glaciers in the northwest Himalayas are not experiencing
accelerated warming, thus they won't be disappearing as predicted.

"Working in
the Nanga Parbat region of northern Pakistan...used a
multi-temporal/multi-scale approach based on historical data, repeat photography
and satellite imagery to develop a 70-year history of the behavior of that
region's Raikot Glacier...two German scientists report that visual comparison of
repeat photography indicates "relatively small rates of recession and surface
changes over the last seven decades," and they say that "in the 1994 image, no
significant retreat of the glacier margin can be detected in comparison with
1985."...they report that "glacier fluctuations over the past 70 years are
characterized by retreat between the 1930s and 1950s, a marked advance between
the 1950s and 1980s, and a relatively stable situation after 1992," adding that
"a general trend of reduced glacier thickness does not appear significant over
the whole observation period."" [Susanne Schmidt, Marcus Nusser 2009: Journal of Glaciology]

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June 11, 2011 at 05:51
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Black
Carbon Soot From China & India Melting Himalayan Glaciers, Not CO2 Emissions
Say Scientists

Read here. Both China and India pump a lot of CO2 emissions into the
atmosphere but that's not the principal cause for the Himalaya glaciers/snow
melting. The real culprit is soot (black carbon), a huge and deadly air pollutant.

Instead of focusing on the atmospheric levels of the tiny, trace gas CO2, the
U.S. should be helping the Asian countries with technology and science to
conquer the soot menace.

"Kopacz et
al. used a global chemical transport model to identify the location from
which the BC arriving at a variety of locations in the Himalayas and the Tibetan
Plateau originates, after which they calculated its direct and snow-albedo
radiative forcings...they say that observations of black carbon (BC) content in
snow "show a rapidly increasing trend,"..."emissions from northern India and
central China contribute the majority of BC to the Himalayas," and that "the
Tibetan Plateau receives most BC from western and central China, as well as from
India, Nepal, the Middle East, Pakistan and other countries."" [Kopacz, M., Mauzerall, D.L., Wang, J., Leibensperger,
E.M., Henze, D.K. and Singh, K. 2011: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics]

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carbon-soot and peer-reviewed psotings.

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New
Research Out of Greenland Proves Stability of Ice Sheet Over The Last 2
Decades

Read here. The IPCC and its Climategate scientists have predicted
CO2-caused global warming for decades, which would cause the Greenland area to
warm, leading to a gigantic ice melt, thus flooding coastal regions around the
globe. Commonsense, anecdotal evidence, and tidal gauge and satellite data makes for convincing case that the IPCC and
fellow alarmists have hilariously exaggerated this predicted catastrophe. Now
comes further Greenland research that confirms the IPCC "science" failure.

Daniault et al. studied the East Greenland Current (EGC) for indications that
the "melting" ice cap was injecting huge amount of fresh water melt into the
current. They discovered that over the last two decades there is no increase in
the EGC trend, which essentially demolishes the exaggerated IPCC predicted
"tipping point" outcome.

The proverbial canary of Greenland fails to emit a peep: (click to enlarge,
image source)

"The East Greenland–Irminger Current (EGIC),
which flows southwestward along the eastern coast of Greenland, is important
because variability in the EGIC likely influences convection in the Labrador and
Irminger Seas, and could affect the global meridional overturning
circulation...They find that the EGIC transport was close to average from 1992
to 1996, decreased between 1997 and 2005, and has increased since 2006. Beyond
this decadal variability, the researchers find no significant trend in the
1992-2009 EGIC transport time series, confirming that EGIC transport variability
has not changed significantly over the past two decades." [N. Daniault, H.
Mercier, P. Lherminier 2011: Geophysical Research Letters]

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April 28, 2011 at 05:39
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New
Antarctica Research: The IPCC "Consensus" Science Is Turned Topsy-Turvy

Read here (h/t: The Hockey Schtick ). The latest research coming out of
Antarctica reveals that scientists have been caught completely unaware of the
substantial ice growth occurring below Antarctica, in addition to the obvious
massive cumulative ice growth on the surface.

This new evidence casts severe doubt on the "consensus" Antarctica climate
science pushed by the IPCC that the southern polar ice sheet is at risk. Couple
this with the new revelation that an ozone hole is now forming over the Arctic, much to the chagrin of IPCC polar
experts, it is safe to conclude that nature is in definite control, not the UN's
IPCC Climategate CO2-based science.

Per the new Antarctica research:

""There was water moving around underneath the ice sheet and it
had frozen back onto the bottom of the ice sheet." Ice in Antarctica isn't
supposed to form that way — it's supposed to fall from the sky as snow, and form
from the top down.....Bell says scientists have known for over a decade that
liquid water forms under Antarctica, and that it flows from one place to
another, "but now this is showing that the water can actually change the
overlying ice sheet.".....That discovery changes the way scientists think about
the processes that shape Antarctica. It could also complicate plans to study the
Earth's past climate. Scientists drill down through the layers of ice to study
the air bubbles, from ancient air, that's trapped inside the ice....."You think
of each layer in the ice sheet being a history book and telling us what was
going on on the planet at that time," Bell says. But that record is destroyed
when the ice melts and refreezes, so "unfortunately, these books have been
erased.""

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April 08, 2011 at 01:01
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Latest
Arctic Analysis: Temperatures Actually Peaked In 1950's, Which Rivaled Medieval
Warming

Read here. A new analysis of Greenland ice cores conclusively
identifies the extremes of both the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age,
represented by a 50-year average temperature measurement. This same measurement
identifies the 1950's as a modern peak for the 50-year average, with a
subsequent cooling through the mid-1990's.

This peer-reviewed analysis, by Kobashi et al., clearly shows that
temperatures and climate exhibit a wide variation, regardless of atmospheric CO2
levels. In fact, these scientists state categorically that there are natural,
decadal and century-long oscillations that are driving Arctic regional
temperature changes over the past, the present and foreseeable future. These
decadal/century periodicity events significantly pre-date human CO2 emission
influence. (click on image to enlarge)

"Here, we reconstruct the last 1,000 years of
central Greenland surface temperature from isotopes of N2 and Ar in air bubbles
in an ice core. This technique provides constraints on decadal to centennial
temperature fluctuations. We found that northern hemisphere temperature and
Greenland temperature changed synchronously at periods of ∼20 years and 40–100
years. This quasi-periodic multi-decadal temperature fluctuation persisted
throughout the last millennium, and is likely to continue into the
future.....The data show clear evidence of the Medieval Warm Period and Little
Ice Age in agreement with documentary evidence." [Takuro Kobashi · Jeffrey P. Severinghaus · Jean-Marc
Barnola · Kenji Kawamura · Tara Carter · Tosiyuki Nakaegawa 2010: Climatic Change]

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Major
EU Study Determines Greenland Ice Sheet Much More Stable Than Previously
Thought, Current Models Wrong

Read here and here. A team of 22 scientists, Willerslev et al., analyzed ice
cores from southern Greenland and found that the southern Greenland ice sheet
survived temperatures that were 9°F warmer than current temps. Even in this much
warmer climate, the ice sheet remained at least 1,000 meters thick, which
debunks the alarmist's claims of future ice sheet "tipping points."

Based on this analysis, the scientists concluded that the ice sheet's
long-term stability is contrary to previous estimates of ice melt rapidity, such
as those utilized by the IPCC climate models. The analysis also discovered that
prior to ice sheet coverage, southern Greenland was a lush forest some 450,000
years ago, which is a 2 million year difference from previous expert
estimates.

""What we've
learned is that this part of the world was significantly warmer than most people
thought,"....."If our data is correct, then this means that the southern
Greenland ice cap is more stable than previously thought,"..."This may have
implications for how the ice sheets respond to global warming." DNA extracted
from ice cores shows that moths and butterflies were living in forests of spruce
and pine in the area between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago.....The discovery
pushes forward the date when the last forests were known to exist in Greenland
by nearly two million years." [Eske
Willerslev, Enrico Cappellini, Wouter Boomsma, Rasmus Nielsen, Martin B.
Hebsgaard, Tina B. Brand, Michael Hofreiter, Michael Bunce, Hendrik N. Poinar,
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Sigfus Johnsen, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Ole Bennike,
Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Roger Nathan, Simon Armitage, Cees-Jan de Hoog, Vasily
Alfimov, Marcus Christl, Juerg Beer, Raimund Muscheler, Joel Barker 2007:
Science]

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March 09, 2011 at 05:35
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"Consensus
Science" Estimate of Glacier Loss Too High By 33% - Latest Study Confirms Fears
of Shoddy IPCC Science

Read here. Month after month we see new revelations that the
Climategate-style of science promoted by the alarmist IPCC is one of shoddiness
and extremes. As with the incredible errors discovered during the infamous Glaciergate fiasco, now a new peer-reviewed study finds that
Alaska's glacier loss has been (surprise!) "overestimated" by some 33%+.

The new Berthier et al. research highlighted the massive uncertainties
associated with climate science, and that previous IPCC proclamations about the
Earth's climate conditions continue to be exposed as serial exaggerations,
designed to frighten policymakers.

"...a team of five scientists from France, Arizona, and British
Columbia focused their attention on what has happened to glaciers in Alaska over
the past 50 years.....“However, these estimates of ice loss in Alaska are based
on measurements of a limited number of glaciers that are extrapolated to
constrain ice wastage in the many thousands of others. Uncertainties in these
estimates arise, for example, from the complex pattern of decadal elevation
changes at the scale of individual glaciers and mountain ranges.” .....the
massive Columbian glacier (in the center) has experienced significant ice mass
loss over the past five decades. However, the smaller Harvard glacier to the
west has “thickened and advanced” according to the authors.....“We find that
between 1962 and 2006, Alaskan glaciers lost 41.9 ± 8.6 km3 yr-1 of water 34%
less than estimated earlier. Reasons for our lower values include the higher
spatial resolution of our glacier inventory as well as the reduction of ice
thinning underneath debris and at the glacier margins, which were not resolved
in earlier work. We suggest that estimates of mass loss from glaciers and ice
caps in other mountain regions could be subject to similar revisions.”"
[E. Berthier, E. Schiefer, G.K.C.
Clarke, B. Menounos, and F. Rémy2010: Nature GeoScience]

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Latest
Research From EU Finds IPCC Predictions of 'Ice-Free' Arctic To Be Bogus
Alarmism

Read here. IPCC Climategate scientists and AGW alarmists have long
predicted that human CO2-emissions will cause the Arctic to become "ice-free" -
a "tipping point" to runaway warming. As with almost all AGW alarmists'
predictions, new EU climate research by Tietsche et al. shows the ice-free
Arctic tipping point prediction to also be bogus.

"First off, a
flood of new research has hit the library shelves concerning the rates of ice
flow of Greenland’s glaciers indicating that many of the proposed mechanisms for
large and rapid ice loss there do not work the way they have been postulated to.
And, new findings into how they do work indicate a much less drastic response to
a warming climate.....Now, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute
for Meteorology, in Hamburg, Germany, led by Steffen Tietsche, examine whether
or not there is indeed a “tipping point” when it comes to Arctic sea ice
coverage....."[W]e [ find that even dramatic perturbations of summer sea-ice
cover in the Arctic are reversible on very short time scales of typically two
years. This suggests that a so-called tipping point, which would describe the
sudden irreversible loss of Arctic summer sea ice during warming conditions, is
unlikely to exist."" [S.
Tietsche, D. Notz, J. H. Jungclaus, J. Marotzke 2011: Geophysical Research Letters]

Additional peer-reviewed and failed-prediction postings. Other polar-glacier-ice postings.

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Peer-Study
Concludes That A Natural Negative Feedback Stopped Melting of Greenland's
Glaciers

Read here. There was a period during early 21st century when
Greenland's ice mass reduction was happening due to its southeastern outlet
glaciers melting and retreating. Most IPCC related alarmists claimed this was
evidence of the infamous climate "tipping point" and predicted imminent
catastrophic sea level rises would result.

Around 2006 the glacier retreats came to a screeching halt, thus stabilizing
the ice sheet mass wastage and putting a lid on the typical alarmist's refrain
that the Greenland ice sheet was disappearing. What stopped the glaciers
melting? It was a natural, climatic negative feedback that took place (not the
alarmist predicted, positive feedback induced tipping point).

A 2010 peer-reviewed study [Murray, T. et al. 2010]
found that warm waters from the Atlantic were causing the melting of the
glaciers; the melt waters from the glaciers decreased the temperatures of the
surrounding waters thus the glaciers were no longer in contact with warm waters
and the melting stopped.

"Murray et al.
(eleven researchers) present evidence that suggests that the original ice
wastage speedup "was the result of warm ocean waters coming into contact with
the glaciers," and that this speedup "was probably terminated in part by
increased discharge from the glaciers themselves, which increased ice sheet
runoff and iceberg calving" that in turn "introduced additional cold water
strengthening the East Greenland Coastal Current," which slowed glacier melting
until warmer water again began to dominate the Current's waters.....write that
their findings are suggestive of "a negative feedback that currently mitigates
against continued very fast loss of ice from the ice sheet in a warming
climate," and they thus conclude that "we should expect similar speedup and
slowdown events of these glaciers in the future, which will make it difficult to
elucidate any underlying trend in mass loss resulting from changes in this
sector of the ice sheet." [Murray, T.,
Scharrer, K., James, T.D., Dye, S.R., Hanna, E., Booth, A.D., Selmes, N.,
Luckman, A., Hughes, A.L.C., Cook, S. and Huybrechts, P. 2010]

Additional ice sheet postings. Negative/positive feedback postings. Other peer-reviewed postings.

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EU
Soot Emissions Found To Be Melting Himalayan Glaciers & Warming Regional
Climates

Read here. As European greens and government policymakers are
frolicking and polluting at Cancun's paradise resorts for two weeks, their
countries' soot emissions are destroying the Himalayan glaciers and drinking
water of billions of people. Instead of fixing the black carbon (soot) pollution
they are responsible for, the EU activists continue to rail about the
atmospheric trace gas CO2, which, by the way, doesn't melt glaciers, sea ice or
polar ice sheet caps.

There are
multiple studies, including this latest article, that point to soot as a
prime culprit in climate warming and ice melting.

"“….Angela
Marinoni of the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate in Bologna
explained to an audience at the 2nd Third Pole Environment Workshop in Kathmandu
on October 27th, the high Himalayas are also under an onslaught from this sort
of pollution. Even at altitudes above 5,000 metres (16,400 feet), soot is
widespread. And when it lands on glaciers it accelerates their melting.....By
analysing atmospheric circulation patterns, Dr Marinoni and her colleagues found
that winds could bring soot and dust from as far away as Europe, the Middle East
and North Africa. And if that were not bad enough, the Himalayan valleys act as
chimneys, pumping pollutants from the Indian plains to the mountain peaks. Dr
Marinoni estimates that the combined effect of this crud could reduce the
glaciers’ ability to reflect light by 2-5% and increase the amount of melting by
12-34%."

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2010
Study By Arctic Experts Refutes AGW Hypothesis of Polar Warming Amplification
From CO2

Read here. James Hansen, Al Gore and other global warming alarmists
base frightening climate calamities (20 to 80-foot sea level increases) on the hypothesis that human
CO2 emissions will cause an "amplified" increase in polar temperatures. Actual
scientific researchers decided to investigate the validity of the
polar-amplification hypothesis.

The nine researchers [White et al. 2010] examined all the evidence and
research related to Arctic temperatures and determined that current Arctic
temperatures are well within natural variability and no CO2-induced
"polar-amplification" is to be found.

"In comparing
the vast array of past climate changes in the Arctic with what climate alarmists
claim to be the "unprecedented" anthropogenic-induced warming of the past
several decades, White et al. conclude that "thus far, human influence does not
stand out relative to other, natural causes of climate change." In fact, they
state that the data "clearly show" that "strong natural variability has been
characteristic of the Arctic at all time scales considered," and they reiterate
that the data suggest "that the human influence on rate and size of climate
change thus far does not stand out strongly from other causes of climate
change."" [White, J.W.C., Alley,R.B.,
Brigham-Grette, J., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Jennings, A.E., Johnsen, S.J., Miller,
G.H., Nerem, R.S. and Polyak, L. 2010.]

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Canada's
Hudson Bay: Is Earlier Sea-Ice Breakup In Bay An Indication of AGW? Scientists
Say No

Read here. Over recent decades, it has been noted that Hudson Bay
sea ice has been breaking up earlier in the summer season. These are anecdotal
recollections/observations that scientists decided to investigate, using an
array of advanced technology.

This new peer-reviewed research regarding the Hudson Bay sea ice issue
indicates there is actually no trend of earlier sea ice breakup in the area. The
data analysis does show, though, a one-time shift to an earlier breakup date
during late 1980's, but no trend prior or post to that event that can be
attributed to AGW causes.

"Working with
passive microwave data obtained from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave
Radiometer onboard the Nimbus 7 satellite, plus three Special Sensor
Microwave/Imager instruments onboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
satellites -- as well as Canadian Ice Service sea-ice charts that are considered
to be "more accurate than passive microwave data for estimates of ice
concentration, particularly in the presence of surface melt,".....the two
researchers from the British Antarctic Survey found that "there has clearly not
been a continuous trend in the [time of sea-ice breakup] data, and the change is
best described by a step to 12 days earlier breakup occurring between 1988 and
1989, with no significant trend before or after this date." ....."Clearly, the
science pertaining to this matter is still not wholly settled; and, therefore,
humanity cannot yet be blamed for what the world's climate alarmists consider to
be the "bad behavior" of western Hudson Bay in regard to the temporal
advancement of the yearly date of sea-ice breakup caused by the one-time
adjustment in this parameter that occurred in the late 1980s." [Scott, J.B.T. and Marshall, G.J. 2010.]

Other peer-reviewed postings.

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New
Peer-Reviewed Research Finds That Modern Greenland Ice Sheet Change Is
Unexceptional Versus Last 140 Years

Read here. The IPCC's Climategate scientists and Goreian alarmists
have claimed that Greenland is in process of substantial and irreversible change
due to the global warming over the past few decades. Putting aside the
hysterical hyperbole, what is the current condition of the Greenland ice sheet?
Is it experiencing unprecedented change?

Recent peer-reviewed research examined the the status of the ice sheet and
found that any recent change was not exceptional in the context of the past 140
years.

"In an effort to
answer this important question, Wake et al., as they describe it, reconstructed
the 1866-2005 surface mass-balance (SMB) history of the Greenland ice sheet on a
5 x 5 km grid "using a runoff-retention model based on the positive degree-day
method,.....This they did, in their words, in order to compare "the response of
the ice sheet to a recent period of warming and a similar warm period during the
1920s to examine how exceptional the recent changes are within a longer time
context.".....The six scientists determined, in their words, that present-day
SMB changes "are not exceptional within the last 140 years." In fact, they found
that the SMB decline over the decade 1995-2005 was no different from that of the
decade 1923-1933.....recent changes that have been monitored extensively
(Krabill et al., 2004; Luthcke et al., 2006; Thomas et al., 2006) are
representative of natural sub-decadal fluctuations in the mass balance of the
ice sheet and are not necessarily the result of anthropogenic-related warming."
[Wake, L.M., Huybrechts, P., Box,
J.E., Hanna, E., Janssens, I. and Milne, G.A. 2009]

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Russian
Arctic Experts: The Arctic Has Entered Cooling Cycle & Climate Models Are
Worthless

Read here. Utilizing 85 years of actual scientific data and
analysis, scientists from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research
Institute (AARI) published a book, Climate Change in Eurasian Arctic Shelf Seas, that explains how
the Arctic temperature and sea ice conditions are driven by natural forces, not
human CO2 emissions. The authors also mock the CO2-based climate models that the
IPCC Climategate scientists solely rely on:

"They state “where data do exist, we
should prefer data to computer models”; they believe model projections of
future ice area fluctuations are unreliable. Actually, they have some
deliciously scathing remarks about climate models.

“The models neglect natural
fluctuations because they have no means of incorporating them, and put the
entire blame for climate changes since the 19th century on human
activity.”"

Additional climate model
articles

October 16, 2010 at 05:21
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Polar
Ice Melt: Over 90% of Melt Due To Soot, Not CO2, According To Peer-Reviewed
Study

Read here. Hysterical global warming alarmists keep claiming that
polar sea ice melt is due to increasing human CO2 emissions. This is extreme
wishful thinking on their part since recent research finds black soot as being
the major factor for polar sea ice loss. h/t: Steve Goddard

"Belching from
smokestacks, tailpipes and even forest fires, soot—or black carbon—can quickly
sully any snow on which it happens to land.....But on snow—even at
concentrations below five parts per billion—such dark carbon triggers melting,
and may be responsible for as much as 94 percent of Arctic warming....."A
surprisingly large temperature response is caused by a surprisingly small amount
of impurities in snow in polar regions."....."When soot is there it heats the
snow. It acts like a little toaster oven."....."Black carbon in snow causes
about three times the temperature change as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,"
Zender says. "The climate is more responsive to this than [to] anything else we
know.""

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What
The Real Data Indicates: Length of Arctic Melt Season Shows No Global Warming
Trend

Read here.
As AGW alarmist after AGW alarmist predicted, and as gullible reporter after
gullible reporter dutifully reported, the Arctic is warming and will soon be
nothing but a pond of tepid water. Of course if these predictions were true,
this would mean the Arctic melt season would have lengthened - every year the
melt season would be longer. Or stated another way, every year the Arctic melt
season would start earlier and end later.

Guess what? The Arctic melt season has not experienced the predicted
expansion trend over the last 3 decades. Instead it shows considerable variation
due to natural weather/climate oscillation patterns. And based on the most
current data, the 2010 melt season was the shortest
in recent memory. (click on image to enlarge)

Additional current temp
charts here. Historical temp charts here.

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Melting
Predictions For Greenland & Antarctica Found To Be All Wet: Only Half What
Climate Scientists Predicted

Read here.
Well....it's another week and another new peer-reviewed study finds that ice
sheet melting at Greenland and Antarctica is significantly below what the IPCC's
Climategate scientists have claimed. Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Lab and
Delft University reviewed the data and determined ice melt is half the previous
speculative estimates, which means sea level rises are, in essence, about half
of previous predicted levels.

"Researchers from the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena (US), TU Delft and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space
Research have now succeeded in carrying out that correction far more
accurately. They did so using combined data from the GRACE mission, GPS
measurements on land and sea floor pressure measurements. These reveal that
the sea floor under Greenland is falling more rapidly than was first thought.
One of the researchers, Dr Bert Vermeersen of TU Delft, explains: 'The
corrections for deformations of the Earth’s crust have a considerable effect
on the amount of ice that is estimated to be melting each year. We have
concluded that the Greenland and West Antarctica ice caps are melting at
approximately half the speed originally predicted.' The average rise in sea
levels as a result of the melting ice caps is also
lower."

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Greenland
Spawns 10,000 to 40,000 Icebergs Per Year; Some Are Small & Some Are Size of
Manhattan

Read here.
Recently, a large tongue of glacier ice that was floating on the sea broke off.
This 9-mile wide river of ice had gradually pushed itself some 40 miles into the
waters over recent years. As every individual with an interest in science would
have predicted, the weight of this ice beast would eventually cause a break-off
somewhere along its 40-mile length. And on August 3, 2010, it did just that as
captured
by satellite.

Of course, it didn't take long for the moronic left to claim that a huge
river of ice that's been growing since 2002 to be a victim of global warming.
The fact that the glacier tongue break was not due to warming but instead to its
growing too much is irrelevant science to the liberal/left/progressive AGW
fanatics. To get a sense of how moronic the U.S. Democrats sound to the world
about science issues, just read this EU
scientist's take on our version of "liberal" politicians. The constant
science stupidity that Democrats reveal is mind-numbing and
dangerous.

August 08, 2010 at 06:43
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Researchers
Discover Irrefutable Proof That Arctic Sea Ice Had Disappeared In The
mid-1800's

Read here.
The British ship, HMS Investigator, sailed the Arctic area in the
1850's. The ship was abandoned and then sunk. After 150+ years the sea ice
finally retreated enough to allow researchers to find the HMS
Investigator, on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.

Sooooo.....during the 1850's, well before the huge spike in human CO2
emissions, the area north of the Arctic Circle was so free of ice that a wooden
ship with sails could easily traverse the area. Simply put, this is irrefutable
historical evidence about large scale sea ice melt, which proves that the Arctic
has 'been there, done that.'

"Interesting that the ship was lost in
1853, right at the end of the Little Ice Age, and coincidentally just 3 years
after the start of the HADCRU global temperature record, from which we are led
to believe the earth has warmed about 0.7C. If we are seeing "unprecedented"
global temperatures and changes in Arctic sea ice, how did the HMS
Investigator get this far north at the end of the Little Ice
Age?"

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High
Arctic Region Reveals Zero Climate Change Since 1930's, New Peer-Reviewed Study
Finds

Read here.
Map source here.
The past decade has been filled with climate warming alarmist predictions that
CO2-induced warming is running amok, globally causing significant climate
change. The most significant change that global warming was predicted to cause
would have happened in the polar regions. As is often the case, the alarmist
polar predictions are frequently incorrect.

Recently, scientists conducted research on the same plot of Arctic land where
research was done back in the 1930's. What did they find? Climate change from
"global warming" was non-existent.

"Parmesan (2006) wrote that "nearly every
Arctic ecosystem shows marked shifts due to climate change," and as a result,
the authors decided to see if such was the case at a study site in the High
Arctic located at 78°38'N, 16°45'E, near Brucebyen at the Adolfbukta Bay in
central Spitsbergen (Svalbard), where the vegetation had been carefully
surveyed, identified and mapped in the 1930s and the results published by
Acock (1940).....In the summer of 2008, Prach et al. repeated the vegetation
mapping and identification of species "on the same strip of land 2,042 x 521
meters in size, as surveyed by Acock in 1936-1937 and using the same
methods.".....The four researchers, all from the Czech Republic, report that
their work "did not reveal any changes in vegetation, since a previous study
in 1936-1937, that could be attributed to climate change.".....maybe it just
hasn't warmed as much in this High Arctic land as the world's climate
alarmists would have us believe, which is also suggested by Prach et
al."

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CO2-AGW
Alarmist Science Hits Iceberg: Study Reveals Human CO2 Has Zero Impact On
Antarctica Melting/Warming

Read here.
Researchers from Cryospheric Processes Laboratory and the U.S. National Center
for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) monitor various attributes of the S.
Hemisphere/Antarctica and have documented that recently the snow melt index for
the southern continent has reached its lowest point ever. Their research
indicates the snow melt index is likely driven by the major ocean and atmosphere
oscillations for that area of the world - in other words, Antarctica
melting/warming has nothing to do with human CO2 emissions over the last 30
years.

We've superimposed the linear-like growth of CO2 levels for the past 30 years
on the chart below. Clearly, the Antarctica climate is not warming due to the
rapid growth of human CO2 emissions. Nor does it even appear to be influenced by
CO2 levels. The alarmist AGW prediction that Antarctica was going to melt due to
CO2 was (and is) absolute rubbish. (click on image to enlarge)

"Tedesco and Monaghan begin by noting
“Melting over Antarctica has been monitored since 1979 using spaceborne passive
microwave observations. The sign of the melting trends over Antarctica is
variable at regional scales, depending on the period analyzed and on the indices
used, with the continent-averaged trend being negligible.”.....observed that
snowmelt was at a record low for the 30-year period between 1979 and 2009.
Specifically, the Antarctic snowmelt index (the number of days on which melt
occurs multiplied by the area subject to melting) in 2008–2009 set a new
historical minimum.” They explain further “Negative melting anomalies indicate
that melting occurred fewer days than the average over the past 30
years.”.....with only one small exception, the entire coastline of Antarctica
experienced a low amount of melting – this was widespread and not regionally
confined. Claims that Antarctica is melting are simply not consistent with the
facts!"

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2010
Peer-Reviewed Study: GRACE Satellite Measurements of Sea Level Rise & Ice
Sheet Mass Loss Are Worthless

Read here.  The new
technology that GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite
measurements represent appears to have major biases and is error-prone.
Unfortunately, climate scientists who advocate climate alarmism misuse the GRACE
findings to support their views without stating the critical GRACE
short-comings. (Update: new
GRACE article from WUWT.)

"In an effort designed to provide some of
that "detailed understanding" of GRACE's "errors and biases," Quinn and Ponte
conducted what they describe as "a detailed analysis of processing and
post-processing factors affecting GRACE estimates of ocean mass trends," by
"comparing results from different data centers...".....The two researchers
report that the mean ocean mass trends they calculated "vary quite
dramatically depending on which GRACE product is used, which adjustments are
applied, and how the data are processed.".....In light of the fact that Quinn
and Ponte indicate that "over the last century, the rate of sea level rise has
been only 1.7 ± 0.5 mm/year, based on tide gauge reconstructions (Church and
White, 2006)," it seems a bit strange that one would ever question that result
on the basis of a GRACE-derived assessment, with its many and potentially very
large "errors and biases.".....Clearly, the GRACE approach to evaluating ocean
mass and sea level trends still has a long way to go -- and must develop a
long history of data acquisition -- before it can ever be considered a
reliable means of providing assessments of ocean mass and sea level
change"

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Global
Cooling Is Here, Pt. II: Arctic Summer Temps Well Below Normal

Read here.
As we mentioned
before (Part 1) about the Arctic has been acting cold this summer - turns
out it has been.

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Another
Global Cooling Indicator: Arctic Ice Melt Slowest/Smallest Ever
Recorded!

Read here.
Well...er,..okay...the smallest melt rate for the first 15 days of July
then!  (Hot update on sea ice melt from Watts Up With That: Sea Ice News
#14 – an
inconvenient July.)

In spite of the constant, ludicrous,
short-term, navel-gazing pronouncements of U.S. climate scientists and their
useful idiots, the mainstream press, the world is not burning up, nor melting.
If climate scientists feel so strongly that the focus should be on the
short-term, then the above indicator of Arctic ice melt is surely important and
indicative also. It does seem to confirm what
is happening over the medium-term, globally:

July 18, 2010 at 11:01
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The
Al Gore Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse & Global Drowning: When? -- Latest
Peer-Research Indicates It's Not Very Likely, Ever

Read here.
Global warming scare myths have been very effective tools employed by the the
likes of Al Gore and James Hansen to frighten the undereducated and science
illiterates, such as Hollywood celebrities and MSM journalists/pundits. One of
the most effective scare myths has been the imminent West Antarctic ice sheet
(WAIS) collapse, due to human CO2-induced global warming, which will raise sea
levels to extraordinary heights. Luckily for humanity, the actual ice sheet
science reveals the Gore/Hansen scare myth to be without merit - in other words,
fraudulent speculation.

What's important to know is that the peer-reviewed science has determined
that a WAIS collapse has not even happened when temperatures were significantly
warmer in the ancient past. And, if it were to happen in the future, it would
take thousands of years of ludicrously high, and sustained, southern ocean
temperatures (not air). In summary, not bloody likely, mate.

"And once started, he says that the
transition time for a total collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet would
range from "one thousand to several thousand years," which time period, in his
words, "is nowhere near the century timescales for West Antarctic ice-sheet
decay based on simple marine ice-sheet models," such as have been employed in
the past.....the specter of 21st-century sea level rise being measured in
meters -- as hyped by Al Gore and James Hansen -- can be seen to be receding
ever further into the distance of unreality. What is more, and in spite of the
current interglacial's current relative coolness, the Vostok ice core data
indicate that the current interglacial has been by far the longest stable warm
period of the entire 420,000-year record, which suggests we are probably long
overdue for the next ice age to begin, and that we may not have the "5 to 50
centuries" that O'Neill and Oppenheimer suggest could be needed to bring about
the WAIS disintegration subsequent to the attainment of whatever temperature
in excess of 4 or 5°C above the current global mean would be needed to
initiate the process...In conclusion, therefore, it would appear that the
climate-alarmist vision of impending WAIS collapse and disintegration is
nothing more than an ill-founded
hallucination."

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Antarctic
Glacier Melt: Newest Research Points To Non-CO2 Melting Causes

Read
here.
As the temperature chart on the left reveals (click on image to enlarge), sea
surface temperatures have generally been declining around the Pine Island
Glacier over the last 30 years. This evidence is in contrast to global warming
alarmista claims that Antarctic glaciers have been shrinking due to CO2-induced
warming. Now, real-working scientists have discovered a different cause of the
shrinking glacier that has nothing to do with human CO2 emissions.

“The discovery of the ridge has raised
new questions about whether the current loss of ice from Pine Island Glacier
is caused by recent climate change or is a continuation of a longer-term
process that began when the glacier disconnected from the ridge.....“We do not
know what kick-started the initial retreat from the ridge, but we do know that
it started some time prior to 1970. Since detailed observations of Pine Island
Glacier only began in the 1990s, we now need to use other techniques such as
ice core analysis and computer modelling to look much further into the
glacier’s history in order to understand if what we see now is part of a long
term trend of ice sheet contraction."

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Another
IPCC "Consensus" AGW Science Issue Found To Be Wrong: New Glacier Melt Study
Refutes IPCC

Read here. New
peer-reviewed research finds that at least 50% of the Swiss Alp glacier retreat
and melt is due to natural variability, not the 100% man-made cause assigned by
the IPCC. The study also suggests that the natural glacier variability is
probably true for all glaciers, worldwide.

"In the relatively well-monitored Swiss
Alps, however, Huss and his team managed to gather some 10,000 in situ
observations that had been made over the past 100 years, and constructed
three-dimensional computer models of 30 glaciers. By comparing a time series
of daily melt, snow accumulation and ice and snow volume readings of the
glaciers with a widely used index of the AMO [Atlantic Multidecadal
Oscillation], they teased out the impact of natural climate variability.
Although the mass balance of individual glaciers varied, the long-term overall
trend followed the pulse of the AMO.....Natural climate variability is likely
to have driven twentieth-century glacier shrinkage and thinning in other parts
of the world, says Kaser. For example, his own research on the glaciers of
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania suggests that their dramatic recession is mainly
due to multidecadal fluctuations in air moisture"

h/t: Tom
Nelson

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Gases: CO2/Methane/Water Vapor

Green
Groups/Bureaucrats/Enviro-Nazis/Thugs

Harm
To Science Credibility/Reputation

Hockey-Stick
Science, Cherry Picking

Hysteria:
Climate Tipping Points, Alarmist Predictions

Hysteria:
Diseases/Starvation/Death/Health Impact

Hysteria:
Drought/Flood/Crop Failures/Forest Fires

Hysteria:
Earthquakes/Tsunamis/Volcanoes

Hysteria:
Greenland/Polar/Glaciers/Sea Ice

Hysteria: Heat
Wave/Cold Wave

Hysteria:
Hurricanes/Cyclones/Typhoons/Tornados

Hysteria: Rain
Forests/Boreal/Tundra/Permafrost

Hysteria:
Rain/Snow/Hail/Fog/Other Weather

Hysteria:
Rain/Snow/Wind/Hail/Fog/Other Weather

Hysteria:
Sand/Dust Storms

Hysteria:
Seas Rising/Acidic Oceans/Ocean Circ

Hysteria:
Species Endangerment/Extinction

Hysteria:
War/Conflicts/Terrorism

Mainsteam
Media Bias/Distortion/Deceit/Stupidity

Non Climate
Issue: Immigration

Non
Climate Issue: Internet censorship

Non-Climate
Issue: Incompetent Government

Non-Climate
Issue: Public Employees/Unions

Nuclear Energy

Politics:
Presidential Candidates

Rare Earth

Renewables:
Algae/Wood/Cellulosic

Renewables:
Bio-Diesel/Ethanol

Renewables:
Energy Fraud/Scam/Failure/Prob.

Renewables:
Energy Independence

Renewables:
Green Jobs

Renewables:
Solar/Wind

Republicans: Memo
To

Science /
Academia Journals Bias/Distortion

Technology
Solutions: CO2 Reduction

Temp
Readings: Balloons/Buoys/Satellite/Surface/Urban/Rural

Temp Readings: Ice Core/Other
Proxy Data

Twitter

UN-IPCC/World
Govt

Videos/Podcasts