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Tuesday August 19, 2008 14:15 |
There's Something Rotten North of Denmark Published Friday 15th August 2008 10:02 GMT Just a few weeks ago, predictions of Arctic ice collapse were buzzing all over the internet. Some scientists were predicting that the "North Pole may be ice-free for first time this summer". Others predicted that the entire "polar ice cap would disappear this summer". The Arctic melt season is nearly done for this year. The sun is now very low above the horizon and will set for the winter at the North Pole in five weeks. And none of these dire predictions have come to pass. Yet there is, however, something odd going on with the ice data. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado released an alarming graph on August 11, showing that Arctic ice was rapidly disappearing, back towards last year's record minimum. Their data shows Arctic sea ice extent only 10 per cent greater than this date in 2007, and the second lowest on record. Here's a smaller version of the graph:  The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)'s troublesome ice graphThe problem is that this graph does not appear to be correct. Other data sources show Arctic ice having made a nice recovery this summer. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center data shows 2008 ice nearly identical to 2002, 2005 and 2006. Maps of Arctic ice extent are readily available from several sources, including the University of Illinois, which keeps a daily archive for the last 30 years. A comparison of these maps (derived from NSIDC data) below shows that Arctic ice extent was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on the August 12, 2007. (2008 is a leap year, so the dates are offset by one.) |
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Tuesday July 29, 2008 00:55 |
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Anchorage Daily News
Published: July 24th, 2008 12:10 AM  CHILLY: Anchorage could hit 65 degrees for fewest days on record.
The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees. That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark, which many Alaskans consider a nice temperature, 16 days out of 365. This year, however -- with the summer more than half over -- there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. And that's with just a month of potential "balmy" days remaining and the forecast looking gloomy. National Weather Service meteorologist Sam Albanese, a storm warning coordinator for Alaska, says the outlook is for Anchorage to remain cool and cloudy through the rest of July. |
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Thursday July 10, 2008 23:23 |
From AmericanThinker.com
By Larrey Anderson
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (more true today than ever):
The "energy plan" announced by the Democrats offers one thing: a significant slowdown of our economy for at least twenty years. Those who run both legislative branches of the congress, and the energy plans of both of their leading candidates for president clothe themselves in the mantle of righteousness. That the Republicans are allowing this to happen, right before our eyes, tells us much
From their official website, here is the summary paragraph (including the bad grammar) of the Democrat plan to solve the energy crisis:
We will create a cleaner, greener and stronger America by reducing our dependence on foreign oil, eliminating billions in subsidies for oil and gas companies and use the savings to provide consumer relief and develop energy alternatives, and investing in energy independent technology.
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Wednesday July 02, 2008 16:38 |
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Excerpts From Roy Spencer's Climate Confusion (pgs 96-102)  One of the definitions for religion in Webster’s dictionary is “a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith.” While global warming is a legitimate area of scientific study, those who believe in the catastrophic view of manmade global warming might best be described as religious disciples.
For them, human interference in the climate system is evil. Without mankind the Earth would be undefiled. Our use of natural resources is a transgression against our Mother Earth. Global warming as “bad” is a philosophical or religious belief, not a scientific one. As I mentioned before, science doesn’t care whether the Earth is warming, cooling or staying the same. Does the Earth have some divine right to remain untouched by mankind? Why are all other parts of nature allowed to influence the climate system, but not humans?
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Wednesday July 02, 2008 16:21 |
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Excerpts from Roy Spencer's Climate Confusion (pg. 96)
We now know that the extra carbon dioxide and global warmth, no matter what their cause, are resulting in a gradual greening of the Earth. There is some evidence that there has been a slight poleward shift in the habitats of some warm weather species, from the tropics where there is greater diversity of life, towards higher latitudes where many of these forms of life could not otherwise survive. Global warming has made winters less severe, and cold weather is known to cause more deaths than hot weather. So why is global warming necessarily a bad thing? I'm sure if mankind were accused of global cooling causing a destruction of carbon dioxide (which is food for vegetation) there would be howls of protest that we are strangling the biosphere! So, why are we not hearing the environmentalists applauding humanity for helping to create more life?
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