An Inconvenient Truth: The Ice Cap Is Growing

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A report from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado finds that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007. But didn't we hear from the same Center that the North Pole was set to disappear by now? We all deserve apologies from the global warming fanatics who wanted to reshape the world in their image and called those who objected to their wild theories ignorant deniers. They were so convinced the world was ending and only they could save it, yet now they have been exposed as at best wildly idealistic and at worst frauds. They should have to do public penance for their hubris. I suggest they sit on blocks of melting ice and ponder their limitations. Either that or let the polar bears deal with them.
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Ice Cap Is Growing - Water Cooler - Washington Times

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Antarctic sea water shows 'no sign' of warming

SEA water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures despite fears of a thaw linked to global warming that could bring higher world ocean levels, first tests showed yesterday.

Sensors lowered through three holes drilled in the Fimbul Ice Shelf showed the sea water is still around freezing and not at higher temperatures widely blamed for the break-up of 10 shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula, the most northerly part of the frozen continent in West Antarctica.

"The water under the ice shelf is very close to the freezing point," Ole Anders Noest of the Norwegian Polar Institute wrote after drilling through the Fimbul, which is between 250m and 400m thick.

"This situation seems to be stable, suggesting that the melting under the ice shelf does not increase," he wrote of the first drilling cores.

The findings, a rare bit of good news after worrying signs in recent years of polar warming, adds a small bit to a puzzle about how Antarctica is responding to climate change, blamed largely on human use of fossil fuels.

Antarctica holds enough water to raise world sea levels by 57m if it ever all melted, so even tiny changes are a risk for low-lying coasts or cities from Beijing to New York.

The Institute said the water under the Fimbul was about -2.05C. Salty water freezes at a slightly lower temperature than fresh water.

And it was slightly icier than estimates in a regional model for Antarctica, head of the Norwegian Polar Institute's Center for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems, Nalan Koc, said.

"The important thing is that we are now in a position to monitor the water beneath the ice shelf.

"If there is a warming in future we can tell."

She said data collected could go into a new report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due in 2013-14.

The last IPCC report, in 2007, did not include computer models for sea temperature around the Fimbul Ice Shelf.

Experts have generally raised estimates for sea level rise - the United Nations spoke in late 2009 of a maximum 2m rise by 2100, up from 18-59cm estimated by the IPCC in 2007 that excluded any possible acceleration from Antarctica.

The break-up of ice shelves does not in itself contribute to raising sea levels since the ice is already floating.

The risk is that pent-up glaciers on land will flow faster towards the ocean if the shelves are removed.

Last month, most nations agreed at a Copenhagen climate summit to limit any rise in world temperatures to below 2C above pre-industrial times.

But they failed to set cuts in greenhouse gas emissions needed to achieve the goal.


Antarctic sea water shows &#039;no sign&#039; of warming | The Australian

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Mexico has 'the coldest winter in 124 years'

The National Weather Service (NWS) said the country is experiencing a severe winter with cooler temperatures over the past 124 years, is that in Tabasco, where the average monthly mean temperature is 28 degrees and average minimum temperatures month of 21.7 degrees reaching values of 19 degrees in the months of December, January and February, in the last 24 hours, temperatures reached 11 .0 degrees in Cardenas, 11.5 in San Pedro Balancan, Gaviotas and 13.0 degrees in Boca Cerro Tenosique, so it is expected that the thermometers could descend to a more and can break the record of historical minimum temperatures recorded in the eighties.


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[ELVIS]

Lmao!

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Putin worries about 'global cooling'

MOSCOW, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The Russian energy sector needs to take "global cooling" effects into consideration when addressing national challenges, the Russian prime minister said.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said his country faces a variety of challenges as the world moves toward a greener energy policy in the midst of a brutal European cold snap, Russia's ITAR-Tass reports.

"In addition to the global-warming challenges, we need to address 'global cooling' effects and to do so promptly," the prime minister said.

Putin lauded the work of national energy suppliers during the harsh winter gripping Europe, noting they "have been working practically without failures."

He cautioned, however, that there were many problems left unresolved, including breakdowns in national distribution pipelines.

"We need to oversee the process, to promptly react in case of any failure and provide support for municipalities and regions," he said.

Europe is watching developments in the Russian energy sector as it struggles with soaring winter demand. Russia is among the primary suppliers of natural resources to Europe. Moscow, however, is in a deadlock with Minsk over oil export duties, sending jitters through a European community already anxious from 2009 gas disruptions.

Putin worries about 'global cooling' - UPI.com

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Death toll tops 300 as cold wave intensifies in India

New Delhi - At least 326 people have died as a cold wave intensified its grip over northern India following rains in the region, media reports said Wednesday. The northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which has been the worst hit, saw 38 fresh deaths since Monday night while the Himalayan states of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh reeled under sub-zero temperatures, the NDTV news channel reported.

Uttar Pradesh alone has accounted for 300 deaths during the cold snap. Most victims were either among elderly or poor, having inadequate shelter and warm clothing, state officials said.

Meanwhile rains over northern parts of India, including the national capital New Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh since late Tuesday resulted in temperatures plummeting further.

The lowest temperature on the plains was reported from Amritsar, which recorded 2.2 degrees Celsius. In New Delhi, the lowest temperature was recorded at 8.1 degrees Celsius while the maximum stood at 15 degrees on Tuesday.

The regional weather bureau forecast that the cold weather conditions were likely to persist with icy winds blowing from the Himalayas in the north. Rains and thunderstorms are also predicted across the region.

Winters in India are brief, beginning in mid-December and ending by February.

Death toll tops 300 as cold wave intensifies in India : Nature Environment

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Thousands of animals being frozen to death in Scotland's worst winter in 50 years

THOUSANDS of farm animals face being frozen to death as Scotland experiences its worst winter weather in almost 50 years, farmers have warned.
As heavy snow brought more chaos to Scotland yesterday, upland sheep farmers in particular feared that their flocks could be killed as a result of the longest cold spell to hit Scotland's agricultural industry for decades.

The prolonged Arctic blast is now the worst seen in Scotland since 1963, according to First Minister Alex Salmond, who praised workers for keeping key roads open, despite widespread anger that many roads and pavements remain ungritted.

The cold spell is now threatening the lives of thousands of farm animals across the country.

Upland sheep farmers fear that their flocks could be killed as a result of deep snow. Those in hilly areas of the country, where snow drifts are already up to 4ft deep, are finding it increasingly difficult to get vital feed to their herds of cows and flocks of sheep.

Pat Withers, the chief executive of the National Farmers' Union of Scotland, told The Scotsman: "We have some fields where farmers are looking out and can't get to their flocks. They can just see the heads of their sheep poking up above the snow. One more snowfall there – and a bit of wind picking up – and they will lose them."

Mr Withers said the problem was particularly acute in the Highlands, Moray, Aberdeenshire and the Borders.

Some farmers have been unable, for up to eight days, to get vital supplies of supplementary feed to their livestock. They are also being hit by delays in suppliers reaching them along treacherous rural routes.

Rural affairs secretary Richard Lochhead, who is being kept fully briefed on the deteriorating situation, said: "Scotland is in the grip of the harshest winter weather conditions in decades, which is adding to the weight of challenges faced by farmers at this time of year.

"I have been in contact with farmers and industry organisations to keep abreast of the problems created by this unusually bad weather."

Schools and roads all over the country were closed yesterday, with the Borders, North-east and Highlands bearing the brunt of the bad weather.

Last night, several hundred homes in the Kelso and Duns areas of the Borders were without electricity after heavy snow brought down power lines.

A ScottishPower spokesman said engineers were trying to restore supplies as quickly as possible.

Heavy snow and temperatures as low as -11C caused further disruption to roads, railways and airports across the country.

A woman died in a car crash in Shetland, while a 59-year-old pedestrian was seriously injured when he was hit by a car in Aberdeen. Both accidents are believed to be weather-related.

The Met Office said its predicted low of -20C by the weekend would hit sheltered inland areas such as Braemar, with parts of the Central Belt down to -11C by tonight.

The Borders was worst hit by yesterday's snowfall, with major routes such as the A7, A68 and A702 blocked or extremely hazardous.

Police said drivers should not take to the roads "unless it is a life-or-death situation", while all the region's First bus services were cancelled.

The A9 – the main route to the Highlands – reopened, but conditions were "atrocious" and other roads in the north and North-east remained blocked.

ABERDEENSHIRE farmer Tom Johnston spoke of the concerns facing farmers.

Mr Johnston, North East regional chairman of the National Farmers' Union of Scotland, said: "With the volume of snow there is no feed (for animals] except for the feed that you are taking out to them. With lambs and ewes it's important to keep them on a good ration and you have to get feed out on a daily basis. The job is extremely difficult because of the snow and ice.

The danger is that if we get windy weather and the snow blows you get drifts and sheep can actually be buried in the snow."

Livestock being frozen to death in their thousands - The Scotsman

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Canada's Arctic meltdown grows at alarming pace

January 07, 2010

Bob Weber

American researchers suggest the melting season for Arctic sea ice is growing faster across much of the Canadian Arctic than anywhere else in the world.

A recently published article outlines how they used satellite microwave data to measure when sea ice begins to melt in the spring and when it starts refreezing in the fall. The researchers were able to look with 99 per cent accuracy as far back as 1979 and examine the entire circumpolar globe, the first time scientists have been able to do so.

They found that, on average, sea ice has started melting 2.5 days earlier every decade and begun to refreeze 3.7 days later. That means the average melt season is just under 20 days longer than it was 30 years ago.

"All areas in the Arctic show a trend toward earlier melt onset and also a trend toward later freeze-up," says the paper, published in the latest Journal of Geophysical Research.

However, the melt period for ice in several areas of the Canadian Arctic is growing even faster.

In Baffin Bay, at the eastern gate of the Northwest Passage, it is increasing about 20 per cent faster than the global average. And in the Beaufort Sea and Hudson Bay, the melt period is now a full month longer than it was in 1979.

In fact, the melting season for Hudson Bay ice is increasing at one of the fastest paces in the world, probably because it's one of the most southerly ice packs, the report suggested.

Canada's Arctic meltdown grows at alarming pace - thestar.com

[Satan]

I guess the global climate change deniers have never made ice cream, or they would realize what happens when you mix melting freshwater ice with salt.

And yes, the Devil makes ice cream. Can you think of a better way to torment sinners in Hell?

[Hardrock69]

Oooh so the Arctic cap is not frozen for one more week out of the year.

THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING!

LMFAO@Satan!

When I was a kid, my Dad was explaining to me what Hell was, that it was a lake of fire for tormenting bad kids. I said it wouldn't bother me, I would just drink water (this is the wisdom of a 6-year-old). He then replied if I asked for water, the demons would bring me a cup of molten lead.

I had no answer to that.

Satan's Ice Cream! One Helluva good tasting product!

[Igosplut]

The National Weather Service (NWS) said the country is experiencing a severe winter with cooler temperatures over the past 124 years, is that in Tabasco, where the average monthly mean temperature is 28 degrees and average minimum temperatures month of 21.7 degrees reaching values of 19 degrees in the months of December, January and February, in the last 24 hours, temperatures reached 11 .0 degrees........

Is there some kinda weird time-zone thing I'm not getting????

[Nitro Express]

So water freezes in the winter and melts in the summer. How much money was spent on these studies?

[Nitro Express]

I was actually looking forward to global warming. I couldn't wait for Wyoming to become of tropical paradise, now I have to worry about glacial ice. Time to pop another Prozac.

[ZahZoo]

Not sure how accurate any of these predictions are... Climate patterns are a bit strange presently.

Last week parts of the continental US were colder than both the North and South poles...

El Nino is back and strong... but the recent Artic blast that's covered most the US doesn't fit the El Nino model... although this week with the heat wave we're hitting may show El Nino has won the battle with a milder winter to follow...

I don't know... seems the planet and weather is following it's own unpredictable course at the moment. I wouldn't put much faith in any predictions warm or cold at this phase.

I am enjoying seeing temps above freezing though...

[kwame k]

That's it in a nutshell.....if we could predict weather patterns accurately, consistently the weathermen would never be wrong.

I still come back to some simple truths we can all agree on. Polluting the air, water and soil of this planet can not be good for it, period. Raping all the natural resources can not be good for the planet, period. To what degree can be debated ad infinitum.