Thompson said. "In the Arctic Ocean a government report out today shows ice cover this winter was the fifth smallest on record..

Yea, like since the 1970's? Those are the records they are refering to. From the report referenced below:

Satellite-based passive microwave images of the sea ice cover have provided a reliable tool for continuously monitoring changes in the extent of the Arctic ice cover since 1979.

Without any simple curiosity by the world's mainstream media, it's not surprising how difficult to find information - but sometimes it's right there in your face. We all know, even the IPCC folks, that the earth has been in a warming cycle since the end of the Little Ice Age, i.e., Arctic was melting  - and before that it was cooling, i.e., Arctic was freezing. And before that? More of the same. 

I have to suspect that there is a common theme that runs between this often discussed glacier in Greenland (in the Arctic) and the floating ice cap of the Arctic. In NOAA's 2008 Arctic Report Card, I found this little apparently well understood (it's a no-brainer conclusion) observation (my bold):

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/ArcticReportCard_full_report.pdf

On page 34 of 61  -  

Glacier changes

The terminus of Greenland’s largest glacier, the Jakobshavn’s Isbrae near the town of Ilulissat, retreated 0 to 500 m in 2007 (Fig. G3), continuing a retreat that began summer 2001 with a dramatic 11-km floating ice collapse (Weidick and Bennike 2007). The large ice lagoon called Tissarissoq at the south side of the fjord was flushed of ice by the end of the summer, ice-free probably for the first time since at least the onset of the Little Ice Age (ca. 0.4–0.1 ky BP). It is possible that Tissarissoq was ice-free before that time during the medieval warm period (ca. 1.1–0.5 ky BP).

All happened before - and those big cute polar bears survived just fine.

(;~> Gary

I'm pretty much done trying to look for a legitimate reason for global warming that's man made. I keep asking the alarmists for proof. They get angry. I ask for documentation. They scream concensus. I ask for education and understanding. They call me a moronic zealot and walk away. I've concluded these people are the same ones that will drive an extra 20 miles down the road, wasting extra fossil fuels, to go to an organic, low emitions grocery. And they call me the dumb one, heh.

So anyway, the only polar bears and penguins I give a rat's ass about are the Coca-Cola polar bears and the Penguins of Madagascar...

...or and the IceHouse penguin, but I don't think they make that beer anymore... 

http://www.americanw...

<copied from my email sent out about this issue today  - some pictures do not transfer into NewBusters correctly. Use the links provided to see charts and get more info.> - kirch66

Article Source: CNN, retrieved April 7, 2009 (FYI: The last sentence at the bottom of the CNN article says that essentially nothing will come of this break up. Question: THEN WHY IS IT ON THE NEWS? Answer: Because it's presented as part of the planet in peril meme! It serves their agenda if people don't catch that last little bit about it having no impact on anything if this happens.)

If you read the mainstream media, you'd think we are having more "peril" for the environment. Just look at the head line from today, found on CNN, Drudge and even Fox News websites (CNN being the worst instigator of the three).  Yet real climate scientists are saying that the climate has been COOLING for the past few years and may even get cooler (anyone in Texas notice the 20 degree temps we had last night approaching mid-April?)!

For some perspective I've provided an article (see below) from the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP) website which analyzes and writes about actual climate science (such as, summer temps make ice melt! BRILLIANT REPORTING THERE LIBERAL MEDIA!!).  After I spent six years in the Air Force Weather Service, this Anthropomorphic Global Warming alarmism is getting to be quite ridiculous.  Check out the last line of the article in which the author points out that the head of the IPCC is a RAILROAD ENGINEER!!! not a climate scientist!  These are the people making global climate policy and then the liberal media are selling it to the public. Railroad engineers.  Are railroad engineers even real engineers?  Do the have engineering degrees or are they the people who drive the trains?  I had a childhood friend whose father was a railroad engineer and he was a high school drop out and wholly uneducated academically.  Is this who the IPCC is putting in charge of scientific policy?....and Al Gore invented the Internet....sheesh.  I researched Dr. Pachauri.  He has NO, ZERO, ZIP, NADA scientific training in climatology or meteorology.  His scientific background is in Industrial Engineering and Economics!!!  He has some experience as a visiting fellow at the College of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia University (August 1981 -- August 1982) [one year!]; Senior Visiting Fellow, Resource Systems Institute, East -- West Center, USA (May -- June 1982) [possibly less than 1 year]. And he taught some environmental class for a couple of months. That's it!  That gives him the credentials needed to head a global panel determining climatology science as it relates to trends and potential predictions effecting billions of people's lives and international economies????  What his and many other non-climatologist members of the IPCC have as experience is in politics and economics. These are people trying to use this global boondoggle aka "planet in peril" as CNN likes to call it, to create a global wealth redistribution system such as President Obama indicated as his will during his recent trip to Europe and his domestic policies. So the head of the IPCC has no experience in the scientific field he is making policy for, just like Obama (or anyone in his Administration for that matter) has no experience in administering any kind of business or other executive position in his life. Sound about right to me.  

Kirch66
Arlington, TX

"The 10th Amendment to the Constitution is the law most broken by the US Congress."
The least asked question by the US Congress and the American people - 'Does this support or defend the Constitution?'

Friday, April 03, 2009

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Sea Level Has Not Risen for Three Years - New Monthly SPPI CO2 Report

SPPI’s authoritative Monthly CO2 Report shows that in recent years global mean sea level, as measured by the JASON satellite, has not risen for three years, probably in response to ocean cooling.

Main points

The University of Colorado, at SPPI’s request, has updated the sea-level data from the JASON satellite to the end of 2008. Though James Hansen of NASA says sea level will rise 246 feet, sea level has not risen since the beginning of 2006. Sea level rose just 8 inches in the 20th century and has been rising at just 1 ft/century since 1993.

Since Al Gore’s climate movie An Inconvenient Truth was launched in January 2005, global cooling has occurred at the equivalent of 10F (5.5C) per century. If this rapid cooling were to continue, the Earth would be in an Ice Age by 2100.

The UN’s climate panel, the IPCC, had projected temperature increases at 4.5 to 9.5F (2.4 to 5.3C) per century, with a central estimate of 7F (3.9C) per century. None of the IPCC’s computer models had predicted a prolonged cooling.

The IPCC’s estimates of growth in atmospheric CO2 concentration are excessive. They assume CO2 concentration will rise exponentially from today’s 385 parts per million to reach 730 to 1020 ppm, central estimate 836 ppm, by 2100. However, for seven years, CO2 concentration has been rising in a straight line towards just 575 ppmv by 2100. This alone halves the IPCC’s temperature projections.

Sea ice extent in the Arctic recovered to the 30-year average during the early winter of 2008. In the Antarctic, sea ice extent reached a record high late in 2007, and has remained plentiful since. Global sea ice extent shows no trend for 30 years.

The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index is a 24-month running sum of monthly energy levels in all hurricanes, typhoons and tropical cyclones. The Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index hit a 30-year low in October 2008.

Read the full SPPI Monthly CO2 Report including a debunking of railroad engineer IPCC chief Pachauri claims here.

Source: article, retrieved April 7, 2009

"The moment you give up your principles and your values, the moment you laugh at those principles and those values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period." - Oriana Fallaci

One thing is clear- we are in a warm "era" sandwiched between "Ice Ages" as this graph clearly shows.  The zero line is drawn through the median temperature for the warm "era" we are currently experiencing.  The graph covers about 425,000 years of temperature data drawn from an ice core from the Vostok glacier in Antarctica.  Note that there are only five, count 'em, 5, warm eras that ranged from about -2 degrees C to +3 degrees C about the current median line for a total of about 40,000 years.  That may seem like a long time, but the rest of the time was Ice Ages that were from -3 degrees to about -9 degrees centigrade lower than todays median temps.  There were mile thick ice sheets over Chicago at times.  If you read the statist interpretations of this graph, you get a standard recitation that "CO2 drives the temperature changes and the supposed elevation of the CO2 line on the right of the graph shows the necessity of governmental intervention before we all cook to death."  But the inconvenient truth is we are nearer to freezing than to cooking.  We are in one of the two longest lasting warm "eras" that appear on the graph.  Here's an interesting theory that debunks the "CO2 driving temperature" theory within the same article:

When CO2 does not cause these big temperature changes, then what is then the reason for the  big temperature changes seen in Vostok data? Or: “What is the mechanism behind ice ages???”

 

This is a question many alarmists asks, and if you can’t answer, then CO2 is the main temperature driver. End of discussion. There are obviously many factors not yet known, so I will just illustrate one hypothetical solution to the mechanism of ice ages among many:

 

First of all: When a few decades of low sunspot number is accompanied by Dalton minimum and 50 years of missing sunspots is accompanied by the Maunder minimum, what can for example thousands of years of missing sunspots accomplish? We don’t know.

 

What we saw in the Maunder minimum is NOT all that missing solar activity can achieve, even though some might think so. In a few decades of solar cooling, only the upper layers of the oceans will be affected. But if the cooling goes on for thousands of years, then the whole oceans will become colder and colder. It takes around 1000-1500 years to “mix” and cool the oceans. So for each 1000-1500 years the cooling will take place from a generally colder ocean. Therefore, what we saw in a few decades of maunder minimum is in no way representing the possible extend of ten thousands of years of solar low activity.

We are currently experiencing a longer than normal deep solar minimum with 595 days of blank suns (no sunspots) since 2004 when the current mimimum is considered to have started.  87% of 2009, or 84 days have been blank sun days.  Wether we are or not in a new minimum that will lead to the next ice age is speculation at this point, but the statists are running around gathering up as much power as possible to themselves while there is still time, using the fast waning possibility of Anthropogenic Global Warming as their mantra.

Thompson agreed and blamed man for shifts in climate saying, "A situation made worse by manmade global warming that now needs a manmade solution." Her report didn't include any voice of dissent, though many exist.

What is truly laughable is that they call themselves "liberal", which is itself a smear on George Washington and all the liberal founders.  But that is another discussion.  In the meantime, bundle up! ;-) 

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

michaelyon-online.com

So in order to reduce the carbon footprint on the planet, I suggest that all the lefties, MSM and others propagating this commit suicide so as to reduce their 'carbon footprint' and make it more safe and habitable for the rest of us.  This proves more than ever that liberalism is a mental disease.

"To sin by silence when we should protest, makes cowards of men" -Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If we really want to protect the penguins and seals, shouldn't we kill all the polar bears?

Jesus Loves You so much He died for you

Global warming is a very expensive fraud! If it were not for a certain ex vice president having a major investment in 'green' technology companies, this myth would have disappeared years ago.  

President Obama is nothing more than a empty suit; a Hollywood style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to be a total fraud.  

WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION! 

NBC's got to keep the global warming scam going...after all GE has all those compact flourescent screw-in mercury bombs to flog.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill

or is it banning witnesses to the lie of global warming.

lunaticcringeradio

According to research, there was a time we didn't have ice caps; how was it that we have polar bears and penguins now? The bears seem to be OK and the penguins are still there.