7/16/12, "Offshore drilling: Extra-thick ice freezes early operations in Arctic," E&E reporter, Margaret Kriz Hobson
"There's a rite of passage that plays out in the Arctic each year as the daylong summer sun warms and weakens the thick polar ice pack, eventually clearing the frigid waters
- to make way for ships, hunters and sea life.
This year, the seasonal changes in north Alaska are being closely monitored by an eclectic group of onlookers -- the U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Greenpeace -- all of whom are eager to sail into the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
Ever since 2007, when the Arctic ice cap melted to the smallest size ever recorded,"...
- [Ed. note: "Ever recorded"? It's scientific fact the Arctic has been completely ice free in the past. While agreeing with the 2007 figure (as most do) a science publication says 2007 is only the lowest since the "1970's," that satellite measurements didn't begin until the 1970s.
(continuing, E&E): "conditions in the north have been consistently warmer and the northern waters have remained open for longer periods each summer."...
- [Ed. note: Unfortunately this is quite false, the reverse is true. Arctic ice came back sharply after 2007, seen clearly on the NSIDC graph below.
Below NSIDC graph (from BBC) through April 2012 shows sharp increases since 2007:]
[Ed. note: As you see, the graph happens to start with 1979. If the graph started with for example 1970, it's quite possible it wouldn't look as scary. "Ice extent was at a century peak around 1980, which skews the median upwards."].
(continuing, E&E ): "Scientists refer to the recent weather pattern as the "new normal.""..
- [Ed. note: Which "scientists" say this? This is important as the article conveys that such "scientists" made a multi-billion dollar mistake. See also NSIDC graph through April 2012. To sell "the new normal" is to promote terror of a catastrophically burning planet for which billions of dollars must be and are taken by force from taxpayers and sent anywhere and everywhere, for which the US military is converted to fighting climate terror, and about which people are urged to ridicule and hate those who don't jump on the climate terror gravy train. Children are going hungry right at this moment because of this lie.]
(continuing, E&E): "But this year, a cold winter along the North Slope produced sea ice conditions that were reminiscent of earlier times. In mid-May, Chris Polashenski, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Cold Regions Research Lab, traveled a mile out onto the frozen Chukchi Sea and gauged the ice thickness at 5.9 feet, more than a foot deeper than in recent years."...
- [Ed. note: This author seems surprised to belatedly notice the "science isn't settled." Taxpayers will forgo an apology if you'll tell them where they can go to get back billions of tax dollars sent to pockets of green scams dreamed up by billionaire climate profiteers to fix a non-existent CO2 problem.]
(continuing, E&E): "Although it is quickly melting, the thick ice across the American Arctic has clogged the ocean waters longer than expected, explained Walt Meier, a research scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "We had a lot of ice fairly late in the Bering Sea, and that's slowed down the melt of ice north into the Chukchi," he said.
The delay has been a headache for the Coast Guard, which is setting up operations to monitor the ship traffic that is increasingly flowing through the Arctic. Barrow temperatures are now topping out above 50 degrees Fahrenheit -- balmy by Arctic standards. But with ice remaining a concern, the Coast Guard's ships are still in Dutch Harbor, said Coast Guard Lt. Veronica Colbath, external affairs officer for District 17.
"The ice is starting to recede. But because of the thickness, it hasn't receded in the time frame that people thought," she said. "For safety reasons, the Coast Guard won't be patrolling in the Arctic unless there's open water."
The icy conditions have forced Royal Dutch Shell to delay plans to move its drill ships, the Noble Discoverer and the Kulluk, into the Arctic to explore for oil. Shell had hoped to begin drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in late July. Now the schedule has slipped to the first week of August at the earliest, and both ships are in Dutch Harbor as the company awaits final federal approval....
According to the center's most recent images, ice is receding in the southern and western Chukchi and in the eastern Beaufort. But the sea lanes still are not totally clear.Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center warned that the American Arctic could experience a backlash as a result of the recent cold winter.
"When you lose the ice a little bit later, the ice reflects the solar energy and keeps the ocean waters colder," he explained. "The colder ocean waters will lose whatever heat they gain during the summer faster. That allows ice to regrow more quickly when the sun goes down in the fall."
However, Meier said ice growth depends heavily on this summer's Arctic weather. "It's hard to tell," he said. "It could still gain a lot of heat over the rest of the summertime in those areas."" via Tom Nelson
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National Ice and Snow Data Center website.
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10/26/09, "Palms once grew in ice-free arctic," Reuters by Alister Doyle published in Australian Broadcasting Corporation News in Science
""Palms flourished in the Arctic during a brief sweltering period about 50 million years ago, according to a study that hints at
- gaps in our understanding of modern climate change.
The Arctic "would have looked very similar to the vegetation we now see in Florida," says Dr Appy Sluijs of Utrecht University in the Netherlands who led the international study. Evidence of palms has never been found so far north before. The scientists, sampling sediments on a ridge on the seabed about 500 kilometres from the North Pole and up to 53.5 million years old,
- found pollen from ancient palms as well as of conifers, oaks, pecans and other trees.
"The presence of palm pollen implies that coldest month mean temperatures over the Arctic land masses were no less than 8°C", the scientists, based in the Netherlands and Germany, write in the journal Nature Geoscience.
That contradicts computer model simulations, also used to predict future temperatures, that suggest winter temperatures were below freezing even in the unexplained hothouse period that lasted between 50,000 and 200,000 years ago during the Eocene epoch....
The scientists say the presence of palms, it was not clear if they were trees or plants, hinted that the modern climate system could yield big surprises."
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A region that "in normal years would be accessible by mid-July. This year, it may be unreachable until late July or early August."
5/25/12, "Heavy sea ice could mean slight delay in offshore Arctic drilling," LA Times, Kim Murphy
"The heaviest (Arctic) polar ice in more than a decade could postpone the start of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean until the beginning of August."...
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NSIDC: April 2012 Arctic Sea Ice close to 1979-2012 avg. Good amount of 2 meter+ thickness per US Navy, see comment #5.
5/15/12, "Global temperature and Arctic ice update," BBC, Paul Hudson
"Significantly, April Arctic sea ice was close to the 1979-2012 average, and the highest in April for over 10 years."...
Note: BBC author above, Mr. Hudson, says some say ice cover is thin, but commenter adds scientific source for data saying otherwise (and which per EE article above appears to have been borne out):
5. "At 20:28 15th May 2012, Mick wrote:
"There is a good amount of 2 metre plus ice this year according to this US navy site.
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticictn_nowcast_anim30d.gif
And according to Nansen ice area and extent still pretty much on the longer term average so the claim of ice extent falling sharply seems premature.
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.arctic.png
Could be an interesting season, although current levels are normally considered a poor predictive guide to the peak summer melt, however, a staff member at NSIDC did predict an ice free or nearly ice free summer this year a few years back. Interesting times. :)"
ARCTIC ICE THICKNESS 'NOWCAST' from US Navy:
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March 16, 2009: "Prominent Scientists Continue to Join Report:
Now More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims"
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GAO says $8.8 billion was spent on 'climate' in 2010 alone.
US taxpayer money corrupt and mismanaged countries like the Maldives that flog women. In the US, "compliance with such (EPA) regulations costs the U.S. economy more than $1.75 trillion per year." And $55.4 billion more in policing and administration. EPA's prohibition on light bulbs will cost $10.9 billion a year.
Update: 8/23/11, "The Alarming Cost Of Climate Change Hysteria," Forbes, Larry Bell
"The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) can’t figure out what benefits taxpayers are getting from the many billions of dollars spent each year on policies that are purportedly aimed at addressing climate change.
A May 20 report noted that while annual federal funding for such activities has been increasing substantially, there is a lack of shared understanding of strategic priorities among the various responsible agency officials. This assessment agrees with the conclusions of a 2008 Congressional Research Service analysis which found no “overarching policy goal for climate change that guides the programs funded or the priorities among programs.”
According to the GAO, annual federal climate spending has increased from $4.6 billion in 2003 to $8.8 billion in 2010, amounting to $106.7 billion over that period."...===========================
"Forbes lists medical heiress and founder of Bohemian Companies/Foundation Pat Stryker as number 331 of its top “400 Richest People in America.” Worth $1.3 billion, the Fort Collins resident could single-handedly fund Abound Solar and still be well above the poverty line."
7/3/12, "House investigating bankrupt solar company backed by Obama bundler and DOE loan," Washington Examiner, Joel Gehrke
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4/4/12, "Arctic Shatters More Records," Real Science, Steve Goddard
"Arctic ice extent is the highest in nearly a decade, and has again set the record for both the latest peak and the longest winter. Normally it has been melting for almost a month already." (NORSEX, SSM/1)
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As of Feb. 2012, no Antarctic ice lost in past 30 years per AGU, American Geophysical Union:-------------------------------------------------
2/8/12, "The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows," UK Guardian, Damian Harrington
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6/26/12, "The Incredible Shrinking Carbon Pollution Forecast - Part 2," switchboard.nrdc.org, Dan Lashof--------------------------------------
6/29/12, "US Carbon Output Forecasts Shrink Again," American Interest, Walter Russell Mead
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6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
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6/22/12, "U.S. cuts greenhouse gases despite do-nothing Congress," CNN, Steve Hargreaves
"Even factoring in a stronger economy, forecasters see greenhouse gas emissions continuing to fall."...
=============================4/21/12, "Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
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7/2/12, "CO2 Emissions Will Likely Fall This Year to 1991 Levels," Carpe Diem, Mark J. Perry
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The climate industry has made the rich richer and the poor poorer:
11/23/11, "Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
"SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions."...EU CO2 trading provided "windfall profits" to participants paid for by "electricity customers.""
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4/23/12, "'I made a mistake': Gaia theory scientist James Lovelock admits he was 'alarmist' about the impact of climate change," UK Daily Mail, L. Warren
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe
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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes On Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, M. Schapiro
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1/25/2009, "Global warming industry becomes too big to fail," Timothy Carney, Washington Examiner
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2011 report notes EIA results through 2009, US CO2 emissions dropped steadily since 1999. If, hypothetically, US temperatures have been on the increase, they couldn't possibly be related to US carbon dioxide emissions:4/14/11, "Biggest Drop in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," World Climate Report
"In 2009, greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. experienced their biggest drop since the U.S. Energy Information Administration began tracking them during the 1990-2009 timeframe."...
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4/22/12, "Defense Dept. on front lines of climate-change issue," ArizonaCentral.com, Opinion, by Rafe Sagarin
- 'Climate change' had nothing to do with the largest fire in Arizona history. It was an untended campfire.
"Federal charges have been filed against two cousins accused of accidentally causing the largest forest fire in Arizona's history by leaving a campfire unattended."...
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If you seek "climate action" from the US:
Global Warming "action" was institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st. Today at least 13 federal agencies are tasked with climate "action," $68 billion has been spent on 'climate' just in the past 4 yrs.
US CO2 is now a moot issue. CO2 alarmists won. The US has led the world in dropping CO2 since 2006. Other countries' CO2 hasn't dropped--despite billions spent on cap and trade and extra taxes. Not that CO2 was a problem to begin with. But for those who thought CO2 was bad, congratulations, you won, the US has lost much of its CO2 and is on track to lose more.
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On Goldman Sachs and CO2 fraud from Rolling Stone, July 2009:
7/02/09, "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
- "A groundbreaking new commodities bubble,
- called cap-and-trade.
- except it has one delicious new wrinkle:
If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices
- will be government-mandated.
- Goldman won't even have to rig the game.
7/28/10, "The secrets 10 states and Wall Street don't want you to know," by Mark Lagerkvist, NJ Watchdog
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3/26/12, "Obama Requests $770 Million to Fight Global Warming Overseas," CNS News, Matt Cover
"The Obama administration has requested $770 million in federal funds to combat the effects of global warming in developing countries."...
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