Arctic ice loss was hyped: ‘ There’s a terrible sense of deja vu about this story — Winds ‘wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover’ — ‘This is exactly what happened in 2007’
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New paper shows how natural variability controls North Atlantic climate — A new paper published in Nature Geoscience
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Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: Over the climate time scales ‘droughts have, for the most part, become shorter, less frequent, and cover a smaller portion of the U. S. over the last century’
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Gore’s back! Al Gore to do ‘dirty weather report’: ‘To show links between climate change and the effects of extreme weather worldwide with an online and social media-fueled event’
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UN IPCC’s Richard Tol mocks fellow UN IPCC’s Michael Mann: ‘Michael Mann takes Steven Levitt to task for writing outside his discipline, and then writes about economics’
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Gore’s last show did not go over so well with his fellow warmists: Flashback 2011: Greens Give Gore 2 Thumbs Down: Gore’s climate ‘reality’ show faces strongly negative reviews
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Watch Now: Gore’s ‘Dirty Weather’ Warning To Fight A More ‘Just Planet’: Gore: ‘We face a global crisis of unprecedented proportions’
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Heavy discounts only way to sell Chevy Volts: ‘GM’s discounts on the Volt are more than four times the industry’s per-vehicle avg.’
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NASA finally admits it Arctic cyclone in August ‘broke up’ and ‘wreaked havoc’ on sea ice — Reuters reports Arctic storm played ‘key role’ in ice reduction
In a September 18 video posted by NASA on its website, they admit that the Arctic cyclone, which began on August 5, “wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover” by “breaking up sea ice.”
Global warming activists have been giddy in their hyping of the satellite era record low Arctic sea ice extent while ignoring the satellite era record sea ice expansion in the Antarctic.
Many climate activists have sought to downplay the significance that the Arctic cyclone played on this year’s summer sea ice in the Arctic. But this new inconvenient video report from NASA now makes the warmists’ attempt to deny the cyclones role in 2012’s Arctic sea ice conditions — impossible.
The September 18 NASA video notes: “A powerful storm wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover in August 2012. This visualization shows the strength and direction of the winds and their impact on the ice: the red vectors represent the fastest winds, while blue vectors stand for slower winds.”
Reuters news service filed a September 21 report based on NASA’s video admission titled: “NASA says Arctic cyclone played ‘key role’ in record ice melt.” The news segment details how the Arctic sea ice was reduced due to “a powerful cyclone that scientists say ‘wreaked havoc’ on ice cover during the month of August.” (Reuters on “Arctic Cyclone” — 0:47 second long segment — Rob Muir reporting.)
Reuters – Sept. 21 – “NASA says a powerful cyclone formed off the coast of Alaska in early August and moved toward the center of the Arctic ocean, weakening the already thin sea ice as it went.
A large section North of the Chukchi Sea was cut off by the churning storm and pushed south to warmer waters where it melted.
The cyclone remained stalled over the arctic for several days…Scientists say a similar storm decades ago would have had much less impact on the sea ice because they say the ice was not as vulnerable then as it is now.”
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End Reuters news segment.
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Update: ‘Uncommon event’ — NASA estimates there have only been about ‘8 storms of similar strength during August in the last 34 years.” NASA explains that the Arctic cyclone of August 5, had an “had an unusually low central pressure area.”
Excerpt: Paul A. Newman, chief scientist for Atmospheric Sciences at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, …
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