Environmentalists Attack Reuters Journalist for Thoughtcrime of Doubting Global Warming: ‘The global warming inquisition is hoping to make an example of a heretical reporter whose only sin is healthy skepticism’
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Arctic Sea Ice Melt Slowdown Begins More Than One Month Early – And Absolute Dead Media Silence On Expanding Antarctica Sea Ice!
…21st Daily Record of Year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent (tying 2007)
…Tornadoes Close To Record Low Level: ‘July are one of the lowest on record, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Centre’
Tornadoes Close To Record Low Level
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/tornadoes-close-to-record-low-level
By Paul Homewood
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/#data
Provisional tornado numbers up to the 30th July are one of the lowest on record, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Centre.
The figures are based on LSR’s, or Local Storm Reports. It usually takes about three months for tornadoes to be confirmed and graded, with some LSR’s discarded as either duplications or found not to be tornadoes.
The top chart uses percentiles, based on 1954-2012, so giving a longer historical perspective. As many smaller tornadoes were not even reported in earlier decades, the SPC adjust earlier years up to compensate.
Last year’s tornado numbers were also extremely low, which is interesting given the contrast in US temperatures between last year and this. The two GISS maps below show the Spring temperature anomalies for each year.
The SPC themselves admit they don’t understand how tornadoes form, but an important ingredient is the collision of cold, dry air and warm moist air. In 2012, most of the country, and certainly tornado alley, was consistently warm. This year, it has been consistently cold, even down to the gulf. By and large, the conditions needed for the collision of warm and cold air have not existed.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/nmaps.cgi?year_last=2013&month_last=6&sat=4&sst=3&type=anoms&mean_gen=0303&year1=2013&year2=2013&base1=1981&base2=2010&radius=1200&pol=reg
Now contrast the last two years with 2011, when tornadoes were near to record highs. The difference is very obvious.
Most tornadoes occur between April and July, so, fingers crossed, tornado numbers will remain at a very low level for the rest of the year.
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/tornado/clim/tornadoes_bymonth.png
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Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Breaking All Records
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Breaking All Records
By Paul Homewood
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html
Antarctic sea ice extent at the end of July was the highest on record for that day, growing to 18.077 million sq km. The previous record of 17.783 was set in 2010, whilst the 1981-2010 average was 16.869.
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/
Ice extent has been above average all year, and, according to NSIDC, is outside the 2 Standard Deviation range now.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/index.html
Sea ice area also continues to run at well above average.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.antarctic.png
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Record Antarctic Ice EXPANSION: 10th Daily Record in 11 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
10th Daily Record in 11 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent
August 1 (Day 213) saw the 10th Daily Record in 11 Days for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent. Click graph for bigger. Data is here.…
North Pole Sees Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record — ‘Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that’
Unprecedented July Cold – Arctic Sees Shortest Summer On Record
http://iceagenow.info/2013/08/unprecedented-july-cold-arctic-sees-shortest-summer-record/
“Normally the high Arctic has about 90 days above freezing. This year there was less than half that,” says Steven Goddard website.
Graph courtesy of COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Thanks to F. Guimaraes for this link
“The Arctic ice extent is showing a remarkable recovery from the great oscillations of 2012,” says Guimaraes. “Compare with the previous years listed there, you’ll see that 2004 is the year that is closest to 2013 in terms of average temps during the summer.”
(You can compare by looking at the Archives (Arkiv) on the left side of the page.)
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If warmth really causes murder, why is Detroit’s murder rate maybe 30 times higher than a warmer place like Scottsdale?
If warmth really causes murder, why is Detroit’s murder rate maybe 30 times higher than a warmer place like Scottsdale?
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/08/if-warmth-really-causes-murder-why-is.html
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