Sea Ice Update May 17 2014 – Antarctic 69th Daily Record of 2014 – Global Sea Ice 610,000 sq km Above Normal

Sea Ice Update May 17 2014 – Antarctic 69th Daily Record of 2014 – Global Sea Ice 610,000 sq km Above Normal

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A quick update for sea ice extent for day 136 of 2014:

Global Sea Ice Extent is 610,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1,202,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That is the 69th daily record of 2014.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -593,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean.

NOAA Data here and here here.
Graphs below. Click for bigger.…

Finally – real climate refugees? Funding axe may force climate scientists to ‘leave the country in order to find work elsewhere’

Finally – real climate refugees? Funding axe may force climate scientists to ‘leave the country in order to find work elsewhere’

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/18/finally-real-climate-refugees-funding-axe-down-under-may-force-climate-scientists-to-leave-the-country-in-order-to-find-work-elsewhere

Australian Government To Axe $5 Billion Of Climate Funding – Lydia Bradbury, Liberty Voice The funding for all government programs related to climate change is set to shrink at an alarming rate, going from $5.75 billion this year to a scant $500 million in the next four years.  The fallout from the new government’s budget […]…

Ten Good Reasons Not To Worry About Polar Bears

Ten Good Reasons Not To Worry About Polar Bears

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/18/ten-good-reasons-not-to-worry-about-polar-bears

Susan Crockford writes: This year marks the 40th anniversary of the signing of an international agreement to protect polar bears from commercial and unregulated sport hunting. The devastating decades of uncontrolled slaughter across the Arctic, including the Bering Sea, finally came to an end. And so in honour of the International Polar Bear Day (27 February) – […]…

Report: ‘Mainstream media don’t know Big Green has deeper pockets than ‘Big Oil’ – Warmist ‘climate change campaign alone has well over a billion dollars annually’

Nor would they discover who started the anti-Keystone campaign in the first place. It was the $789 million Rockefeller Brothers Fund (established in 1940). The fund’s program is elaborated in a 2008 PowerPoint presentation called “The Tar Sands Campaign” by program officer Michael Northrop, who set up coordination and funding for a dozen environmental and anti-corporate attack groups to use the strategy, “raise the negatives, raise the costs, slow down and stop infrastructure, and stop pipelines.” Tom Steyer’s $100 million solo act is naive underclass nouveau cheap by comparison.

Mainstream reporters appear not to be aware of the component parts that comprise Big Green: environmentalist membership groups, nonprofit law firms, nonprofit real estate trusts (The Nature Conservancy alone holds $6 billion in assets), wealthy foundations giving prescriptive grants, and agenda-making cartels such as the 200-plus member Environmental Grantmakers Association. They each play a major socio-political role.…