Mainstream Journalism Remains Catatonic As Antarctica Sees Year-Long Series Of Record High Sea Ice Extents

Mainstream Journalism Remains Catatonic As Antarctica Sees Year-Long Series Of Record High Sea Ice Extents

http://notrickszone.com/2014/09/15/mainstream-journalism-remains-catatonic-as-antarctica-sees-year-long-series-of-record-high-sea-ice/

Here’s proof that mainstream media journalism is either sloppy and just too lazy to check the data themselves, or is catatonically stuck in their now 18-year long illusion of global warming. Recently a number of leading media outlets trumpeted (loudly) scary claims of “accelerating polar ice melt”. For example last May Germany’s leading online financial daily Handelsblatt cited a NASA study appearing in the Geophysical Research Letters and reported: “Polar ice melting much faster than assumed“, and warned of sea levels rising more than a meter. Antarctica sets satellite-era all time record high sea ice extent. Source: sunshinehours.wordpress.com It’s obvious that neither journalists and nor NASA scientists have been looking at what is really happening. Antarctica has spent much of the current year smashing one daily maximum sea ice record after another. Today we see that Antarctic sea ice has totally smashed the all-time satellite-era record (see chart above). So far not a peep on that from the German mainstream media. Instead it’s been all about meltdown. Citing the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, German news weekly Stern wrote: “The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at record speed, according to satellite measurements.” Let’s wait and see if the reality-disconnected Stern will report on the record Antarctic sea ice in the days and weeks ahead. In the meantime we just have to think they and the AWI are really reporting on a different planet, one perhaps made of cheese. Last month Spiegel here cited a study by Heinrich Miller of the AWI and reported that “both polar caps are melting more rapidly than originally thought“. Obviously the record high ice extent at the South Pole hasn’t made an impression on Spiegel. To be fair, when the reader wades deeper into the Spiegel article, we find out that the rapid south polar melting they write ABOUT is actually restricted to the West Antarctic Ice Shelf, an area that is only 1% of Antarctica’s total surface area and not representative of the South Pole. As the chart above indicates, we can expect to see more smashed all-time records in the days ahead. It will be interesting to see if the media and scientists remain in their 18-year long catatonic state of a melting and warming planet illusion.  

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Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: What if the Global Warming ‘Pause’ was ‘Fast Forward’ Instead?

What if the Global Warming “Pause” was “Fast Forward” Instead?

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/09/what-if-the-global-warming-pause-was-fast-forward-instead/

I’d like to take you through a little thought experiment. We all know that global warming has been on hiatus – set on pause – however you like to characterize the lack of significant warming, for over 15 years. Depending on how you do the statistics, the vast majority of the climate models used to guide our energy policy have over-predicted the surface warming trend since the satellite record began way back in 1979. Oh, and those aren’t just failed forecasts…they are failed hindcasts. Even knowing the answer, the climate modelers can’t explain why the Earth hasn’t warmed as fast as it was supposed to. The most cited potential reason for this unexpected inconvenience is that the oceans have been taking up the extra heat and replacing it with cooler water from the ocean depths. In that scenario, the natural ocean surface-cooling mechanism now in progress (if it exists) will eventually go back to normal, and surface warming will return with a vengeance. Just you wait and see. But what if this supposed natural ocean fluctuation, which is supposedly cooling the surface, was reversed? What if warming was set on fast forward, rather than pause? What if surface warming was progressing faster than 95% of the climate models had predicted, rather than slower than 95% of the models? How would the global warming establishment be playing it? After watching the IPCC crowd for the last 25+ years, I feel pretty confident they would be falling all over themselves declaring “it’s worse than we thought!” They would be adjusting the sensitivity of their models to produce even more warming. Yet, they would never substantially reduce the climate sensitivity of their models to produce less warming, as seen in nature. In other words, if warming hasn’t materialized, then we must have faith that it will eventually appear – because the climate system must be really sensitive… So that the climate researchers’ lives have meaning. But…if there happens to be *faster* warming than expected, well, the experts would be all too willing to adjust their models to have even greater climate sensitivity. This is a reflection of the fact that the global warming establishment is biased toward high climate sensitivity. It is a specific example of the tendency of natural scientists to view nature as fragile, full of tipping points and hobgoblins. …

Antarctic Sea Ice AREA Near All-Time Record As Well – Day 255 – 29,600 sq km Short of All-Time Record

Antarctic Sea Ice AREA Near All-Time Record Too – Day 255 – 29,600 sq km Short of All-Time Record

http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/antarctic-sea-ice-area-near-all-time-record-too-day-255-29600-sq-km-short-of-all-time-record

I usually graph Sea Ice Extent. Every once in a while I graph Sea Ice Area. “A simplified way to think of extent versus area is to imagine a slice of swiss cheese. Extent would be a measure of the edges of the slice of cheese and all of the space inside it. Area would be the measure of where there is cheese only, not including the holes. That is why if you compare extent and area in the same time period, extent is always bigger.” http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/faq/#area_extent Antarctic Sea Ice Area is within 29,600 sq km of an all time record (which occurred in 2007 at 16.23238 million sq km). Day 255 is 5th behind 2 days in 2007 and 2 days in 2012. Chris Beal reminded me.

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Up, up, and away! Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Expands Even More – Sets Yet Another All-Time Record – ‘18,000 sq km higher than yesterdays record. And 170,000 sq km higher than 2013’s all-time record’

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 15 2014 – Another All-Time Record

http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/antarctic-sea-ice-extent-sept-15-2014-another-all-time-record

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 15 2014 – 1,224,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 257. Data here. 18,000 sq km higher than yesterdays record. And 170,000 sq km higher than 2013’s all-time record.

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