Record cold in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan

Record cold in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan

http://iceagenow.info/2015/07/record-cold-in-illinois-iowa-kansas-wisconsin-minnesota-indiana-and-michigan/

Some of these records are as much as 10 to 13 degrees below previous records! Some weather records from Wed., July 8, 2015. ———————————————— Record cool-high temps set or tied: Peoria IL 62°F, Moline IL 65°F, Springfield IL 64°F, Lincoln IL 62°F, Topeka KS 71°F, South Bend IN 67°F, Fort Wayne IN 69°F, Lansing MI 67°F, Grand Rapids MI 68°F. Record Low Temps: Milwaukee WI 51°F, Int’l Falls MN 40°F(ties old record from 1958). Record low min AND record low max set or tied: Lamoni IA 57°F and 67°F, Ottumwa IA 55°F and 63°F. Record Maximum Rainfall: Bettles Alaska Boise Idaho McCall Idaho Eureka Airport Nevada Rock Springs Wyoming (four days in a row!), Springfield Illinois (2.13 in), Cape Girardeau Missouri (1.64 in), Reader Andrew Stranglen compiled these from NWS RECORD EVENT REPORT: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/national.php?prod=rer Andrew notes that the above page contains entries for the month of July, but these are only from 7/8. He had to cull through multiple entries for many of the locations in order to sort things out Joplin Missouri (3.14 in), Vichy-Rolla Missouri (1.31 in). The post Record cold in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Michigan appeared first on Ice Age Now.

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South Polar Ice Age: Stations Show “Dramatic” Antarctic Peninsula Cooling Since 1998, Sea Ice Surge

South Polar Ice Age: Stations Show “Dramatic” Antarctic Peninsula Cooling Since 1998, Sea Ice Surge

http://notrickszone.com/2015/07/08/south-polar-ice-age-stations-show-dramatic-antarctic-peninsula-cooling-since-1998-sea-ice-surge/

By Ed Caryl This is a follow-up to the article AWI’s Sloppy Antarctic Peninsula Science…Overlooked GISS Temperature Data, Snowfall Amounts. The reality is that the situation at the South Pole is worrisome. Ocean around Antarctica markedly colder since 2006… It is difficult to believe that global warming/climate change is doing anything to the glaciers of the Antarctic Peninsula and the Western Antarctic. Here is why: The ocean around Antarctica has been getting markedly colder since 2006; sea ice is increasing, especially since 2012; and land temperatures have been cooling since the El Niño of 1998. 0 – 100m ocean temperature plummeting: Figure 1 is the upper 100 meters of ocean south of 60°S. There’s been a rapid cooling since about 2007. Negative numbers are used to select latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere. The source is KNMI, link. Sea ice skyrockets… Figure 2 is the Southern Hemisphere sea ice area anomaly. The source is KNMI, link. Figure 3 is a plot of the annualized ocean temperature and Southern Hemisphere ice extent using the KNMI data from figures 1 and 2. Ocean temperature is inverted to show that the ice extent matches the cooling ocean. Note the correlation between the two curves. Antarctic Peninsula sees dramatic cooling… Figure 4 is a plot of the temperature anomalies at 13 Antarctic stations on or near the Antarctic Peninsula. The baseline is the 1998 to 2014 average for each. Antarctic peninsula has been cooling since 2000. Data source: GISTemp, link. There is a lot a variation in the annual average temperatures for these stations, especially in the years where there were only two stations reporting, Esperanz and Faraday. For that reason, the average in figure 5 begins in 1963 when O’Higgins began reporting. Figure 5 is the average anomaly for the stations in figure 4. There were two peaks in temperature, one in 1989 and a second during the El Niño year of 1998 which caused a steep upward in temperature world-wide, and especially in Antarctica. But since then there has been a dramatic cooling. There is no “hiatus” on the Antarctic Peninsula, there is marked cooling. Larsen Ice Shelf station cooling at a rate of 18°C per century Cooling is especially true of the very location everyone is concerned about, the Larsen Ice Shelf. There is an automated …

High Arctic sea ice coverage just about everywhere, even Hudson Bay

Sea ice breakup update: high ice coverage just about everywhere, even Hudson Bay

http://polarbearscience.com/2015/07/08/sea-ice-breakup-update-high-ice-coverage-just-about-everywhere-even-hudson-bay

There is still a lot of sea ice in Hudson Bay, Foxe Basin, Davis Strait and Baffin Bay this week – more than average for this date – with slightly less than average in the Beaufort Sea. Past behaviour of Western and Southern Hudson Bay polar bears suggests the mean date that bears come ashore for the summer this year will be later than average due to the plentiful ice available, regardless of when polar bear biologists decide that “breakup” has occurred. Hudson Bay, with almost 50% of the bay still covered in ice, has the third highest coverage this week since 1992 (after 2009 and 2004); Davis Strait has the highest coverage since 1992; and Foxe Basin and Baffin Bay have the highest coverage since 1998. For this week, the Beaufort Sea this week has the second highest coverage since 2006 (after 2013), and more ice than was present in 1971, 1982, 1987, 1988 and 1998 – among others. Published data shows that most polar bears of Western Hudson Bay traditionally come ashore in July, but this year it might be late July or even August. Have a look at the charts below. Hudson Bay ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1971-2015 (Fig.1): Figure 1. Hudson Bay ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1971-2015. CIS. Click to enlarge. Davis Strain ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1971-2015 (Fig.2): Figure 2. Davis Strain ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1971-2015. CIS. Click to enlarge. Foxe Basin ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1968-2015 (Fig.3): Figure 3. Foxe Basin ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1968-2015. CIS. Click to enlarge. Baffin Bay ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1968-2015 (Fig.4): Figure 4. Baffin Bay ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1968-2015. CIS. Click to enlarge. Beaufort Sea ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1968-2015 (Fig.5): Figure 5. Beaufort Sea ice coverage for the week 9 July, 1968-2015. CIS. Click to enlarge. Polar bear biologist (University of Alberta) Andrew Derocher, via twitter (Fig. 6), said that by 6 July, 2 out of 9 collared WHB females were onshore, which means most of them are still out on the ice. Figure 6. Tweet from Andrew Derocher noting 2 out of 9 collared WHB females were onshore on 6 July 2015. …

China’s Climate Pledge: ‘If we would like to give then bucket loads of cash, they will build a few wind mills and solar panels, and pocket the rest’

China’s Climate Pledge

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/chinas-climate-pledge/

By Paul Homewood http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/30/china-carbon-emissions-2030-premier-li-keqiang-un-paris-climate-change-summit Guardian readers are no doubt wetting themselves over news that China has now officially submitted its climate plan to the UN: China will aim to cut its greenhouse gas emissions per unit of gross domestic product by 60-65% from 2005 levels under a plan submitted to the United Nations ahead of crucial climate change talks in Paris later this year. The pledge has been eagerly awaited as the country is the world’s largest carbon emitter. China said it would increase the share of non-fossil fuels as part of its primary energy consumption to about 20% by 2030, and peak emissions by around the same point, though it would “work hard” to do so earlier. The figures are contained in a document submitted to the United Nations ahead of the next round of UN climate talks in Paris. All countries are expected to submit their national pledges to reduce carbon emissions beyond 2020, also known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). The pledge consists of three parts: 1) CO2 emissions to peak by 2030 This is something, of course, that we already knew. The real question is what level will they peak at? We need to remember that, as even the BBC were forced to admit last year, CO2 emissions per capita in China surpassed the EU’s in 2013. In that year, China emitted 7.33 tonnes per capita, compared to 7.19 tonnes in the UK. [Based on CDIAC emissions of 9977 and 461 million tonnes respectively, and populations of 1360.7 and 64.1 million] The Guardian, for some reason, thinks this means that the UK is not doing anywhere near enough, while the Chinese are super heroes! 2) Increase non-fossil fuels to 20% by 2030 Note that this is as a proportion of total primary energy consumption, and not just electricity. According to the recent BP Review, in 2014 China’s primary energy consumption was : Mtoe % Oil 520.3 17 Gas 166.9 6 Coal 1962.4 66 Nuclear 28.6 1 Hydro 240.8 8 Renewables 53.1 2 TOTAL 2972.1 http://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/pdf/Energy-economics/statistical-review-2015/bp-statistical-review-of-world-energy-2015-full-report.pdf Non fossil fuels, which of course include nuclear, therefore amounted to 11%. In contrast, the contribution of non fossil in the UK is already 15%, and EU targets mean that this figure will be above 20% even by 2020. Much of China’s targeted increase will be met from Hydro and Nuclear. According to the Pledge Document, …