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What are these people going to do when their doom-and-gloom scenarios don’t come to pass?

Arctic Sea Ice Melt Season Officially Over; ice up over 9% from last year

We have news from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).  They say: The melt is over. And we’ve added 9.4% ice coverage from this time last year. Though it appears NSIDC is attempting to downplay this in their web page announcement today, one can safely say that despite irrational predictions seen earlier this year, we didn’t reach an “ice free north pole” nor a new record low for sea ice extent.

Polar bears were unavailable for comment.  (HT: Watt’s Up With That)

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What is up with all the scientists who simply refuse to kowtow to their global warming overlords?  Don’t they realize they could be ex-communicated from AlGore’s Church of Global Warmenism?

50,000 new Deniers:  The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming “incontrovertible.”

In a posting to the APS forum, editor Jeffrey Marque explains,”There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.”

The APS is opening its debate with the publication of a paper by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, which concludes that climate sensitivity — the rate of temperature change a given amount of greenhouse gas will cause — has been grossly overstated by IPCC modeling. A low sensitivity implies additional atmospheric CO2 will have little effect on global climate.

(HT: Small Dead Animals)

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In the spirit of the festive occasion, here’s a Kathy Shaidle post from last year:

Did your children celebrate Lenin’s birthday in school last week?

Don’t answer “no” right away.

The first Earth Day “teach-in” was celebrated on April 22, 1970, to protest the Vietnam War, pollution, and littering - and to commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday of one of history’s most notorious villains.

As the father of communism, the deaths of tens of millions of people can be laid at that Soviet dictator’s doorstep. That now forgotten fact about Earth Day’s origins should place your child’s sudden enthusiasm for recycling, saving the panda bears and energy efficient light bulbs in a new, well, light.

Like the Marxist philosophy that inspired it, today’s environmental movement has become, for its most ardent proponents, an ersatz religion. As Joseph Brean recently observed, “in its myths of the Fall and the Apocalypse, its saints and heretics, its iconography and tithing, its reliance on prophecy, even its schisms - the green movement now exhibits the same psychology of compliance as religion.”

Hmmm.  In Canada, the greenies are mad because (gasp!) corporations got the message.

In honor of Earth Day, I think I’ll fill the tank in my SUV.  IMAO celebrates with interesting earth facts.

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“I have no doubt, none at all, that we are in the midst of a global warming, or, as I prefer to call it, spring.“   (Vice President Cheney at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association)

I always knew I liked that guy.  (HT: Tim Blair, by way of Dustbury)

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The Norwegians have come up with a way to support their economy and their whaling industry while poking a finger in the eye of the global warmening crowd.

OSLO (Reuters) - Eat a whale and save the planet, a Norwegian pro-whaling lobby said on Monday of a study showing that harpooning the giant mammals is less damaging to the climate than farming livestock.

Environmental group Greenpeace dismissed the survey, saying almost every kind of food was more climate friendly than meat.

By definition, you can dismiss the Greenpeace dismissal.  They oppose any form of whaling, fishing, or economic progress.  In the Antarctic, Greenpeace terrorists have repeated harassed Japanese whalers with chemical weapons.

The [Norwegian] survey, focused on whale boats’ fuel use, showed that a kilo (2.2 lbs) of whale meat represented just 1.9 kilo (4.2 lbs) of greenhouse gases against 15.8 for beef, 6.4 for pork and 4.6 for chicken.

“Basically it turns out that the best thing you can do for the planet is to eat whale meat compared to other types of meat,” said Rune Froevik of the High North Alliance, which represents the interests of coastal communities in the Arctic.

“Greenhouse gas emissions caused by one meal of beef are the equivalent of eight meals of whale meat,” the study said.

I think our responsibility is clear: whale burgers, anyone?  It’s for the planet!

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Tags: global whining, Greenpeace terrorists, Norway, whale burgers, whaling

More evidence. Global whining. It’s cold outside. Yawn.

Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.”

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its “lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

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Sometimes the irony is the best part.

Norway’s biggest quake hits Svalbard archipelago

OSLO (Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude — the biggest in Norwegian history — jolted the thinly populated Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic on Wednesday night, the Norsar seismic research institute said on Thursday.

Norwegian media reported no one was hurt by the quake and no damaged had been reported in the islands, about 1,000 km (600 miles) from the North Pole.

“This is the biggest earthquake on Norwegian territory in history,” the institute said in a statement.

“The earthquake happened at sea about 10 km below the surface, and was felt strongly in (the town of) Longyearbyen.”

Norsar said it registered several aftershocks, and predicted there would be more.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and other leaders will be in Svalbard next week for the official opening of a seed vault which will store frozen crop seeds from round the world in case crops are wiped out by a future disaster.

What a shame if the global warmenist fear mongrels save-the-planet efforts were destroyed by the planet.  Who says mythical earth goddesses don’t have a sense of humor?

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They’re not?  Surely global warmening must have melted all their ice by now.  It hasn’t?  And the picture is a fraud as well?  Surely the global warmenists wouldn’t lie to further their own agenda.  Would they?  They would?

Anthony Watts at Watt’s Up With That? has the scoop:

A Canadian blogger, Carole Williams, tells the story behind this picture, which was taken in 2004 just off Alaska by a marine biologist on a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute project, Amanda Byrd.  As the marine biologist (Byrd) points out, the bears were in no danger so close to the coast (they can swim 30 miles).

She just wanted a photograph more of the “wind-sculpted ice” than of the bears. Byrd writes:

“[You] have to keep in mind that the bears aren’t in danger at all. It was, if you will, their playground for 15 minutes. You know what I mean? This is a perfect picture for climate change, in a way, because you have the impression they are in the middle of the ocean and they are going to die with a coke in their hands. But they were not that far from the coast, and it was possible for them to swim.”

The image was copied from the ships computer (where Byrd had downloaded the camera flash memory stick to) by another member of the shipboard research crew and passed on to Environment Canada. Then it was eagerly adopted by many as an example of the fate that awaits the polar bears - including Al Gore, who used the picture as huge projected backdrop in one of his highly lucrative lectures.

Gore said:

“Their habitat is melting,”  “beautiful animals, literally being forced off the planet.”

Audience: [gasp!]

Here’s the link to the original photographer.

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I would think that ‘global warming’ would result in, uh, warmer temperatures.  Tain’t so.

RSS Satellite data for Jan08: 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years

Oh, and all the flap about warming in the arctic?

Arctic sea ice back to its previous level, bears safe; film at 11

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When will the global warmenists admit that they have no clue what’s going on?  The latest bit of hand-wringing from the ‘experts’ states that the number of hurricanes is going to decrease oops, increase oops, decrease because of supposed global warming.

Jan. 23, 2008 — Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research.

The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how man-made global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.

In it, researchers link warming waters, especially in the Indian and Pacific oceans, to increased vertical wind shear in the Atlantic Ocean near the United States. Wind shear — a change in wind speed or direction — makes it hard for hurricanes to form, strengthen and stay alive.

So that means “global warming may decrease the likelihood of hurricanes making landfall in the United States,” according to researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Miami Lab and the University of Miami.

Yawn.  Ah, it seems like only yesterday that we were warned that “more hurricanes with national and world impacts are likely as global warming continues.”  Which is it?  Did I mention that I had to scrape a whole lot global warming off my windshield yesterday?

What nonsense.

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