GISS Diverging From UAH At 0.3C Per Century

http://www.woodfortrees.org/data/uah/from:1979/plot/gistemp/from:1979

Berwyn Explains How Huge Amounts Of Greenhouse Gas Causes Minimal Glacial Loss

The vast majority of climate scientists agree that human activities like pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is warming the planet ….

One unexpected study result from GRACE was that the estimated ice loss from high Asia mountains — including ranges like the Himalaya, the Pamir and the Tien Shan — was only about 4 billion tons of ice annually. Some previous ground-based estimates of ice loss in the high Asia mountains have ranged up to 50 billion tons annually, Wahr said.

http://summitcountyvoice.com/

Al Jazeera : Cold Is Superficial – Arctic Ice Gone In Three Years

On a superficial level, providing an explanation for the cold weather across Europe is relatively straightforward.

But with global temperatures on the rise – the 20 warmest years in the last 110 have all occurred since 1987 and the last 11 years have featured in the top 12 years on record – surely this exceptionally cold (although not unprecedented) weather flies in the face of global warming?

But scientists at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research claim that warming of the Arctic Ocean and the subsequent melting of sea ice are, more likely than not,  responsible for the cold winter weather.

The demise of Arctic sea ice in recent years is beyond dispute:  in December 2011 the extent of sea ice was the third lowest on record since 1979 and some scientists claim that summer sea ice could disappear as early as 2015

http://www.aljazeera.com/

Most Corrupt President Ever?

House Republicans are pressing forward with a probe into a $535 million loan guarantee to a California-based solar panel manufacturer, charging that the Obama administration may have improperly awarded the loan to a company whose major investor was a bundler for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

The company, Solyndra, Inc., announced earlier this week that it will file for bankruptcy, putting 1,100 employees out of work and likely leaving taxpayers on the hook for much of the massive loan.

http://www.latimes.com/

h/t to Ralph

Shock News : Polar Bear Killed A Seal

This is gruesome. The bear does not respect life. Can they be trained to make tofu?

Burlington, Vermont Received Almost Twice As Much Rain In August, 1955

So far this month, Burlington, Vermont has received 6.09 inches of rain.

http://www.wunderground.com/

In August 1955, Burlington received 11.54 inches of rain.

In August 1965, Burlington received 6.27 inches of rain. In August 1977, Burlington received 6.27 inches of rain. In August, 2004, Burlington received 7.87 inches of rain. All higher than August 2011.

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/

Joe Romm says that this month’s rains are 100 year rains. Because he doesn’t check facts and spouts alarmist nonsense almost 24X7.

Cherry Picking At The North Pole

North Pole sea ice half as thick as 2001
Doug O’Harra | Aug 25, 2011

Sea ice floating near the top of the world appears to be half as thick as it was 10 years ago, according to reports from a premier German research icebreaker on a nine-week mission to survey the Arctic Ocean from one side to the other.

The 387-foot Polarstern plowed through floes at the geographic North Pole at exactly 11:42 p.m. ADT on Aug. 21 and is now steaming south toward Canada, according to this story posted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.

Over the past few weeks, initial measurements of sea ice have averaged about .9 meters or about three feet — 1.1 meters thinner than comparable measurements taken in 2001, the last time the Polarstern visited the North Pole and a season when observed floe depth matched the long-term average.

But in what could be a disconcerting harbinger for the 2010 melt season — about to reach its low point during the next three to four weeks — the ice thickness measured by Polarstern scientists this summer is almost exactly the same as measurements taken in the central Arctic in 2007.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/

North Pole ice gets carried out the Fram Strait and is often thin. In the 1950s submarines surfaced at the North Pole in the winter in very thin ice. But if you go a short distance towards Alaska or Canada, the ice is much thicker .  What a complete load of cherry picked BS.