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UPDATE: In a recent paper, the climate scientist authors refer not to the onset of the Dark Ages Cold Period (c. A.D. 450-950), but to a period of “increased climate variability”. (This variability refers to variations in the hydroclimatic cycle.) The BBC uses the term “climate instability”, which is an amusing term because, of course, the climate is inherently unstable and largely unpredictable. There have been warm periods and cold periods, as well as prolonged droughts and flooding rains, throughout history, and they have been outside of our control or influence.

The paper’s abstract insists that the recent global warming (assuming they mean since the industrial era c. A.D. 1760) is unprecedented, despite acknowledging that past extremes of drought and flood have exceeded anything in the present. So, this begs the question, how can a modern warm period be so unprecedented when it is supposed to increase…

NSIDC begins their Arctic sea ice graphs in 1978-1979 – which creates the impression that Arctic sea ice is steadily declining.

Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis | Sea ice data updated daily with one-day lag

They ignore satellite data prior to 1978, which shows that Arctic sea ice extent was two million km² lower in 1974. The graph below was in the 1995 IPCC report.

The Arctic is not melting down. It is currently the thickest since 2006, and thickness is about the same (2 meters) as it was 75 years ago.

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Papers Past — Auckland Star — 14 December 1940 — WARMER ARCTIC

An EIA report says that the Clean Power Plan will result closing 90GW of coal power instead of 40 GW estimated by EPA. 

Twenty five years ago, the IPCC reported a strong Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age.

In 1992, the New York Times reported that the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were “global climate phenomena, not regional temperature variations”

Lisa J. Graumlich, who examines the ring patterns of foxtail pine trees and western junipers in the Sierra Nevada, has compiled a detailed record of the year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation over the last thousand years.

She has seen in the North American trees the feathery but unmistakable signatures of the Medieval Warm Period, a era from 1100 to 1375 A.D. when, according to European writers of the time and other sources, the climate was so balmy that wine grapes flourished in Britain and the Vikings farmed the now-frozen expanse of Greenland; and the Little Ice Age, a stretch of abnormally frigid weather lasting roughly from 1450…

The sun has reached its highest elevation in the northern hemisphere, and the Arctic melting scam is in complete collapse. Arctic sea ice continues to track 2006, the year with the highest summer minimum of the past decade.

 Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Greenland is having their coldest summer on record. I will be flying over still snowy Nuuk later today, though I anticipate that clouds will obscure the view.

Greenland’s surface has gained 550 billion tons of ice since September, and with only a few weeks left in the melt season has seen no net melting.

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Budget: DMI

Climate experts say that the Arctic will be ice-free in a few weeks, because they are paid by governments to produce propaganda for political purposes.

Arctic sea ice ‘to melt by 2015’ – Telegraph