An efficient way to form lots of Antarctic sea ice during the autumn growth season is to have strong winds that push the ice away from the coastline. Pushing sea ice away leaves open water that can lose heat to the atmosphere, creating more sea ice.

RealClimate: Clarity on Antarctic sea ice.

Steig is blaming the record Antarctic sea ice on global warming, and then describing it is a negative feedback which is somehow consistent with climate models. That directly contradicts the foundations of Hansen’s feedback theories. Hansen predicted peak global warming of 8°C – right where the peak sea ice gain has occurred in the Weddell Sea.

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Hansen also predicted peak sea ice loss in the Weddell Sea, right where the peak sea ice gain has occurred.

No, they didn’t predict it all along, and a negative feedback is a direct contradiction of a fundamental tenet of global warming…

We recently presented and discussed modeled and observed global surface temperatures in absolute terms. See the post On the Elusive Absolute Global Mean Surface Temperature – A Model-Data Comparison. The WattsUpWithThat cross post is here. Yesterday, Willis Eschenbach at WUWT furnished EXCEL spreadsheets that included the outputs of climate model simulations of global surface temperatures in absolute terms. See Willis’s post CMIP5 Model Temperature Results in Excel.

Hot on the heels of those two posts comes a discussion at RealClimate of modeled absolute global surface temperatures, authored by Gavin Schmidt, the head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS).  Gavin’s post is Absolute temperatures and relative anomalies.  Please read it in its entirety.  I believe you’ll find it interesting. (Thanks, Gavin.)

Coral Clues Hint at Looming Global Warming Spike – Scientific American

The deep oceans are much colder than the atmosphere. Heat always flows from warmer objects to colder ones. The oceans can’t “belch heat into the atmosphere” If cold water from the deep oceans came to the surface, the atmosphere would cool  – like a La Nina event.

This 1871 author was ridiculing climate alarmists for exactly the same behavior as the current ones. Exaggerating, misinterpreting data, and blaming climate change on men.

10 Jan 1871 – IMAGINARY CHANGES OF CLIMATE. (Pall Mall Gazette.)

At the summer solstice, Antarctic sea ice extent is near a record maximum, for the second year in a row.  The excess ice is by definition at low latitudes, meaning that it is reflecting a lot of sunlight back into space, which otherwise would have been absorbed in the ocean.

This is of course the exact opposite of the farcical claims being made by leading government scientists, that excess Antarctic sea ice is an indication of global warming.

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In the post NOAA Is Updating Their Sea Surface Temperature Dataset, we introduced a new dataset from NOAA, their ERSST.v4 data, which is an upgrade of their ERSST.v3b dataset. It’s important because ERSST is the sea surface temperature component of the NOAA NCDC merged land + ocean surface temperature data. In this post, we’ll expand the introduction and present a quick look at the data.

How could these climate/meteorology people be so ignorant about the human health effects of warming?

Yet another smoking gun that Michael Mann’s hockey stick is junk science, and opposite of reality.

20 Oct 1939 – LOST MINES REVEALED. EFFECT OF GLACIERS’ RETREAT…

In the 1990 IPCC report, they showed little warming since 1900.

In the 1995 IPCC report, they showed no troposphere warming from 1958 onward.

Now they show the world heating out of control since the start of the 20th century.

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”

― George Orwell, 1984