Month: June 2018

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Hudson Bay sea ice update: more ice in the east than usual but less in the west

There’s almost more blue in the Canadian Ice Service “departure from normal” charts for this week than red, which means more sea ice than usual, especially in the eastern half of the bay and northern Labrador. Eventually, the melting ice will force polar bears ashore where they will fast for 4-5 months, living off the fat they’ve put on over the spring feeding season.

Hudson Bay weekly departure from normal 2018 June 25

There is less ice than usual in the northwest sector (see chart below for week of 25 June 2018) but that’s been the case for several years now. However, the amount of thick first year ice still present means this won’t be an early breakup year.

Hudson Bay weekly stage of development 2018 June 25

It used to be that ice disappeared first from eastern Hudson Bay (see chart below from 14 June 2010, an early breakup year) but that pattern has recently reversed. We still don’t know really how this change in sea ice melt pattern has affected polar bears because the data that should show the effects have not been published.

Hudson Bay weekly stage of development 2010_June 14

Nevertheless, all of Andrew Derocher’s collared Western Hudson Bay females were still on the ice  as of 25 June, despite the lack of ice in the northwest region, which means they’ll likely come ashore sometime in July:

WHB females with collars_25 June 2018_Derocher lab

CIS charts for 25 June shows there is more low concentration ice close to shore than Derocher’s map indicates:

Hudson Bay North daily concentration 2018 June 25

Hudson Bay South daily concentration 2018 June 25

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June 27, 2018 at 05:32PM

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Arctic Ocean almost totally ice-covered – Map

On the 26th of June! Where’s that (so-called) global warming?

Look at this map.

  • Purple signifies sea-ice thickness of approximately ½ to 1½ meters (20 inches to 5 ft).
  • Blue or green signifies 1½ to 3 meters ( 5 ft to 10 ft) of ice.
  • Yellow or orange signifies 3 to 4 meters (10 ft to 13 ft) of ice.
  • Red signifies 4 to 5 meters (13 ft to 16 ft) of ice.
  • White signifies zero thickness of ice.

I don’t see much open water. Do you?

Here’s a map of the Arctic Ocean (the area in light blue) from Wikipedia.

http://polarportal.dk/en/sea-ice-and-icebergs/sea-ice-thickness-and-volume/

(The Polar Portal is an Arctic monitoring web-site provided by Danish Arctic research institutions.)

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June 27, 2018 at 03:46PM

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DOOM HEADLINE: ‘Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023’

Yes, we’ve heard this before, again, and again, and again. Further, I’m not sure this fellow qualifies as a “Top Climate Scientist”

From some website called GritPost:

A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.

In a recent speech at the University of Chicago, James Anderson — a professor of atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University — warned that climate change is drastically pushing Earth back to the Eocene Epoch from 33 million BCE, when there was no ice on either pole. Anderson says current pollution levels have already catastrophically depleted atmospheric ozone levels, which absorb 98 percent of ultraviolet rays, to levels not seen in 12 million years.

Anderson’s assessment of humanity’s timeline for action is likely accurate, given that his diagnosis and discovery of Antarctica’s ozone holes led to the Montreal Protocol of 1987. Anderson’s research was recognized by the United Nations in September of 1997. He subsequently received the United Nations Vienna Convention Award for Protection of the Ozone Layer in 2005, and has been recognized by numerous universities and academic bodies for his research.

While some governments have made commitments to reduce carbon emissions (Germany has pledged to cut 95 percent of carbon emissions by 2050), Anderson warned that those measures were insufficient to stop the extinction of humanity by way of a rapidly changing climate. Instead, Anderson is calling for a Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years.

Recovery is all but impossible, he argued, without a World War II-style transformation of industry—an acceleration of the effort to halt carbon pollution and remove it from the atmosphere, and a new effort to reflect sunlight away from the earth’s poles.

This has do[sic] be done, Anderson added, within the next five years.

“The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero,” Anderson said, with 75 to 80 percent of permanent ice having melted already in the last 35 years.

Anderson’s prediction of Arctic sea ice disappearing by 2022 may be closer to reality than a lot of us would hope. In 2016, University of Reading professor Ed Hawkins compiled global temperature data dating back to 1850, prior to the Industrial Revolution of the early 20th century and the oil boom, and turning the data into a time-lapse GIF. The most alarming part of the data showed that temperatures began rising exponentially faster at the start of the 21st century and show no signs of slowing down:

Yawn…

Full story here if you want to bother with it.

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June 27, 2018 at 03:24PM

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CFACT billboard — Russia funneled cash to Greens to cripple energy

CFACT-Putin-Billboard-628x353June 21, 2018 by CFACT

CFACT’s kicked off a new billboard on busy I-10 in Louisiana which reads, “Russia funneled Green groups millions of dollars to oppose fracking & cripple American energy,” and asks, “How’s that for COLLUSION?”

The billboard campaign was spearheaded by CFACT’s Graham Beduze and Adam Houser.

Russia wants to reduce and eliminate competition to its energy exports with the goal of keeping prices high and the world, particularly Europe, dependent on Russian energy.

What better allies could Putin find but the free world’s network of Green pressure groups?

Russia’s actions are well documented in a detailed report released by the U.S. House of Representatives this year.

You can read details about what Russia’s been up to at CFACT.org from CFACT scholars Bonner Cohen here and Paul Driessen here.

Read the full Congressional report on Russia’s collusion with the Greens at CFACT.org.

Question:  Are Russia’s Green allies useful idiots, or willing partners in its anti-energy campaigns?

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June 27, 2018 at 02:39PM