Eleven years ago, I started analyzing the junk science behind the Arctic meltdown. This made the purveyors of the Arctic melting scam very angry.

Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered • The Register

And eleven years later, there has been no change in Arctic sea ice.

Spreadsheet  Data

March 14 is on average the peak date for Arctic sea ice extent.  This year it is continuing to increase.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Extent is right at the MASIE average for the date.

The highest March extent occurred in 2o12, which also had the lowest minimum. The lowest March extent occurred in 2006, which also had the highest minimum.  So there is no correlation between winter maximum and summer minimum.

Spreadsheet   Data

Ice extent is “normal” everywhere except the Bering Sea.

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Our top experts said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2008, and almost every year since then.

Expert: Arctic polar cap may disappear this summer_English_Xinhua

North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer

BBC NEWS | UK | Swimmer aims to kayak to N Pole

Star-News – Google News Archive Search

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’

Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014

Wayback Machine

The Argus-Press – Google News Archive Search

Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada

Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe – scientist | Environment | The Guardian

The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015 – The Daily Beast

A farewell to ice | Review | Chemistry World

And President Obama’s science adviser predicted ice-free winters.

…if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.

– John Holdren, 2009

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March 14, 2019 at 09:24AM

The next step is to find the source(s) of the dust, with as yet undetected asteroids thought to be the leading suspects.

Two dusty discoveries may shake up our understanding of the inner solar system, says Fox News.

Mercury shares its supertight orbit with a big ring of wandering dust, a recent study suggests. And a cloud of as-yet-undiscovered asteroids likely gave rise to a similar halo in Venus’ neighborhood, another new paper concludes.

“It’s not every day you get to discover something new in the inner solar system,” Marc Kuchner, a co-author of the Venus study and an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. “This is right in our neighborhood.”

A ring very close to the sun

Both Earth and Venus have collected co-orbiting dust rings, as the planets have shepherded the particles with powerful gravitational tugs. Mercury’s path, however, was thought to be free of such a feature.

“People thought that Mercury, unlike Earth or Venus, is too small and too close to the sun to capture a dust ring,” Guillermo Stenborg, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., said in the same statement. “They expected that the solar wind and magnetic forces from the sun would blow any excess dust at Mercury’s orbit away.”

But Stenborg and his colleagues shattered that expectation. The researchers analyzed images captured by one of NASA’s twin Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft, both of which launched into orbit around the sun in 2006.

The researchers created a model based on these photos in an attempt to “edit out” dust that could make it more difficult to understand the data gathered by STEREO, NASA’s recently launched Parker Solar Probe and other sun-studying craft.

When they applied the model to the STEREO imagery, the astronomers saw dust — a lot more of it than they anticipated.

“It wasn’t an isolated thing,” co-author Russell Howard, also a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, said in the same statement. “All around the sun, regardless of the spacecraft’s position, we could see the same 5 percent increase in dust brightness, or density. That said something was there, and it’s something that extends all around the sun.”

The team calculated that the dust ring is about 9.3 million miles (15 million kilometers) wide. The researchers reported their results last November in The Astrophysical Journal.

Continued here.

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March 14, 2019 at 09:12AM

By Paul Homewood

 

More news you can “trust” from the BBC!

A Northern Ireland council has become the region’s first to look at ways of mitigating the effects of climate change.

It is being run by Derry City and Strabane Council, which saw serious flooding in the summer of 2017.

One hundred people had to be rescued in the north west as two thirds of August’s rainfall came down in nine hours.

Bridges crumbled, cars were washed away and homes and businesses destroyed.

Now experts from London, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland are gathering to offer advice on how to cope with future events.

The conference will examine the council’s emergency planning to see how it might be improved.

But it will also look at use of public spaces to mitigate the effects of flooding and other climate change conditions.

The council owns 230 public spaces in the district.

One of them is Culmore Point Park on the banks of the Foyle.

For more than 30 years it was the city dump, taking thousands of tonnes of domestic rubbish.

It has now been closed, capped and turned into a public park and nature reserve.

But it has also been engineered to provide salt marsh and mud flat habitat for breeding waders.

But the lagoons also double as a sink for sea water during high tide and storm surges which prevents seawater moving up the Foyle and causing problems in the city.

The idea of such so-called "green infrastructure" is to provide a network of interlinked spaces that can be used by the public, whilst simultaneously creating wildlife habitat and helping to manage climate change risk.

The council effort to address climate change predates the 2017 floods.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-47539331

 

As we all know, there never used to be floods in Northern Ireland!

 

The Met Office confirm that rainfall in the area peaked at 61.6mm at Lough Fea, which is about two thirds of the average for the month.

 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/2017/august

 

 

But how unusual is this?

The daily rainfall record for N Ireland is way above the Lough Fea event, and was set in 1968, when 159mm fell at Tollymore.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate-extremes/#?tab=climateExtremes

 

The Met Office monthly report in 1968 indicated that the rainfall was particularly heavy and widespread across the north of England and Scotland as well:

 

 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/library/archive-hidden-treasures/monthly-weather-report-1960s

Across N Ireland as a whole, rainfall on 31st October 1968 averaged 52.57mm, the second highest on the record dating back to 1931. By contrast, on the day of the Derry floods in 2017, the average for N Ireland was just 25.1mm:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadukp/data/daily/HadNIP_daily_qc.txt

 

Indeed the late 1960s were notable for exceptionally heavy rainfall in the Province. The wettest day there was 15th August 1970, and it was also very wet in Nov 1969.

 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/library/archive-hidden-treasures/monthly-weather-report

 

 

Note that the exceptionally heavy rainfall in August 1970 severely affected other parts of the UK as well.

 

Northern Ireland simply has not had such rainfall since.

 

Climate Conference?

 

In fact, the BBC is being rather devious by describing the event as a “Climate Conference”.

The conference blurb reveals that it is really about “green infrastructure”, in other words the provision of green spaces and waterways.

One particular aspect is the rewilding of low lying areas, which can be used as flood defences. labelling it as “climate resilience” will no doubt attract funding, but it has nothing to do with “climate” at all.

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March 14, 2019 at 09:09AM

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