Guest post by David Middleton BP’s ‘Peak Oil’ Demand Prediction Falls Flat By Jude ClementeFebruary 22, 2019 Always mandatory reading, BP just released its Energy Outlook 2019. It has caused quite a stir again this year. But, this time the commotion that I see surrounds BP’s forecast that the global war on plastics will be the main factor…
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March 11, 2019 at 08:07PM
By Paul Homewood
Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance 2017/18
http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/#
As I reported last September, Greenland’s ice sheet mass balance had grown at close to record levels for the second year running.
To clarify again, the mass balance calculation accounts for:
1) Snowfall
2) Ice melt
3) Ablation
In other words, it does not include calving.
DMI’s Polar Portal has now published its report for the year. This is the summary:
Whilst NW Europe was enjoying a hot summer, Greenland’s was pretty miserable. This dipole is well known, and is sometimes known as the Atlantic see-saw. Often, when Europe enjoys hot weather, Greenland gets the opposite, and vice versa.
Greenland’s last really mild summer was in 2012, which Brits will not have forgotten was when we had record rainfall!
One statement which stands out is whilst glaciers have continued the development seen during the last six years in which they have more or less maintained their area.
We have been repeatedly told that these glaciers are disappearing quickly, but now we find that they have been stable since that warm summer of 2012.
DMI also add this graph:
DMI do not tell us how much this ice loss is in relative terms, and inevitably the y-axis is presented in true alarmist fashion!
They do admit that satellite monitoring of these 47 glaciers only began in 1999, so we have no way of knowing longer term trends prior to then.
Nevertheless, ice loss at glacier termini has been virtually insignificant in the last six years.
Given the positive surface mass balances seen every year, the ice sheet has almost certainly grown in overall terms since 2012.
The Polar Portal also provides easy to retrieve temperature data for the main sites:
At each station we find that temperatures since 2000 have been very similar to the 1930s and 40s, with the exception of 2012.
But perhaps even more significantly, the 1960s to 1980s were as cold at times as the extraordinarily times of the late 19thC. We must remember that the 19thC is well recognised to be probably the coldest period in Greenland since the end of the ice age.
Why anybody would regard the period 1960-90 as “normal” remains a mystery. Yet that is precisely what the so-called experts maintain.
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March 11, 2019 at 05:03PM
Up to 50 cm (almost two feet) in places.
Norway – 11 MAR 2019 – “Forget spring! Winter is back. Tomorrow comes the snow.”
Now a half meter of snow over southern Norway, announced Håvard Thorset, meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
Much of this will come in the middle of rush hour traffic. The worst will be the southern Norway and the capital.
Eastern Norway and Oslo will get some snow in the afternoon rush hour on Tuesday. The worst is expected Tuesday into Wednesday.
There can be around 20 cm of snow in the capital, says Thorset. It will cause major traffic problems.
https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/glem-varen-na-er-det-varslet-en-halvmeter-sno/70858875
https://dbstatic.no/70858992.jpg?imageId=70858992&width=1024&height=615
It is expected to reach 50 cm (almost 2 ft) of snow during Tuesday in parts of southern Norway. This will lead to difficult driving conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVSTqz_2pLU
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for these links
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March 11, 2019 at 04:34PM
My column at CNSNews.com. State AGs Undermine Themselves on Climate By Steve Milloy CNSNews.com, March 11, 2019 NEW YORK, NY – JULY 26: New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke to protesters in Times Square near a military recruitment center as they show their anger at President Donald Trump’s decision to reinstate a ban on … Continue reading State AGs Undermine Themselves on Climate
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March 11, 2019 at 04:13PM
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