Globaloney Update: A Tale of Two 'Realities'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... from June of 2008 claims that all the ice at the North Pole has melted and will be gone for the first time ever, while the second shows that by January of 2009 the polar ice measurements show that it is the same as it was in 1979, with no ice loss seen at all between then and now. ...

Globaloney Update: A Tale of Two ‘Realities’
Stop The ACLU — ... from June of 2008 claims that all the ice at the North Pole has melted and will be gone for the first time ever, while the second shows that by January of 2009 the polar ice measurements show that it is the same as it was in 1979, with no ice loss seen at all between then and now. The first story was published by the Independent newspaper in England. Written by their “science editor,” Steve Connor, this piece was replete with dire warnings and shocked proclamations of how it all seemed “unthinkable” that all the ice at the North Pole was melted because of globaloney. It ...

"GLOBAL COLDENING" CAUSING EXCESS DEATHS IN WALES
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — COOLING, NOT WARMENING, IS KILLING PEOPLE: FUNERAL directors in Swansea have revealed they are holding more services than usual following a rise in deaths. They say there has been an increase in the death rate and Assembly-based health experts confirmed the freezing temperatures could be responsible. ... Latest provisional figures for winter 2007/08 reveal there were around 1,500 excess deaths in Wales — a seven ...

Brrrr... Sea Ice Ends Year At Same Level As 1979
Gateway Pundit — Well, it doesn't look like this is going to happen... In December the Goracle told a German audience that the North Pole will have a complete meltdown by 2013: Don't think so, Al. Even the global warming religionists at The Huffington Post are jumping ship. Now, we learn that the sea ice ends the year at levels seen 29 years ago. Daily Tech reported: Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at ...

Climate Change: Ebb and Floe
QandO — "This? This is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold." — Chris Knight (Val Kilmer), in Real Genius (1985) Yet another predicted indicator of climate doom bites the dust: Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago. Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but ...

Fish meet barrel
¡No Pasarán! — Is this all conclusive, no: Earlier this year, predictions were rife that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008. Instead, the Arctic ice saw a substantial recovery. Bill Chapman, a researcher with the UIUC's Arctic Center, ...

Y2Kyoto: The First Time In History That Cold Has Ever Frozen Water*
small dead animals — ... When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid. Daily Tech - Jan.1/09; Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or ...

Late Monday links
Maggie's Farm — ... Broadway for 20 bucks. Hope and Change! 600,000 new government jobs. Heck, we all work for the gummint half the year already. Keep a civil tongue in your head for the next 365 days Obama's New Deal. Bad as the Old New Deal? Chavez' secret fan club Sea Ice back to 1979. The earth is cooling, but it doesn't fit the narrative. The funny business, in Minnesota. Related: Stop, thief cries Dick Morris Harry Reid's "worst President," and what he's ...

What Global Warming:  Most Sea Ice on Record
Say Anything — ... Which admittedly only goes back to 1979, but still throw away 30 years of “global warming” misinformation. ...

Has AlGore been to the Artic Circle?
Daily Pundit — Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward is the fastest rate of change on record, either upwards or downwards. The data is being reported by the University of Illinois’s Arctic Climate Research Center, and is derived from satellite observations of the Northern and Southern hemisphere polar regions. More proof of “Global Warming”. Darn climate just won’t do ...

Larywn's Links: Kristallnacht in Antwerp
Doug Ross @ Journal — [image] Kristallnacht in Antwerp : Gateway Pundit Dem governors seek $1 trillion to 'keep afloat' : Politico Someone thaw out Gore: sea ice ends year at '79 levels : DailyTech Then Clintons' Iranian Connection : Forbes Daily Scoreboard : Don Surber The Three-State Option for Middle East Peace : Washington Post (John Bolton) 20 most annoying liberals of 2008 : Right Wing News NBC bans Ann Coulter for life : Gateway Pundit Pelosi plans rules rewrite to suppress GOP dissent : Human Events Iranian student ...

AGW Today: Science? Here’s Your Science
Pirate's Cove — ... Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. ...

AGW Today: Science? Here’s Your Science
Stop The ACLU — Climahysterics constantly scream for facts, proof, science!!!!!! from those of us who do not believe that the warming of the Earth was caused mostly or solely by Man*, yet, rely on proclamations by Al Gore and the bureaucrats at the United Nations for their information. How ’bout this? Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months , global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. Ice levels had been tracking lower throughout much of 2008, but rapidly recovered in the last quarter. In fact, the rate of increase from September onward ...

Odds & Ends
Pundit Review — ... , Mr. Gore has stated, regarding climate change, that “the science is in.” Well, he is absolutely right about that, except for one tiny thing. It is the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of humankind. Also, there is a bull market in sea ice apparently . How inconvenient . But that’s not all, the indespensible ...

Global Warming Update
Stones Cry Out — ... dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer. "From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado. That was then.  This is now. Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, ...

A Non-Melting Arctic Ice Update
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... The Post accompanied this with a photo of melting Artcitc ice over the piece captioned “Disintegration in the Arctic Ocean’s Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.” But the Daily Tech cites new research from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana: ...

Brrrr... Record Snow & Cold Causing Snow Plow Shoot-Outs In Spokane
Gateway Pundit — Record snows are causing snow plow shootings in Spokane, Washington. And sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. Sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. (Cryosphere Today) The snow plow operators in Spokane are not getting a break-- But they are getting shot at! My Way reported: More than 6 feet of snow in the past three weeks has left Spokane residents frustrated. Tempers are ...

Arctic Sea Ice
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Is back to 1979 levels. Funny how that hasn't been front page news. Of course, it's just a snapshot, but whenever the snapshots point to global-warming-catastrophe, it's headline news. ...

Santa is saved! [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom — [image] The Gorical cannot be reached for comment Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew to a close. [...] Earlier this year, predictions were rife that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008 . Instead, the Arctic ice saw a substantial recovery. Bill Chapman, a researcher with the UIUC’s Arctic Center, tells DailyTech this was due in part to colder temperatures in the region. Chapman says wind patterns have also been weaker this year. Strong winds can slow ice formation as well as ...

WHICH, AS I RECALL, WAS KIND OF A CHILLY YEAR: Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979….
Instapundit — WHICH, AS I RECALL, WAS KIND OF A CHILLY YEAR: Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979.

Did Al Gore ground his private jet?
PoliPundit.com — Advertise here Monday, January 12th, 2009 Did Al Gore ground his private jet? Sea Ice ends year at same level as 1979. -- W.C. Varones Posted at 11:17 pm Link to this post | Comments (25)

About that Arctic Ice
QandO — For those of you living in sea level areas who expected to be up to your armpits in seawater because of the great Arctic icemelt predicted by the AGW crowd, relax: ...

Brrrr... Goofy Hillary Says "Global Warming May Incite New Wars"
Gateway Pundit — Brrrr... Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. A rare 50 year arctic blast is cooling the west coast. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for ...

Copernicus, Einstein, Newton and Gore
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow - MIT & Northwestern U. Study find: Climate Change Wouldn't hurt America's Economy - NCDC: the U.S. cool down by 0.49 °F per decade - 2008 will be coolest year of the decade globally! - Falsifying the Global Warming Hypothesis The global tropical cyclone season of 2008: below average - Canada's forests, once huge help on greenhouse gases, now contribute to climate change - Global Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979 - Claim: 'Right-wing propaganda machine' winning ...

Record Freeze Means Only One Thing... Dems Push Ahead With Global Warming Legislation
Gateway Pundit — There's record cold in Flint... Record snow in Chicago... Chill Map via Drudge Brrrr... Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. A rare 50 year arctic blast ...

Back to the Future/That ’70s Show
Brain-Terminal.com — ... data, global warming has been re-branded as “climate change.” That way, any time there’s a change in temperature, they can claim it as evidence supporting their beliefs. (Of course, since the dawn of Earth’s history, continual change has been the only constant with respect to the climate. So, by definition, anyone predicting the climate will change is always going to be proven correct eventually.) Now it turns out that sea ice levels have risen to the highest point since 1979, after one of the coolest years in ...

It Seemed Like a Good Idea At The Time…
No Runny Eggs — ... Hansen’s big concern this time?  The ice caps are melting even faster than we thought which will make the seas rise even higher than we thought and we don’t have any more time to wait!!!!!!  Geez, does this guy ever peruse the internet?  ...

Brrrr... "Shivering" Al Gore Gets Put on Ice
Gateway Pundit — ... Compeau put a "shivering" Al Gore on a 5 ton block of ice. Compeau, who manages an outdoor recreation sporting goods store, is coupling the unveiling with a fundraiser to benefit the Presbyterian Hospitality House, a local nonprofit. Anyone — skeptic or not — can play by guessing whether this winter will be warmer or colder, and by how much, than was the winter of 1947-1948. Gore was born on March 31, 1948 -The Newsminer. Poor Al Gore. Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

Climate: Change You Can't Believe In
American Thinker — ... number of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) dissenting international scientists, many rising from within the alarmists' own ranks, has thoroughly shredded the misleading fallacy of "consensus." And a full decade sans warming and concluding with pronounced cooling despite ever-rising atmospheric CO 2 levels has left Green House Gas (GHG) force-feeders with frosty egg on their faces. Remember the sea ice that doomsters warned would soon be gone? It's now at the very same level it was in 1979. And the sea level rise of 3.1 mm/year the IPCC declared took place between 1993 ...

Brrrr... Snow Falls in UAE For 2nd Time In Recorded History
Gateway Pundit — ... no word for it. Certainly, this can all be explained by global climate change due to man(?) In related news, Power Line reported that recent scientific work has thoroughly debunked the Mann "hockey stick" global warming analysis cited by Al Gore in his junk science documentary. Andrew Bostom has more on the debunking. Now remember... Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

Brrrr... Al Gore Braves Snow & Ice Storms to Testify to Congress on Global Warming
Gateway Pundit — ... out for man bear pig. Former Vice President Al Gore testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on global climate change. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) The NASA supervisor of James Hansen, Gore's fellow global warming alarmist, says Hansen is just fear mongering. Now remember... Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans ...

Please Stop Non-Existent Global Warming Or Apes Will Hang Themselves
Gateway Pundit — ... today's gut buster: Via Power Line Forum. Oh, boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. 90% of the US is on freeze alert tonight, including parts of Florida. At least 55 people were killed in ice storms that hit last week. Hundreds of thousands are still without power. Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been ...

Obama Administration Announces They Will Punish Oil Companies For Non-Existent Global Warming
Gateway Pundit — Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years. And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, ...

Brrrr... Another Rare Occurence-- Great Lakes Freeze Up Again
Gateway Pundit — Island Turtle reported that 3 of the 5 Great Lakes once again froze solid this year: Natice.NOAA.gov Natice.NOAA.gov The freezing of the Great Lakes happens about once a decade. The last time was in 2003 and before that 1994, according to Ice Service records, and it was 1982 before that. It looks like we are starting to see a pattern here: Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans ...

Goracle Lashes Out at Critics-- Refuses to Debate Junk Science (Video)
Gateway Pundit — Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years. And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, ...

Goracle Dodges Czech President Klaus at Climate Conference
Gateway Pundit — Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years. And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, ...

AGW Today: Life Threatening Cold, End Global Warming!
Pirate's Cove — ... So, it’s really, really, really cold, the kind of cold that risks lives. They are traveling over the ice all the way to the North Pole to measure the supposed melting ice, which they happen to be traveling across. Did I mention that they are traveling across the ice that is supposedly melting at an unprecedented rate, while it is really, really, really cold? I’m going to steal some material from Gateway Pundit Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been ...

AGW Today: Life Threatening Cold, End Global Warming!
Stop The ACLU — ... lead to a dramatic shift in average global temperatures. So, it’s really, really, really cold, the kind of cold that risks lives. They are traveling over the ice all the way to the North Pole to measure the supposed melting ice, which they happen to be traveling across. Did I mention that they are traveling across the ice that is supposedly melting at an unprecedented rate, while it is really, really, really cold? I’m going to steal some material from Gateway Pundit Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been ...

AGW Today: Come On, There’s Not Really Warming, Is There?
Pirate's Cove — ... offered as proof of anthropogenic greenhouse warming. The U. S. Dept. of Energy (www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/carbon.html) offers some facts about CO2 emissions in this country: in 1995 they totaled 5,348.4 metric tons, rising 16 percent to 6021.8 metric tons in 2007. If the alarmists are right, one would expect a corresponding increase in earth’s temperature in 12 years. It has not happened. Yeah, what happened to that continued warming? Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

AGW Today: Come On, There’s Not Really Warming, Is There?
Stop The ACLU — ... dioxide increases have long been offered as proof of anthropogenic greenhouse warming. The U. S. Dept. of Energy (www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/carbon.html) offers some facts about CO2 emissions in this country: in 1995 they totaled 5,348.4 metric tons, rising 16 percent to 6021.8 metric tons in 2007. If the alarmists are right, one would expect a corresponding increase in earth’s temperature in 12 years. It has not happened. Yeah, what happened to that continued warming? Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

Climahysteric Today: Know What Else AGW Causes? More AGW!
Pirate's Cove — ... The Nobel-winning IPCC issued a report over a year ago based on data from 2000 to 2007. The critical report suggested that changes to the planet are continuing at a high rate of drought, more intense storms, and rising sea levels. Scientists fear that if global warming is not slowed, changes could spin out of control and might become irreversible. So, if CO2 is increasing far more rapidly then expected, then perhaps they could explain Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

Climahysteric Today: Know What Else AGW Causes? More AGW!
Stop The ACLU — ... Change (IPCC) report, said in a statement. The Nobel-winning IPCC issued a report over a year ago based on data from 2000 to 2007. The critical report suggested that changes to the planet are continuing at a high rate of drought, more intense storms, and rising sea levels. Scientists fear that if global warming is not slowed, changes could spin out of control and might become irreversible. So, if CO2 is increasing far more rapidly then expected, then perhaps they could explain Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

UN & Team Obama Will Reorder World Economy With New Global Warming Junk Science Rules
Gateway Pundit — Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years. And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, ...

Moonbats Design Life Vest for Polar Bears
Moonbattery — Despite cooling temperatures, thickening ice, and increasing polar bear populations in our reality, in the Twilight Zone inhabited by moonbats, the semi-aquatic man-eating beasts known as Ursus maritimus (bear of the sea) continue to be menaced by melting ice that might drop them in the drink. See for yourself: ...

Oh, Snap! AGW Legislation To Create More “Victims”
Pirate's Cove — ... The full story can be read at the Washington Times. Guess who wins? Lawyers and lobbyists “Perhaps a more accurate title of the bill would be ‘The Lawyer Full-Employment and As-Seen-on-TV Global Warming Act of 2009,’ ” said Larry Neal, deputy Republican staff director for the House committee. Guess whose money the federal government will be paying out? All for something that is primarily natural, and Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans ...

At Last Minute... Dems Refuse to Allow Global Warming Skeptic to Testify Alongside Al Gore In Congress Today
Gateway Pundit — More Hope and Change... Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Antarctic sea ice is growing, not shrinking. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the ...

Hillary Says US Ready To Lead On Ruining Economies For Fake Issue
Pirate's Cove — ... horse go? Maybe Hillary should talk to her boss about the CO2 output from his plane while doing photo-ops. An average 747 flight from D.C. to NY roundtrip puts out around 236kg of CO2 per passenger. Of course, we do not know who were the passengers on the flight. Yet. And, Obama plans on a quick flight to St. Louis for a photo-op and town hall on his 100th day. Guess reducing CO2 output is only for the average American, not our “royalty.” Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

Hillary Says US Ready To Lead On Ruining Economies For Fake Issue
Stop The ACLU — ... . How does that saying about the cart and the horse go? Maybe Hillary should talk to her boss about the CO2 output from his plane while doing photo-ops. An average 747 flight from D.C. to NY roundtrip puts out around 236kg of CO2 per passenger. Of course, we do not know who were the passengers on the flight. Yet. Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The ...

Loopy Energy Secretary Chu Warns World Is at a Tipping Point On Climate Change
Gateway Pundit — Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years. And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, ...

Brrrr... Rep. Broun Gets Cold Shoulder After Confronting Global Warming Hoaxers on House Floor (Video)
Gateway Pundit — Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979. The oceans have been cooling since 2003. Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record. Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years. And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, ...