Must See Video on Arctic Sea Ice

Dan Satterfield has posted an eye popping video over at his blog "Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal" at the very interesting website hosted by the American Geophysical Union.


This video was put together by Peter Sinclair and collected a great deal of important information into it's six and half minutes.  I know that like anyone speaking out on the matter of what we are doing to our planet, Peter get's attack and relentlessly denigrated by the so-called "skeptical" community.  However the facts speak for themselves.

30 SEPTEMBER 2012

Must See Video on Arctic Sea Ice

Posted by Dan Satterfield

http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2012/09/30/must-see-video-on-arctic-sea-ice/

An Essay Concerning Our Global Heat {Distribution} Engine

I read Gail’s {Gail Binkly, editor of the Four Corners Free Press} excellent articles on climate change with much interest; particularly “Locals’ views differ on warming theory,” where the opinions were truly saddening.

Quotes such as: “It’s climate change, but I’m not sure it’s man-made” - “It may not be something we’re causing” - “may be part of a cycle that may have come along regardless” - reveal a sad lack of basic understanding regarding our planet’s physical situation. We as a society must become clear that the physical dynamics at work in this global warming thing are indeed well understood by those who study climate.

 Please consider our planet for a moment,

Millennial Cooling in Context, Esper et al. (2012), an appraisal

Once again I'm in a period when I can't make the time for this hobby of mine.  However, there is a new article out at Skeptical Science that examines the extreme claims of the latest contrarian-skeptics favorite.  Considering how it's getting wallpapered all over the Echo-chamber, I feel it is only proper that Dana's review deserves being duplicated.

Once again my deepest thanks to Dana Nuccitelli and SkepticalScience.com for making it possible to repost their articles:

Esper Millennial Cooling in Context (via Skeptical Science)

Posted on 21 July 2012 by dana1981 A new paper in Nature Climate Change from Esper et al. (2012) develops a 2,000-year local summer temperature reconstruction based on 587 high-precision maximum latewood density (MXD) tree ring series from northern Scandinavia, using living and subfossil pine trees…

Why must AGW-skeptics resort to attacking the messenger?

I've been noticing the contrarian-skeptical community becoming more intense with their rejection of climatological knowledge but, rather than focusing on the science, they are increasing their personal attacks on scientists and people who attempt teaching about the seriousness of our situation. 

It seems that the more Earth Observation evidence makes the situation patently clear, and the weaker AGW skeptic's scientific grounding becomes the more they ramp up their emotionalizing.  Dr. Ivar Giaever's speech before the Lindau group being an excellent recent example.

It's a pretty cowardly way out for folks who refuse to consider their own prejudices,
or to reconsider assumption and their own personal reasons for clinging to those assumptions.

To do some actual soul searching, to understand yourself why you're thinking as you are.  And to ask if that old attitude makes anymore sense.


There are no new climatological secrets that can overwhelm the known physics and observations. You can argue about the fine points of models, and observational data processing all you want, but it's bull-poop, if all you want to do is delay acting!  It makes as much sense as focusing on worrying about that knife coming at you: if it's 7 inches or 7.33 inches long - one has got to act.

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Here, within the reading of these two links any thinking person with intellectual integrity can learn enough to realize continuing willfully ignoring the evidence is no longer a reasonable option:

Watch the past 800,000 years unfold in this 3:15 minute video.  Just you and the graphic representation of the atmospheric GHG levels, stick it out, the last minute is worth the wait.

Time history of atmospheric carbon dioxide from 800,000 years ago until January, 2009.

 and

New NOAA-led report examines climate conditions experienced around the world

July 10, 2012

Highlights:

• Warm temperature trends continue: Four independent datasets show 2011 among the 15 warmest since records began in the late 19th century, with annually-averaged temperatures above the 1981–2010 average, but coolest on record since 2008. The Arctic continued to warm at about twice the rate compared with lower latitudes. On the opposite pole, the South Pole station recorded its all-time highest temperature of 9.9°F on December 25, breaking the previous record by more than 2 degrees.
  
  
• Greenhouse gases climb: Major greenhouse gas concentrations, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, continued to rise. Carbon dioxide steadily increased in 2011 and the yearly global average exceeded 390 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since instrumental records began. This represents an increase of 2.10 ppm compared with the previous year. There is no evidence that natural emissions of methane in the Arctic have increased significantly during the last decade.
  
  
• Arctic sea ice extent decreases: Arctic sea ice extent was below average for all of 2011 and has been since June 2001, a span of 127 consecutive months through December 2011. Both the maximum ice extent (5.65 million square miles, March 7) and minimum extent (1.67 million square miles, September 9) were the second smallest of the satellite era.
  
  
• Ozone levels in Arctic drop: In the upper atmosphere, temperatures in the tropical stratosphere were higher than average while temperatures in the polar stratosphere were lower than average during the early 2011 winter months. This led to the lowest ozone concentrations in the lower Arctic stratosphere since records began in 1979 with more than 80 percent of the ozone between 11 and 12 miles altitude destroyed by late March, increasing UV radiation levels at the surface. 

• Sea surface temperature & ocean heat content rise: Even with La Niña conditions occurring during most of the year, the 2011 global sea surface temperature was among the 12 highest years on record. Ocean heat content, measured from the surface to 2,300 feet deep, continued to rise since records began in 1993 and was record high.
  
  
• Ocean salinity trends continue: Continuing a trend that began in 2004 and similar to 2010, oceans were saltier than average in areas of high evaporation, including the western and central tropical Pacific, and fresher than average in areas of high precipitation, including the eastern tropical South Pacific, suggesting that precipitation is increasing in already rainy areas and evaporation is intensifying in drier locations.

NOAA's State of the Climate in 2011 report was published today by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. For more, visit NOAA's State of the Climate 2011 webpage

Download here. (Credit: NOAA). 

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Watching the Deniers: Evidence Library for Strategic Denial Documents

There's an interesting blog that originates out of Australian Watching the Deniers he's a kindred spirit in that he's not a climatologist, nor science journalist.  He's just another science loving intelligent citizen, a rational-skeptic, who is fed up with the obvious misrepresentation and lies and slander that has become part and parcel of the Denial Echo-Chamber.


His blog is filled with excellent articles and references to real science.  The reason I'm mentioning his site now is that I noticed he's developing a feature:

Evidence Library of Strategy Documents

"Documents from key members of the denial movement that detail their strategies and how they try to mislead."

http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/the-damning-evidence/

There you'll find documentation that explains what's really behind Global Climate Change denial.

WattsUpWithThat... Censorship over at Watts'

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Wattsupwiththat.com has a very rigorous, if one sided, comments policy.

Those of us who have tried to present the rational scientific side of the AGW discussion over at Anthony Watts' website, know from first hand experience how freely they cleanse opposing commentary.  In fact, it's the main reason I resorted to putting together my modest WhatsUpWithThatWatts.blogspot.com website in the first place.


In my last post over at WUWTW.blogspot I was able to show an example of this censoring of information that by all rights deserves to be posted in a forum that boasts an interest in understanding the science behind our planet's Anthropogenic Global Warming situation.  {Well at least if it's an intellectually sincere boast}

I agree with this comment I received:

Anonymous  ~  June 21, 2012 7:08 AM

I know it can be a chore, but it may be of some value to those of us who follow WUWT that, if whenever you post a comment that you suspect will be suppressed, if you grab a screenshot and then upload it at a site like this. I'd enjoy saying I found it and ask why it was not posted.

So much so that,
I send out this invitation to all who feel WUWT has unfairly censored legitimate rational comments.  Send it to me and I will post your comments here.


It would be helpful to have the WUWT thread title along with the approximate time/date of your attempted post included.  Along with any background information and/or links you feel are appropriate.

Please send your contributions to citizenschallenge@gmail.com -
Since I tend to skim through the mail box and ignore most of it,
including "WUWT SUPPRESSION" in the subject line will guarantee my attention,
I'll acknowledge receipt and post it as soon as possible.

Cascading Consequences... AGW educational links

The following is from a post over at SkepticsForum in reply to a silly challenge:  

Contrarian Skeptic:  "Cascading global climate change effect is an assumption you're making."

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CC: A quick thought about those cascading consequences:

Salting of our atmosphere with GHGs induces a warming; which leads to more water in the atmosphere which leads to more energy and moisture (and more warming) in the system; which leads to greater torrential rainfall events, which leads to floods which leads to damage, loss, death and misery.

Early unseasonal warm spells, fooling plants into sprouting, late season freeze kills, young buds and flowers and future fruit;... or the timing between unseasonable early blooming and pollinators being out of sync, bad for bounty.

North Pole ice cap disappearing; ocean soaking up all that sunlight/energy; massive unprecedented evaporation impacts atmospheric circulation patterns and the jet stream, leading to all sorts of cascading consequences, for lower latitude regions.

That's just scratching the surface
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Get an education!

http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-fingerprint-in-global-warming.html
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Europe Hammered by Winter, Is North America Next?
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/16feb_deepfreeze/
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New fresh water in Arctic could shift Gulf Stream
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-fresh-arctic-shift-gulf-stream.html
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Changing Jet Streams May Alter Paths of Storms and Hurricanes, April 17, 2008
http://carnegiescience.edu/news/changing_jet_streams_may_alter_paths_storms_and_hurricanes
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Global Winds Could Explain Record Rains, Tornadoes
ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2011) —
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111205170101.htm
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Linking Weird Weather to Rapid Warming of the Arctic 
5 Mar 2012: Analysis

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/linking_weird_weather_to_rapid_warming_of_the_arctic/2501/
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Arctic Warming is Altering Weather Patterns, Study Shows
April 3rd, 2012   By Andrew Freedman
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-warming-is-altering-weather-patterns-study-shows/
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Also see http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
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BBC Horizon - Global Weirding (2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7WOQde7fI&feature=related

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Since I'm at it, I may as well add this other list of informative AGW education links:

What is the full picture? Humans are emitting around 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air every year. This is leaving a distinct human fingerprint:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-fingerprint-in-global-warming.html
    •    From space and the Earth’s surface, we see more heat being trapped by carbon dioxide
    •    Nights are warming faster than days
http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect.htm
    •    The upper atmosphere is cooling while the lower atmosphere is warming
http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-fingerprint-in-global-warming.html#stratosphere

Signs of warming are found all over the globe (here are just a few):
http://www.skepticalscience.com/evidence-for-global-warming.htm

    •    Ice sheets are melting
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Accelerating-ice-loss-from-Antarctica-and-Greenland.html
    •    Sea levels are rising
http://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise.htm
    •    Biological changes in tens of thousands of species
http://www.skepticalscience.com/evidence-for-global-warming.htm#biological
    •    Glaciers are retreating
http://www.skepticalscience.com/himalayan-glaciers-growing.htm
    •    Seasons are shifting
http://www.skepticalscience.com/advancing-spring-global-warming.htm
    •    Species are becoming extinct
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Species-extinctions-happening-before-our-eyes.html