Waiting for a turn of EDEE

Oh dear, another epic fail.

The alarmists have been none too pleased that Al Gore made a complete arse of himself with the failure of his apocalyptic predictions concerning Arctic ice. Scrambling to explain away the survival of the previously doomed polar bear, all manner of weird explanations have come forth (my favourite is that the oceans stole the global warming), in fact everything except the obvious: there is no global warming, or even, the global warming is less than predicted. Now over 100 failed climate models and the alarmists won't budge, not even an inch (or should I say, a degree) which is funny because this intransigence is the definition of a fanatic and not a scientist.

Every alarmist likes publicity, and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) decided to use 2007 to predict the melting of antarctic ice by global warming along with the demise of - you guessed it - the penguin. In December 2007 the WWF predicted: "Global warming is threatening one of the most endearing symbols of Antarctica - the penguin. Four species of penguin are facing a dual threat from loss of nesting sites and a shortage of food. The environmental conservation group WWF is warning that rising temperatures and the resulting loss of sea ice is robbing the emblematic birds of the nesting grounds they need to breed successfully".

And it was not just the WWF. I found this August 2007 headline from National Wildlife - "The Shrinking World of Penguins". Note the prediction - the antarctic ice would melt beneath the penguins' feet.

And what happened?

There I am over the weekend waiting for a turn of EDEE from my slow comrades (Python is slow because he is losing, Thygs is slow ... well he is just slow) and the 2014 headline comes in: "Extent of Antarctic sea ice reaches record levels, scientists say".

Even the pro climate alarmist ABC had reported:

"Antarctic scientists have declared a new record has been set for the extent of Antarctic sea ice since records began. Satellite imagery reveals an area of about 20 million square kilometres covered by sea ice around the Antarctic continent. Jan Lieser from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) said the discovery was made two days ago. This is an area covered by sea ice which we've never seen from space before, he said.

"Thirty-five years ago the first satellites went up which were reliably telling us what area, two dimensional area, of sea ice was covered and we've never seen that before, that much area. That is roughly double the size of the Antarctic continent and about three times the size of Australia".

Before Python races to the Lord Monckton card and makes an accusation of selective data, the antarctic ice has been measured over the last 35 years, basically since the beginning of satellite data. ‘NASA’s satellites have now been measuring global temperatures for a full 35 years (420 months through November 2013), including the Antarctic. The above chart documents the measured southern polar region temperatures. As can be seen, there has been a cooling trend – granted, a very tiny -0.04°C/century, but it remains far removed from the IPCC’s unicorn science of “amplified” and dangerous polar warming. And not only has it not warmed, the Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record amount.’

No doubt the fanatics will start rolling the 'warming dice' and we will get 50 different theories as to why there is still global warming even though the Antarctic ice has not melted. I predict that there will be a theory that global warming has actually caused the Antarctic ice to grow. Of course none of these new 'theories' will explain the C02 relationship in the above diagram. Even if there is climate change, it aint caused by man and his evil Co2.

Another failure for the alarmists and yet more exposure of the greatest fraud of this century.

[Please note that no nazis were used in the making of this post].

Comments

[PythonMagus]

Point taken. The infringing reference has been removed. I want one reference per blog. It makes them more entertaining.

[Paul]

And the reference ... "Another time I had to listen to 50 minutes of Paul Reiter whinge about climate scientists commenting..." sounds a tad like a climate change reference. That is two. And two is enough. That is one of the additional the breaches I was referring to, and the reason why my brilliant post has highlighted how easy it is to breach the treaty. I repeat: NEW RULE: No references to the climate change debate whatsoever apart from one post per month. Whatsoever. WHATSOEVER.

[PythonMagus]

The only reference in "Ten Pictures are Worth A Thousand Words" is "equivalent to the proportion of peer review publications that suggest that Anthopogenic Climate Change is a myth". Exactly one, cleverly placed as a reference to pecentages. I like that rule; I think it should stand. So please change this post to have just one reference - you may leave the pictures - or embargo it for 1 October.

[Paul]

Rubbish. I counted 7 references at least in the "Ten Pictures" post, which post was entirely a climate change post. NEW RULE: No references to the climate change debate whatsoever apart from one post per month. Whatsoever.

[PythonMagus]

Both those posts comply with the permit to have a single Climate Change statement in a non climate change post. Be clever, or embargo this post to 1 October.

[Paul]

This was an EDEE post in the same spirit in which your "But what does it mean" post was a Star Wars post. And your "Ten pictures are worth 10,0000 words" was a Web/Blog post. Perhaps now you will stick to the treaty.

[PythonMagus]

Please remove. This is in breach of our treaty.