Entire Arctic Ocean melted as early as August 8th, this year! « Climate Sanity

Veli Albert Kallio, described by the UK Independent as a “leading ice expert”, has informed me (see his comment here) that at the current melt rate all Arctic sea ice “would melt away by 8th August.”

MUST LISTEN: Solar Scientists Say Sun Behaving Strangely: NPR Radio Interview with David Hathaway and Ira Flatow | Solar Cycle 25

The sun has cycles -- periods of high activity, when it has a lot of sunspots, and low activity, when things on the surface seem calm. NASA astronomer David Hathaway says activity is unusually low right now. A new solar observatory may shine light on the mystery.

Snow. In July. In New Hampshire « Musings from the Chiefio

Not entirely unusual, but also not in alignment with an unusual warming…

The simple facts on the ground (cold white facts) are that the world is either:

a) Normal. Nothing out of the ordinary going on.
or
b) Getting colder at a rather surprising rate.

The facts are not consistent with the notion of a warmest ever anything …