THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Remember the scary "single most-important finding in climate science last year": "a sharp decline" in phytoplankton? Nevermind

The MSM was awash with alarmist reports last year that global warming had caused "a sharp drop" in ocean phytoplankton since the 1950's, with one newspaper stating "the single most-important finding in climate science last year was a 40 percent decline in the ocean's phytoplankton caused by global warming." A new paper published in Nature finds that multiple data sets instead show an increase in ocean phytoplankton over the past eight decades. Don't hold your breath for any retractions of the alarmist claims in the MSM, nor any stories reporting the good news.

Antarctica Gains Ice From The Bottom Up | The Resilient Earth

These new findings indicate that water from areas of basal melting actually migrate to areas of basal freezing, something not accounted for by current ice sheet models. To scientists' surprise, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is getting thicker from the bottom up.

Salt Lake City man among skiers found dead after weeklong search | The Salt Lake Tribune

Walker Pannell Kuhl, of Salt Lake, and Gregory Seftick, of Columbia Falls, Mont., were buried under 13 feet of snow in Garnet Canyon, said park spokeswoman Jackie Skaggs.
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An April 16 storm brought heavy, wet snow to an area that had already seen record snowfall, officials said. Search efforts had to be suspended last Thursday and Friday because of a storm that brought 3 feet of new snow and reduced visibility to almost none.