September Swing | Musings from the Chiefio

Looks to me like “Global Warming” has done exactly and essentially nothing. It also looks like the local temperatures are strongly driven by the offshore water temperature (that has not risen) and clouds (that are a bit more this year) with CO2 having no visible effect at all; certainly not able to hold in any excess heating via ‘back radiation’ over the night. If it can’t do it for even 8 hours, how can it have any effect over decades?

It also looks like making an average of Min / Max and ignoring clouds just gives you a giant confounder from clouds as to what that average means. Ignoring the cloud percentage while making a Min / Max average is just rampant stupidity. Yet “that’s what they do”…

So, IMHO, it all comes down to clouds, sun, and winds. All things the climate model folks admit they handle badly and / or don’t handle at all. But they assert that if they average together what they do have it means something. Yeah, like that’s gonna happen…

Energy Tribune- Arctic Sea Ice Record Low Is “Broken”

...The very strong winds associated with the storm produce large waves that broke up the ice. So as it turns out it wasn’t global warming that decreased the ice to “record” levels, it was a powerful storm. It is unlikely the media outlets will report this important detail.

Hysteria over man made global warming has clouded our view of what nature has been doing all along, causing cyclic warming and cooling in the Arctic and across the globe. A more reasoned historical perspective shows that the warming in the Arctic today is very similar to the warming there in the 1920s and 30s. We live in a world of rapidly changing communications technologies. Once dominant media outlets are shrinking, seeing reduced income and are trying to figure out how to survive. In this rapidly changing world of communications a reasoned, historical approach to understand our changing climate doesn’t get as much attention as yelling fire in a crowded room.  [Via Climate Realists]

Veteran German Journalist Calls Claims Of “Unprecedented” Arctic Ice Melt “Gross Nonsense”

Thankfully, however, there are still a few sane journalists left among us. Kulke is among that very small group and reminds us: “Is the ice melt at the North Pole really unprecendented? There are indications that show otherwise.”

Kulke labels claims of Arctic ice melt reaching “unprecedented” levels “gross nonsense” and reminds us that “during changeovers between warm and cold periods there have been already completely ice-free Arctics on multiple occasions.”

Kulke also quotes Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) physicist Rüdiger Gerdes (in Bremerhaven, Germany) who says the high Arctic temperatures are not only because of man-made greenhouse gases, but also because of natural periodic fluctuations with a rhythm of 60 to 70 years.