1819 Northwest Passage | Real Science

The ice was no different 190 years ago than it is today.

Doctors Explain Why People Move From Arizona To Winnipeg When They Retire | Real Science

Warm weather is very difficult for the elderly, who often suffer breathing problems. That is why they are all moving to Winnipeg to experience the joy of cold air.

Hawaii Is The Healthiest State | Real Science

Doctors tell us that warm temperatures are unhealthy, which is why people are so healthy in the the cold climate of Hawaii.

U.N. aviation body hit by carbon emission dispute | JunkScience.com

The question of what role developing countries should play in reducing carbon emissions threatened to derail discussions at a top-level meeting of the United Nations body that oversees civil aviation, according to one official who attended Wednesday’s meeting.

Breaking News : Cook Admits That Surface Temperatures Have Stopped Warming | Real Science

This is classic. Cook tacitly admits that surface temperatures have stopped warming, and then finds the missing heat.

That 97% number seems to be an intrinsic number for alarmists, who pull it out every time they realize they are getting their ass kicked by reality.

Game Over For Arctic Alarmism | Real Science

In 1906, Peary sailed to 83N – at a location which now has 4 metre thick ice.

Bummer for caribou: Carbon dioxide is allegedly making the Arctic snowier and icier (except it's allegedly less icy in places where ice is desirable)

A Troubling Decline in the Caribou Herds of the Arctic by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360

Peary caribou have been particularly hard hit by weather-related events. Back in 1961, when the first aerial survey of the Arctic islands was done, biologists estimated Peary caribou numbers to be 24,000. Since then, at least two catastrophic freeze-ups that were caused by early fall ice storms and rains and early, short-lived spring thaws resulted in more than 90 percent of the animals starving to death because they could not punch through the ice to get to food. Peary caribou populations have fallen today to about 2,000 animals. Scientists in the far-northern Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard told me earlier this spring that they are seeing the same kind of icing take a toll on reindeer in that region.

While there is evidence to suggest that these severe icings have happened in the past, there are also signs that they are likely to occur more often in the future. In recent decades, the Arctic has been heating up twice as fast as the rest of the northern hemisphere — with temperatures routinely rising by 4 to 5 degrees F — making fall rains, early thaws, and severe icing events increasingly common.

Both caribou and reindeer are better adapted to cold than they are to warmer, moister weather. In cold, dry winters there is less snow to slow them down and sap their energy while they’re on the move or being chased by wolves. Less snow, especially if it is not icy and hard-packed, also makes it easier for them to dig down to the vegetation they need in order to get them through to the summer months.
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Komi reindeer herders along the Kola Peninsula in Arctic Russia are already complaining that their animals are losing 20 percent of their weight by the time they take them to slaughter. Not only is heavy snow making it more difficult to move the animals, warmer temperatures are delaying the winter round-up by up to two months because the lakes the herders need to cross are not freezing over as fast as they once did.

The Catlin warmists think that we're stupid

[March 25, 2010: They want us to think that carbon dioxide caused the "recently refrozen open water" that they've seen] 

“The conditions we’re experiencing are unlike anything I’ve seen in any of the nineteen expeditions I’ve previously been on,” says Martin Hartley. “There are great swathes of only recently refrozen open water peppered with small snow-covered islands of ice in the distance. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come for Arctic travel?”

The open water is revealed when fields of the floating ice break apart due to underlying ocean currents and pressure exerted on it by winds or tides.

[But there's a problem: They've just spent the whole trip complaining about the intense cold, such as this March 22, 2010 entry]

A massive weather event forced the Ice Base to go into lockdown mode for two days this weekend. Starting on Friday evening, the team experienced gusting winds of up to 60mph and temperatures of -45 C, giving an effective ‘feels like’ temperature of -75 C.

[Flashback: If SUVs caused the open leads in 2006, what caused the open leads in 1909?]

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

The Ice Warrior Has a Detailed Plan | Sterling Performance | BNET

McNeill has already attempted to reach the centre of the Arctic Ocean in 2006. This attempt ended after, due to unseasonal conditions, he slipped into the water, which is so cold it would only take around 20 minutes to kill him. He pulled himself out of the water, but it was plain the conditions, brought on by climate change, were too dangerous to continue.

[If SUVs caused the open leads in 2006, what caused the open leads in 1909?]

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

Global Warming 101 - Upcoming Cap and Trade [Scam] Summit

What: Cap and Trade Summit
When: May 28, 2009
Where: The University Club, Chicago IL

Will Business, Science, and Policy Collide or Converge?

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Sponsored by The Environmental Change Institute (ECI), at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Will Steger Foundation, and CP Holdings, LLC, a leader in greenhouse gas management services, these organizations bring you a carbon conference to generate new perspectives on the components of an effective cap and trade system, one that works across all dimensions of society to generate the intended results.

Yet another alarmist Arctic trip: Peary Centennial Expedition

2. Secondly, the expedition will develop the 'Cool - Not Cool' campaign. We will illustrate via images the link between global warming, excesses in the lifestyles of developed countries and poor energy policies. The 'Cool - Not Cool' campaign will be integrated into the expedition websites, e-newsletters and pre- and post-expedition multimedia presentations.

Warming worriers burn with indignation | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

However, while the world embraced the third annual Earth Hour, only 500 Victorian businesses signed up to last night’s event online, a third of last year’s total. Australia-wide, there were 2,500 businesses against last year’s 7230. Apathy, financial woes and the whine of the Grand Prix were among reasons cited by Melburnians for staying alight amid so much darkness.

...But global warming is one of those holy causes in which journalists may freely lie, and indeed must and do. Do you really think 1 billion people, or more than one in seven people around the world, from the villages of Uttar Pradesh to the working-class suburbs of China, turned off their lights for an hour. Could that figure be even remotely true?

Markey Malarkey - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

These days, snake oil salesmen aren’t selling their wares at carnivals — but in broad daylight in major newspapers.

On the Arctic alarmists - Unclear on the concept: More about the brutal cold and the importance of fossil fuel

...they work through the tough periods by thinking about various short and long term goals (from their next hot [fossil-fueled] meal, to the promise of better [ie warmer] weather).
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For example, all explorers find it extremely frustrating to be stuck in a tent due to bad weather, consuming precious [fossil] fuel and food while the drift of the ice is taking them backwards every second! (‘Two steps forward, one step back’, March 18th).
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Fear may also be an acute state, when there is anticipation of a potentially negative outcome occurring. Imagine seeing polar bear tracks (‘we are not alone’ – March 13th), being woken up by the sound of the ice smashing around your tent in the middle of the night (‘fractures’ - March 3rd), or waiting in a tent in terrible conditions while your food runs out (‘resupply’ – March 19th). If fear of pain is something which might concern you, imagine being in Martin’s shoes (quite literally) in those moments every morning when he knows he needs to pull on his boots over his frostbitten toes. As he commented in his BBC news blog, “it is the worst part of his day” and his anguish is clear to be seen.
... consider that Martin has reflected that his biggest fear is falling though the ice and having to swim across black inky stretches of freezing, polar bear ‘infested’ water...

The right to be cold?: F is for Frostbite

Early explorers to the Poles suffered greatly from frostbite because they did not know how to protect themselves from icy winds and harsh conditions. In1898, when Robert Peary made various attempts to reach the North Pole – he lost eight toes to frostbite on one journey! The toes came off his feet when his boots were taken off back at base after one particular expedition…not a pleasant experience. Nevertheless, this situation didn’t stop Peary! He said: `A few toes were not much to give to achieve the Pole’.

BBC NEWS - Arctic explorer in Thames trial

"I have been exploring the Arctic for 25 years and in this time I've seen the dramatic effects of global warming," Mr McNeill said.

"It used to be one solid sheet of ice that you could walk across.

"Now it's interspersed with stretches of icy water - if you look at it from satellite images it's like crazy paving, hence the need to build the Qajaq."

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation

...in this century, major PDO eras have persisted for 20 to 30 years...

2007: Jeremy Clarkson's drive to the north pole

I recently watched the 'Top Gear' special - where Jeremy and James May drove a specially modified Toyota Hilux pick-up to the magnetic North Pole from Canada's resolute bay!
That feat in itself is unbelievable, as it has never been done before: but what makes it so astonishing is that Jeremy and James managed to do it with a certain amount of ease.

1909: Peary talks about having to "cross and recross" open water in the Arctic

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

Explorer suggests that SUVs caused the failure of his expedition

From this article, entitled "EXPLORER'S NORTH POLE ATTEMPT HALTED BY ICE":

A Plymouth-born explorer has been forced to abandon his bid to become the fastest man to walk solo and unsupported to the North Pole.

Ben Saunders, 30, is to be rescued after his equipment failed in 'appalling' ice conditions.

The main bolts which attach the binding of his boots to his skis sheared off and the damage was beyond repair.

From Saunders' web site:

The ice conditions I have encountered have been the worst I have ever seen, and worse than I could have imagined. I am witnessing at first hand the disintegration of the last of the Arctic’s multi-year pack ice. If climate change in the high Arctic continues at its current rate, I may be one of the last to be able to attempt this journey on foot.

So the Arctic ice was flat and stable until human carbon dioxide emissions ruined it?

Maybe not.

Check out the New York Times article here, where Commander Peary talks about Arctic conditions in 1909.

Excerpts from Peary himself:

The difficulties and hardships of a journey to the North Pole are too complex to be summed up in a paragraph. But, briefly stated, the worst of them are: the ragged and mountainous ice over which the traveler must journey with his heavily loaded sledges...
...the open leads already described, which he must cross and recross, somehow...

Another excerpt from the 1909 article:

Five flags were planted at the the top of the earth, and a bottle containing records was deposited between the ice blocks of a pressure ridge.