Arctic Sea Ice – Earliest Minimum Ever? « sunshine hours

Could that mean a record breaking maximum is on the way? Mar/Apr/May of 2012 flirted with 98% of the 1980s average.

...National Ice Center dropped only 30,000 sq km from September 1st to 2nd (still 580,000 sq km more than 2007)

Southern Hemisphere Sea Surface Temperatures Declining For 16 Years | Real Science

HadSST has updated through July, and now shows 16 years of temperature decline.

The Photosynthesis Effect - Minnesotans For Global Warming

What I think is interesting about this chart however is the dramatic spike in CO2 levels around sunset. CO2 levels go from a low of 378 ppm at 7 PM to a high of 462 ppm just after 9 PM. (sunset was at 7:51 PM). This is a 84 PPM or 18% increase in just 2 hours.

There are no man made influences shown on this chart. It was a very nice day here in Minnesota, we weren't running any air conditioners or furnaces, there were no fires no grilling this is just nature doing its thing. Plus, I have noticed this spike every night when taking measurements.

I'm sure all of you climate scientist reading this know all about the Photosynthesis Effect and have many arguments on why natural daily variations are meaningless. But when I see how much natural variability in CO2 levels there are in one day, I don't think there is a need to panic over a 1 PPM increase in CO2 every year at Mauna Loa.

The ‘hard won’ consensus | Climate Etc.

The failure of the IPCC to seriously explore natural variability (particularly natural internal variability on multi-decadal and longer time scales) as an alternative explanation would seem to fail the test of ‘a thorough examination of the range of alternative explanations’, where ‘experts are drawn into agreement only reluctantly after careful consideration.’ The hockey-stick line of thinking, whereby the blade was flat, is front and center in this failure. This does not imply that the IPCC is incorrect, but rather that their consensus was not ‘hard won’ by Ranalli’s criteria.

If the evidence for AGW is so convincing, why should it be "hard" to "win" any consensus?