Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Set A 2nd Daily Record in a row on May 21

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent set a 2nd daily record in a row on May 22 (day 141 of 2013).

That is the 10th daily record for the year.

Year	No of Records
2010	129
2008	126
2006	29
2012	24
2007	21
2013	10
2009	8
2000	5
2004	5
1998	4
2005	3
1979	2
1980	1

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Set A New Daily Record on May 20

After setting 8 daily Antarctic Sea Ice Extent records earlier in the year, 2013 stayed near the top in 2nd, 3rd and 4th place until day 140 (May 20).

Another daily record was set yesterday breaking the old record set in 2000 by 66,000 sq km. 2013 is now in 6th place for daily records set.

Year	No of Records
2010	129
2008	126
2006	29
2012	24
2007	21
2013	9
2009	8
2000	5
2004	5
1998	4
2005	3
1979	2
1980	1

Where is the Data? UAH, HADCRUT kind of late

2nd UPDATE: UAH is out. My post here.I knew if I complained it would all show up.

UPDATE: HADCRUT4 for March 2013 is out. My post is here.

Anyone know where the UAH and HADCRUT data is?

While some of the UAH data arrived a few days ago, the downloadable file is still missing April’s data. March’s data arrived April 2.

HADCRUT is usually available by the 28th of the following month. February’s data came out March 28. It is now 10 days late.

Are they having a conference? March and April too cold to explain?

RSS is out. HADCET is out. NCDC is due soon, but not overdue.

Canada April 2013 – Really, Really Cold in the Middle

According to the Environment Canada “Normals” (the stations EC calculates anomalies for) , Canada was colder than the 1971-2000 average in April 2013.

The mean of all the “Normals” was -1.83C colder than 1971-2000 average.

If you look in the top left corder of the anomaly map and note the black circle represents 5C anomalies. Blue is colder than normal. Red is warmer.

The middle of the country was really, really cold. What little warmth there was, was concentrated in a handful of arctic stations.

And many of the stations had values too small to really show up on the map.

The anomaly map for April 2013 follows. Click to make it bigger.

Where do I get the data? From Environment Canada monthly summaries.

The URL for April 2013 BC data is here. You can replace BC with nothing (PROV=) or SASK or MAN etc.

I use the data with a D column  value because EC calculates the anomalies for me. And because they are supposed to be better/long stations.

HADCRUT4 1930 to 1949 by Month – Dangerous pre-CO2 Global Warming

HADCRUT4 1930 to 1949 by Month.

Normally you see this part of the graph with 2 or 3 red ticks because it is done annually.

Keep in mind the highest red tick is an anomaly of 0.355C for August 1945. The anomaly for August 2012 was 0.532C. Which is only 0.177C warmer. (Corrected)

Click to see bigger.

Climate Science: The Constructing Explanations Phase

I was reading a transcript of an interview with Hans von Storch on P Gosselin’s blog today.

In terms of my understanding of what is going on in climate “science”, he really hit the nail on the head.

“Q: Can the cause of the cold winters be identified?

HvS: One has to ask why are such explanations first found after the event appears.It indeed would have been much nicer if someone had said already in the year 2000: By the way, you have to expect harder winters in Europe because the Arctic ice is retreating in the summer. This claim today then would have been far more convincing. But it was the other way around: We noticed that something strange had happened, and then an explanation was constructed. Other explanations would also be possible.”

Bingo!!!

Climate Science in the 1980s and 1990s and 2000s made all kinds of predictions about coming doom and gloom. To use one example they predicted less sea ice at both poles. The problem for climate science is that Antarctic Sea  Ice grew! So what happened? Someone wrote a paper with a constructed explanation for why it happened (based on a joke of a climate model usually). There are dozens of other “explanations” that have come out recently to explain why there is more snow or less snow or more rain or less rain depending on which previous prediction existed.

What is really happening is that climate scientists are just making these explanations up because us “deniers” have been mocking them and making them look really really stupid. So scientists being well funded by the AGW industry have started constructing explanations to attack the deniers attacks on the old stupid obviously wrong predictions climate scientists made in the past.

So … we are now in the Constructing Explanations Phase of climate science. In essence they are trying to cover up their horrible predictions with bogus excuses.

 

 

 

 

 

Climatologists Are No Einsteins

Understatement of the Decade.

Freeman Dyson:

“I just think they don’t understand the climate,” he said of climatologists. “Their computer models are full of fudge factors.”

“The models are extremely oversimplified,” he said. “They don’t represent the clouds in detail at all. They simply use a fudge factor to represent the clouds.”

William Happer:

“There are people who just need a cause that’s bigger than themselves,” said Happer. “Then they can feel virtuous and say other people are not virtuous.”

That reminds of the joke Judith Curry deleted from her blog the other day:

Q: Why did god invent phrenologists?

A: So climate scientists would have a profession to look down upon.

Canada March 2013 – Really Cold in the Middle

According to the Environment Canada “Normals” (the stations EC calculates anomalies for) , Canada was colder than the 1971-2000 average in March 2013.

The mean of all the “Normals” was -.55C colder than 1971-2000 average.

If you look in the top left corder of the anomaly map and note the black circle represents 5C anomalies. Blue is colder than normal. Red is warmer.

The middle of the country was really, really cold. The warmth was concentrated in the far east and a couple of arctic stations.

And many of the stations had values too small to really show up on the map.

The anomaly map for Mar 2013 follows. Click to make it bigger.

Where do I get the data? From Environment Canada monthly summaries.

The URL for March 2013 BC data is here. You can replace BC with ALL or SASK of MAN etc.

I use the data with a D column  value because EC calculates the anomalies for me. And because they are supposed to be better/long stations.

HADCRUT4 Gridded Feb 2013 – Europe was COLDER than 1961-1990!!!

Using HADCRUT4 Gridded data for Feb 2013 , I thought it would be useful to map the 5×5 grid squares colder than 1961-1990.

For some strange reason HADCRUT4 uses the archaic 1961-1990 period as the baseline, rather than the accepted 1981-2010.

Please click on the maps to make them bigger. And make sure you get them to go full size. I made them pretty big (3200 x 2000 pixels).

The number in the boxes is the temperature difference between the 1961-90 average and Feb 2013.

Notice that most of Western Europe was colder than 1961-1990!!!!!!!

Why only the cold squares? Because the HADCRUT4 page colr choices tends to minimize the cold areas. And because I can.

Warming In The Arctic Has Happened Before – Cambridge Bay Nunavut

Some blogger named David Appell was sounding the AGW alarm yesterday (for the millionth time I think)  about dangerous Arctic Greening.

Aside from the fact that greening is probably a good thing and that greening may be caused by more CO2 (a plant food) and not necessarily warming I also thought I would take a look at some Environment Canada weather stations in the north.

One of the stations with a long data record is Cambridge Bay Airport in Nunavut. The temperature anomalies are in relation to the 1971 – 2000 average.

The temperature in the boxes is the 5 year average. While it is true the temperature is 2.5C or so warmer than around 1980, it is also true it is only 1.2C warmer than around 1940. And who knows if the 20s or 30s were warmer or colder? Not enough data.

Do note that around 1965 it was 1.8C colder than the 1930s/40s.

Click to enlarge.

Since the latest data is from February, I thought I would show the warmest and coldest February’s for Cambridge Bay Airport.

Notice that 1931 was 4th warmest. 1941 and 1940 and 1929 made the top 11. etc/

Top 25 Warmest February’s

year	Anomaly
1989	7.5
2006	7.2
1980	6.2
1931	6
1978	5.7
2012	5.3
2010	5
1941	3.8
1940	3.4
1969	3.2
1929	2.5
1986	2.5
2011	2.5
1935	2.4
1953	2.4
1984	2.1
2001	2.1
1963	2
2000	1.8
1981	1.7
1996	1.7
2007	1.7
1999	1.6
1945	1.5
2009	1.4

February 2013 was 3.1C below the 1971-2000 average. And 17th coldest.

Top 25 Coldest February’s

year	Anomaly
1958	-6.3
1972	-5.8
1955	-5.2
1979	-5.2
1990	-5.2
1949	-5
1936	-4.9
1965	-4.6
1983	-4.4
1946	-4.3
1951	-4.2
1967	-3.9
1962	-3.7
1985	-3.6
1942	-3.5
1957	-3.1
2013	-3.1
1974	-2.8
1977	-2.8
1952	-2.7
1956	-2.7
2008	-2.7
1950	-2.3
1966	-2.3
1937	-2