The Arctic is melting, the Antarctic is freezing. What does this mean?

[Hervé]

Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet

The Guardian
Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:32 UTC

Unnamed peaks on the west coast of the Antarctic peninsula tower over the harsh Antarctic coast © Alamy Stock Photo

Scientists have uncovered the largest volcanic region on Earth - two kilometres below the surface of the vast ice sheet that covers west Antarctica.

The project, by Edinburgh University researchers, has revealed almost 100 volcanoes - with the highest as tall as the Eiger, which stands at almost 4,000 metres in Switzerland.

Geologists say this huge region is likely to dwarf that of east Africa's volcanic ridge, currently rated the densest concentration of volcanoes in the world.

The top graphic shows sites of some of the of the 91 volcanoes discovered. The lower graphic shows that volcanic eruptions may not reach the surface but could melt the ice from beneath and drastically destabilize it. © Guardian

And the activity of this range could have worrying consequences, they have warned. "If one of these volcanoes were to erupt it could further destabilise west Antarctica's ice sheets," said glacier expert Robert Bingham, one of the paper's authors. "Anything that causes the melting of ice - which an eruption certainly would - is likely to speed up the flow of ice into the sea.

"The big question is: how active are these volcanoes? That is something we need to determine as quickly as possible."

The Edinburgh volcano survey, reported in the Geological Society'sspecial publications series, involved studying the underside of the west Antarctica ice sheet for hidden peaks of basalt rock similar to those produced by the region's other volcanoes. Their tips actually lie above the ice and have been spotted by polar explorers over the past century.

But how many lie below the ice? This question was originally asked by the team's youngest member, Max Van Wyk de Vries, an undergraduate at the university's school of geosciences and a self-confessed volcano fanatic. He set up the project with the help of Bingham. Their study involved analysing measurements made by previous surveys, which involved the use of ice-penetrating radar, carried either by planes or land vehicles, to survey strips of the west Antarctic ice.

The results were then compared with satellite and database records and geological information from other aerial surveys. "Essentially, we were looking for evidence of volcanic cones sticking up into the ice," Bingham said.

After the team had collated the results, it reported a staggering 91 previously unknown volcanoes, adding to the 47 others that had been discovered over the previous century of exploring the region.

These newly discovered volcanoes range in height from 100 to 3,850 metres. All are covered in ice, which sometimes lies in layers that are more than 4km thick in the region. These active peaks are concentrated in a region known as the west Antarctic rift system, which stretches 3,500km from Antarctica's Ross ice shelf to the Antarctic peninsula.

"We were amazed," Bingham said. "We had not expected to find anything like that number. We have almost trebled the number of volcanoes known to exist in west Antarctica. We also suspect there are even more on the bed of the sea that lies under the Ross ice shelf, so that I think it is very likely this region will turn out to be the densest region of volcanoes in the world, greater even than east Africa, where mounts Nyiragongo, Kilimanjaro, Longonot and all the other active volcanoes are concentrated."

The discovery is particularly important because the activity of these volcanoes could have crucial implications for the rest of the planet. If one erupts, it could further destabilise some of the region's ice sheets, which have already been affected by global warming [from below ]. Meltwater outflows into the Antarctic ocean could trigger sea level rises. "We just don't know about how active these volcanoes have been in the past," Bingham said.

However, he pointed to one alarming trend: "The most volcanism that is going in the world at present is in regions that have only recently lost their glacier covering - after the end of the last ice age. These places include Iceland and Alaska.

"Theory suggests that this is occurring because, without ice sheets on top of them, there is a release of pressure on the regions' volcanoes and they become more active."

And this could happen in west Antarctica, where significant warming in the region caused by climate change has begun to affect its ice sheets. If they are reduced significantly, this could release pressure on the volcanoes that lie below and lead to eruptions that could further destabilise the ice sheets and enhance sea level rises that are already affecting our oceans.

"It is something we will have to watch closely," Bingham said.

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LOVED you "silent" emo, Herve!!

[Hervé]

NASA study finds volcanic magma plume under Antarctica may explain ice sheet instability

Anthony Watts Watt's Up With That
Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:08 UTC

Illustration of flowing water under the Antarctic ice sheet. Blue dots indicate lakes, lines show rivers. Marie Byrd Land is part of the bulging "elbow" leading to the Antarctic Peninsula, left center. © NSF/Zina Deretsky

From NASA's Jet propulsion Laboratory and the "inconvenient science" department comes this study that dashes hopes of pinning melting in Antarctica entirely on human activity.

Hot News from the Antarctic Underground

Study Bolsters Theory of Heat Source Under West Antarctica

A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet. Although the heat source isn't a new or increasing threat to the West Antarctic ice sheet, it may help explain why the ice sheet collapsed rapidly in an earlier era of rapid climate change, and why it is so unstable today.

The stability of an ice sheet is closely related to how much water lubricates it from below, allowing glaciers to slide more easily. Understanding the sources and future of the meltwater under West Antarctica is important for estimating the rate at which ice may be lost to the ocean in the future.

Antarctica's bedrock is laced with rivers and lakes, the largest of which is the size of Lake Erie. Many lakes fill and drain rapidly, forcing the ice surface thousands of feet above them to rise and fall by as much as 20 feet (6 meters). The motion allows scientists to estimate where and how much water must exist at the base.

Some 30 years ago, a scientist at the University of Colorado Denver suggested that heat from a mantle plume under Marie Byrd Land might explain regional volcanic activity and a topographic dome feature. Very recent seismic imaging has supported this concept. When Hélène Seroussi of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, first heard the idea, however, "I thought it was crazy," she said. "I didn't see how we could have that amount of heat and still have ice on top of it."

With few direct measurements existing from under the ice, Seroussi and Erik Ivins of JPL concluded the best way to study the mantle plume idea was by numerical modeling. They used the Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM), a numerical depiction of the physics of ice sheets developed by scientists at JPL and the University of California, Irvine. Seroussi enhanced the ISSM to capture natural sources of heating and heat transport from freezing, melting and liquid water; friction; and other processes.

To assure the model was realistic, the scientists drew on observations of changes in the altitude of the ice sheet surface made by NASA's IceSat satellite and airborne Operation IceBridge campaign. "These place a powerful constraint on allowable melt rates - the very thing we wanted to predict," Ivins said. Since the location and size of the possible mantle plume were unknown, they tested a full range of what was physically possible for multiple parameters, producing dozens of different simulations.

They found that the flux of energy from the mantle plume must be no more than 150 milliwatts per square meter. For comparison, in U.S. regions with no volcanic activity, the heat flux from Earth's mantle is 40 to 60 milliwatts. Under Yellowstone National Park - a well-known geothermal hot spot - the heat from below is about 200 milliwatts per square meter averaged over the entire park, though individual geothermal features such as geysers are much hotter.

Seroussi and Ivins' simulations using a heat flow higher than 150 milliwatts per square meter showed too much melting to be compatible with the space-based data, except in one location: an area inland of the Ross Sea known for intense flows of water. This region required a heat flow of at least 150-180 milliwatts per square meter to agree with the observations. However, seismic imaging has shown that mantle heat in this region may reach the ice sheet through a rift, that is, a fracture in Earth's crust such as appears in Africa's Great Rift Valley.

Mantle plumes are thought to be narrow streams of hot rock rising through Earth's mantle and spreading out like a mushroom cap under the crust. The buoyancy of the material, some of it molten, causes the crust to bulge upward. The theory of mantle plumes was proposed in the 1970s to explain geothermal activity that occurs far from the boundary of a tectonic plate, such as Hawaii and Yellowstone.

The Marie Byrd Land mantle plume formed 50 to 110 million years ago, long before the West Antarctic ice sheet came into existence. At the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago, the ice sheet went through a period of rapid, sustained ice loss when changes in global weather patterns and rising sea levels pushed warm water closer to the ice sheet - just as is happening today. Seroussi and Ivins suggest the mantle plume could facilitate this kind of rapid loss.

Via NASA

Find the study here.

Influence of a West Antarctic mantle plume on ice sheet basal conditions

Helene Seroussi, Erik R. Ivins, Douglas A. Wiens, Johannes Bondzio
First published: 4 September 2017
DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014423

Abstract

The possibility that a deep mantle plume manifests Pliocene and Quaternary volcanism and potential elevated heat flux in West Antarctica has been studied for more than 30 years. Recent seismic images support the plume hypothesis as the cause of Marie Byrd Land (MBL) volcanism and geophysical structure. Mantle plumes may more than double the geothermal heat flux above nominal continental values. A dearth of in situ ice sheet basal data exists that samples the heat flux. Consequently, we examine a realistic distribution of heat flux associated with a possible late Cenozoic mantle plume in West Antarctica and explore its impact on thermal and melt conditions at the ice sheet base. We use a simple analytical mantle plume parameterization to produce geothermal heat flux at the base of the ice sheet. The three-dimensional ice flow model includes an enthalpy framework and full-Stokes stress balance. As both the putative plume location and extent are uncertain, we perform broadly scoped experiments to characterize the impact of the plume on geothermal heat flux and ice sheet basal conditions. The experiments show that mantle plumes have an important local impact on the ice sheet, with basal melting rates reaching several centimeters per year directly above the hotspot. In order to be consistent with observations of basal hydrology in MBL, the upper bound on the plume-derived geothermal heat flux is 150 mW/m2. In contrast, the active lake system of the lower part of Whillans Ice Stream suggests a widespread anomalous mantle heat flux, linked to a rift source.

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this study that dashes hopes of pinning melting in Antarctica entirely on human activity.

Right... there's 0.0001% contribution from human activity...

[TargeT]

Posted by Hervé (here)

this study that dashes hopes of pinning melting in Antarctica entirely on human activity.

Right... there's 0.0001% contribution from human activity...

That's probably enough to pass a global carbon tax, right?

[Hervé]

New Antarctic heat map reveals hot spots beneath the ice

by Robert
November 20, 2017

Geothermal heat sources suspiciously close to areas where the ice has been melting.
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An international team of scientists led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has produced a new map showing how much heat from the Earth’s interior is reaching the base of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The map was published last week (13 Nov 2017) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

According to a press release from the BAS,

“the team has produced the most up to date, accurate and high-resolution map of the so called ‘geothermal heat flux’ at the base of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.”

Map of geothermal heat beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet .

“Magnetic measurements mainly collected by aircraft reveal the ‘hot spots’ under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and on the Antarctic Peninsula. These areas are the most rapidly changing areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.” (Italics added).”

“The new study from BAS uses over 50 years of magnetic measurements that were collected from thousands of hours flying over the continent. Warmer rocks lose their magnetic properties, and so the team was able to use the loss of magnetism in certain areas to calculate an estimate of the geothermal heat flux.”

You’d think a discovery such as this would make it clear that geothermal activity is melting the ice. But oh, no, the BAS has other ideas.

Even though “the most rapidly changing areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet” (areas where the ice is melting) are located in the same areas as the geothermal hotspots, the BAS seems unable to grasp that there may be a cause-and-effect relationship.

“The ice loss we’ve seen in recent decades is actually the result of changes in air and ocean temperatures,” says BAS Science Director and glaciologist Professor David Vaughan.

Uh huh. I wonder if Professor Vaughn also thinks El Niño (which warms the Pacific Ocean) is caused by humans.

New map of Antarctic geothermal heat suggests Steig & Mann 2009 weren’t measuring ‘global warming’

Comparison – 2017 BAS geothermal flux (left) vs. Steig et al. 2009 air temperature anomaly trend in Antarctica in °C (right). Graphic comparison by A. Watts.






91 under ice volcanoes – from Bingham et al.

[Hervé]

Hottest Week Of The Year – All Of Antarctica Below Freezing

by tonyheller The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
Posted on January 24, 2018

This week is the hottest week of the year in Antarctica, and the entire continent is below freezing. In the map below, I have masked out all above freezing temperatures.

Climate Reanalyzer

Meanwhile, our fake news and fake science organizations tell us Antarctica is melting down, and it is bad news.

A huge part of Antarctica is melting and scientists say that’s bad news – CNN

Experts also say refugees will be forced to flee to Antarctica before 2030.

Climate change study predicts refugees fleeing into Antarctica – Telegraph

[Kristin]

Hmmm... all of that hot air, water, and a largely unexplored landmass. Great place for underground bases complete with hot springs and greenhouses. As long as it does not all explode that is. Really interesting.

[GrayWolfBG]

Another late winter of WAA storms blasting into the Atlantic side of the basin. From the 2015/16 and 2016/17 tethered missions on our side of the pole we know just what will be happening across the ice with temps pushed up beyond freezing ( under 24 hr arctic winter conditions!) and swells driven into the ice front whilst Ekman pumping under the ice as the low passes.
With only a few weeks to go until ice max and we are again in a race for bottom of the pack?
Last year was the first year we could reasonably expect a return of the 'perfect melt storm' synoptic last seen in 07'. Unless we have radically altered the atmospheric patterns over the Arctic we now face another melt season with the spectre of the return of the 'perfect melt storm' still over us.
How many years can we depend upon low melt/low export summers to preserve the remaining ice before winter conditioning renders the pack unsustainable over summer due to poor ice growth/warming ice?

[Hervé]

Overheated claims on temperature records

by Robert February 16, 2018

“Most basic assumptions underlying climate concerns are either in doubt or simply wrong”
– Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris

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“Over and over, we are confronted with claims that last month or last year was “the warmest on record.” says Paul Driessen. “Each claim is accompanied by dire warnings that the alleged new records portend “unprecedented” chaos for wildlife, humans and planet.”

“Virtually never do these scary press releases mention that the supposed change is mere hundredths of a degree higher than previous measurements. Never do they admit that the margin of error in these measurements is far greater than the supposed increase. Never do they suggest that a little more warmth would be infinitely better than a colder world, with less arable land and shorter growing seasons. And most certainly, never do they admit to the massive deficiencies in the system that supposedly tracks Earth’s temperature … and always blames any increases on humans and fossil fuels.”

“This article by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris points out all these highly relevant but often (deliberately) ignored realities.”

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Overheated claims on temperature records

It’s time for sober second thoughts on climate alarms

By Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris

Now that the excitement has died down over the news that Earth’s surface temperature made 2017 one of the hottest years on record, it is time for sober second thoughts.

Did the January 18 announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that 2017 was our planet’s third-hottest year since 1880, and NASA’s claim that it was the second hottest year, actually mean anything?

Thank goodness we have been in a gradual warming trend since the depths of the Little Ice Age
Although the Los Angeles Times called 2017 “a top-three scorcher for planet Earth,” neither the NOAA nor the NASA records are significant. One would naturally expect the warmest years to come during the most recent years of a warming trend. And thank goodness we have been in a gradual warming trend since the depths of the Little Ice Age in the late 1600s! Back then, the River Thames was covered by a meter of ice, as Jan Grifier’s 1683 painting “The Great Frost’ illustrates.

Regardless, recent changes have been too small for even most thermometers to notice. More important, they are often less than the government’s estimates of uncertainty in the measurements. In fact, we lack the data to properly and scientifically compare today’s temperatures with the past.

This is because, until the 1960s, surface temperature data was collected using mercury thermometers located at weather stations situated mostly in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and eastern Australia. Most of the rest of the planet had very few temperature sensing stations. And none of the Earth’s oceans, which constitute 70 percent of the planet’s surface area, had more than an occasional station separated from its neighbors by thousands of kilometers or miles.

The data collected at the weather stations in this sparse grid had, at best, an accuracy of +/-0.5 degrees Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit). In most cases, the real-world accuracy was no better than +/-1 deg C (1.8 deg F). Averaging such poor data in an attempt to determine global conditions cannot yield anything meaningful. Displaying average global temperature to tenths or even hundreds of a degree, as is done in the NOAA and NASA graphs, clearly defies common sense.

Modern weather station surface temperature data is now collected using precision thermocouples. But, starting in the 1970s, less and less ground surface temperature data was used for plots such as those by NOAA and NASA. This was done initially because governments believed satellite monitoring could take over from most of the ground surface data collection.

Satellites did not show the desired warming so bureaucrats closed most of the colder sensing stations thereby yielding the desired warming
However, the satellites did not show the warming forecast by computer models, which had become so crucial to climate studies and energy policy-making. So bureaucrats closed most of the colder rural surface temperature sensing stations – the ones furthest from much warmer urban areas – thereby yielding the warming desired for political purposes.

Today, virtually no data exist for approximately 85 percent of the earth’s surface. Indeed, fewer weather stations are in operation now than in 1960.

Computations by NOAA and NASA after about 1980 are meaningless
That means surface temperature computations by NOAA and NASA after about 1980 are meaningless. Combining this with the problems with earlier data renders an unavoidable conclusion: It is not possible to know how Earth’s so-called average surface temperature has varied over the past century and a half.

The data is therefore useless for input to the computer models that form the basis of policy recommendations produced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and used to justify eliminating fossil fuels, and replacing them with renewable energy.

But the lack of adequate surface data is only the start of the problem. The computer models on which the climate scare is based are mathematical constructions that require the input of data above the surface, as well as on it. The models divide the atmosphere into cubes piled on top of each other, ideally with wind, humidity, cloud cover and temperature conditions known for different altitudes. But we currently have even less data above the surface than on it, and there is essentially no historical data at altitude.

Many people think the planet is adequately covered by satellite observations, data that represents global 24/7 coverage and is far more accurate than anything determined at weather stations. But the satellites are unable to collect data from the north and south poles, regions that the IPCC, NOAA and NASA tout as critical to understanding global warming. Besides, space-based temperature data collection did not start until 1979, and 30 years of weather data are required to generate a single data point on a climate graph.

So the satellite record is far too short to allow us to come to useful conclusions about climate change.

In fact, there is insufficient data of any kind – temperature, land and sea ice, glaciers, sea level, extreme weather, ocean pH, and so on – to be able to determine how today’s climate differs from the past. Lacking such fundamental data, climate forecasts cited by climate activists therefore have no connection with the real world.

British Professor Hubert Lamb is often identified as the founder of modern climatology. In his comprehensive 1972 treatise, Climate: Past, Present and Future, he clearly showed that it is not possible to understand climate change without having vast amounts of accurate weather data over long time frames. Lamb also noted that funding for improving the weather database was dwarfed by money being spent on computer models and theorizing. He warned that this would result in wild and unsubstantiated theories and assertions, while predictions failed to improve. That is precisely what happened.

Each and every prediction made by the computer models cited by the IPCC have turned out to be incorrect.
Indeed, the first predictions they made for the IPCC’s 1990 Assessment Report were so wrong that the panel started to call them “projections” and offered low, medium and high “confidence” ranges for future guesstimates, which journalists, politicians and others nevertheless treated as reliable predictions for future weather and climate.

IPCC members seemed to conclude that, if they provided a broad enough range of forecasts, one was bound to be correct. Yet, even that was too optimistic. All three ranges predicted by the IPCC have turned out to be wrong.

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is right to speak about the need for a full blown public debate among scientists about the causes and consequences of climate change. In his February 6 television interview on KSNV, an NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, Mr. Pruitt explained:

“There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don’t get to. And that’s one of the reasons why I’ve talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, and what don’t we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues.”

On January 30, Pruitt told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that a “red team-blue team exercise” (an EPA-sponsored debate between climate scientists holding differing views) is under consideration. It is crucially important that such a debate take place.

Most basic assumptions underlying climate concerns are either in doubt or simply wrong
The public needs to understand that even the most basic assumptions underlying climate concerns are either in doubt or simply wrong. The campaign to force America, Canada, Europe and the rest of the world to switch from abundant and affordable coal and other fossil fuels – to expensive, unreliable, land intensive alternatives – supposedly to control Earth’s always fluctuating climate, will then finally be exposed for what it really is: the greatest, most damaging hoax in history.

Dr. Tim Ball is an environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba. Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition.

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World’s Climate is Rapidly Cooling
2/26/18
http://drsircus.com/spiritual-psycho...00aa2d281fb280
The news about the REAL climate changes are getting more alarming, and now coupled with the increasing amount of volcanic activity, it is no longer a future scenario--we are IN IT!.
ALSO SEE: [/I]https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1210568
[QUOTE]Sinabung Eruption Signals Year without a Summer Cycle
I'm not sure about the accuracy of this source's information, but perhaps some of Avalon's more scientific members will comment.
It would be nice if he would calm down and stop sounding borderline hysterical, but if his information is accurate, it can't be ignored.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iAUOTh7a01o

Adapt 2030
Published on Feb 20, 2018
The awakening of Sinabung among other volcanoes awakening on a multi century cycle, indicates that the grand solar minimum intensification of intense eruptions has begun. This latest eruption of Sinabung has sent ash 17KM/55,000ft into the atmosphere which reached the troposphere and will spread across Asia. Iceland awakens as well and the world is not ready to handle another "Year Without a Summer" which this signals. Good luck in your preparations.

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The top 10 volcanic explosions in history: Sulfate deposits reveal the most destructive eruptions of the last 2,000 years http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetec...
Drill Ice, Baby, Drill Ice – Reflections on Clive Oppenheimer’s Eruptions that Shook the World https://unchartedterritory.wordpress....
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World’s Climate is Rapidly Cooling

Contrary to all of the hype about melting glaciers, at least 58 New Zealand glaciers advanced between 1983 and 2008. Indeed, Franz Josef Glacier advanced nearly continuously during those years. “We found that lower temperature caused the glaciers to advance, rather than increased precipitation as previously thought. These periods of reduced temperature affected the entire New Zealand region, and they were significant enough for the glaciers to re-advance in spite of human-induced climate change.”

It is not going to be fun trying to survive in the northern reaches of our planet. Remember that movie about the sudden onset of a new ice age where the scientist picks up a marker and sweeps it across the belly of America and says to the President, evacuate everyone below this line. Rapid cooling is happening to our beloved earth and there is nothing we can do about it except fantasize about global warming. The ice and snow that is headed our way is going to bury civilization in the northern latitudes in the next few decades.

Not going to happen from one week to another, like in the move ‘The Day After’, but this year is showing us how fast things can change, how deep the temperatures can drop, how snow accumulations can mount and how normal activities can be curtailed. Not much goes on during a blizzard and when the snow gets too deep roofs start collapsing. Perhaps the destined financial collapse will happen first, but cold climate change will offer us a staggering challenge that few are preparing for.

Billings Montana gives a bird’s eye view of what is happening in terms of amounts of snow. As of yesterday, Billings hadn’t seen this much snow by the 18th of February — ever — and 10 more days still remain in the month. As of Sunday night, at least 31.5 inches of snow had fallen this month, well on the way to breaking the previous February snowfall record of 37 inches set just three years ago in 2014. For the snow year so far, measured from July 1, snowfall stands at 76 inches, about 44 inches above normal. The 103.5 inches that fell during the 2013-2014 snow season made it the highest snow season on record.

We had record snowfall in northern Japan that broke a 47-year-old record. The snow depth in Horokanai, in northern Japan’s Hokkaido, has been measured at 3.124 meters (slightly more than 10 feet), setting a new local record. It beats the previous record of 3.119 meters set in 1970. Not surprisingly, locals say the huge amount of snow is making life difficult.

No one is quite understanding the consequences of global cooling and how fast it will affect most of our lives and this is complicated by the fact that the elite, government officials and the press are all hysterical about man made global warming. It is the biggest mistake any group of humans ever made, betting against Nature.

Global cooling will kick us where it hurts the most, in our stomachs, which will be deprived of foods because of shorter growing seasons. With global warming we had a chance of increasing agriculture growing zones pushing further and further north but with cooling its going to be a massacre. Humans will die in mass and populations will be reduced as elite desire.

Climate change is poised to affect the world’s food supply in three key ways, experts say. "There will be impacts on the quantity, quality and location of the food we produce," said Dr. Sam Myers, a medical doctor and senior research scientist studying environmental health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "We’ve never needed to increase food production more rapidly than we do today to keep up with global demand," Myers told Live Science. That is going to be impossible in a cooling world where contracting growing seasons will collapse yields.

“The recent prolonged solar minimum and subsequent weak solar cycle 24 have led to suggestions that the grand solar maximum may be at an end,” says this study on nature.com. The study, published in 2015, looked at past variations of solar activity. In 2010, the study found, scientists estimated a mere 8% chance of a return to Maunder Minimum-like conditions within the next 40 years. However, “the decline in solar activity has continued, to the time of writing, and is faster than any other such decline in 9,300 years.”


Interestingly Safe Haven, a financial site published the following on solar activity:

January’s Sunspot count came in at 6.7, which was down from December’s 8.2. The following chart includes the latest post and covers Solar Cycle 24. The high was 145 in February 2014, which compares to the high of 238 in September 2003.

With the decline in solar activity, the number of Spotless days continues to grow. It’s the way it works. So far, this year there has been 17 days, or 52% for the year. In all of 2017, the number was 104 days or 28% and the year before it was 32 days or 9%. For 2015 the count was zero, as it essentially was back to 2010.

They also published on the effects of diminishing solar winds:

As solar activity diminishes the Earth’s magnetic field also diminishes. This lets more cosmic rays through, which prompts more clouds. This increases the probability of precipitation. By reflecting more of the sun’s energy to outer space it also forces cooling.

This influence is beyond weather, it is climate and it is changing. The current part of the decline has yet to bring the average temperatures down. It will. The theory about cosmic ray influences is gaining widespread acceptance.

Exceptional Cold
Exceptional cold in Brail. First half of February totally out of the summer pattern, that is, mild or even cold. Cold and frost in southern Brazil in the height of summer. Exceptional cold in Russia. On Wednesday, February 21, the minimum temperature in Moscow will drop to -14 to -19°C. On Thursday, February 22, the temperature will drop to -18 to – 20°C. The coldest day will be February 23, when the temperature will drop to -20 to – 25°C. The average daily temperature will be below the norm by 12 degrees! Temperatures near Moscow eventually dropped to -30°C.

Timothy Mytton-Watson, who runs renovation and repair pool business in Austrailia, which is being hurt by lower summer temperatures said, “You can feel the desperation out there. It’s really strange. I’ve only jumped in my pool three times this whole summer. Usually it’s 40 times.” Its been running a chilly 15 to 17 degrees at night and it’s the height of the summer! This will be the first time in 16 years that Pert will not deliver a 40-degree day this summer.

Bozeman Yellowstone Airport is reporting a colder than normal February. Average temperature through the 22nd is 15.7°, which is -10.6° below normal and the 13th coldest on record so far.

Rankin Inlet freeze

Rankin Inlet in a deep freeze of -60C a couple weeks ago.

Here is the news from the Artic Circle where record breaking temperatures are supposed to be melting all the ice:

Temperatures are getting to –40 C before the wind-chill and when the winds are factored in, it feels colder than –60 C.

“You’ve got blustery winds with some of the coldest temperatures that people have ever experienced,” said David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada, adding that his charts say skin freezes in two minutes at –55 C.

Blame for the 15 degrees colder than normal temperatures is being placed on the polar vortex, a combination of an aggressive weather system and frigid air temperatures. That’s a funny way of saying its 15 degrees colder than normal because global temperatures are plunging. Its cold because we are living on a cooling planet because of a decline in solar activity, and all that results from that.

More Ice


This image from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) clearly shows no shortage of ice. The white area shows Arctic sea-ice extent as of January 2018. The magenta line shows the 30-year median sea-ice extent for January. Not exactly the catastrophic ice loss that we’ve been led to believe, is it? Yet in the news we read:

The world’s sea ice shrank to a record January low last month as the annual polar melting period expanded, experts say. The 5.04 million square miles of ice in the Arctic was 525,000 square miles below the 1981-to-2010 ice cover average, making it the lowest January total in satellite records, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

In the above image does it look like uncontrolled global warming that is melting the poles? Read: “Additionally, James G. Anderson, Harvard professor of atmospheric chemistry, says the chance of permanent ice remaining in the Arctic after 2022 is zero. Already, 80% is gone.” In the above image, does it look anywhere near 80% gone? Today almost anyone can write anything and get away with it with no sense of responsibility of even trying to be near to the truth.

Record snowfall in Norway brings warnings of roof cave ins. Several instances of property owners needing to dig tunnels to their front doors. Heavy snowfall this winter continues to set new records.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jOf85LUKjOk

Exploding Volcanos Equals More Cooling

Siberian super frost to invade large portion of Europe
https://www.iceagenow.info/wp-conten...lo-21Feb18.png

Will be an “epochal event,” warns Italian website. “Truly extraordinary.” “Historical.” A “truly extraordinary” wave of frost will cover more than half of Europe, warns Meteo Giornale. A mass of very cold, glacial air will stretch directly from Siberia into Russia, cross the Urals and then expand to the heart of the Old Continent. It will be “an epochal event for the end of February,” not only in Italy, but also in parts of Europe. “It is very unusual at the end of February to have to deal with freezing flows of such intensity, it is a historical.” Today as the cold reached the UK wind chill during the day will feel like -10C to -15C.

Two weeks before a cold snap griped much of the Spanish peninsula reduced the availability of vegetables and salads on the European market. The extreme cold has even extended beyond southern Europe and into Africa! For example Southern Morocco saw snow for the first time. And so has the Canary island of Tenerife seen its landscape get blanketed with the white stuff.

Dr. Mark Sircus
AC., OMD, DM (P)
Director International Medical Veritas Association
Doctor of Oriental and Pastoral Medicine

[onawah]

Deep Bore Into Antarctica Finds Freezing Ice, Not Melting as Expected
National Geographic
2/22/18

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fyjt5zpNAeg

At the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, scientists used a hot-water drill hose to create a hole through the thick ice until they reached the perpetually dark water. What they found surprised them.This is the Ross Ice Shelf – the biggest floating ice shelf in Antarctica. Such shelves are important because they hold back a vast amount of ice. If all such West Antarctic shelves were to collapse and spill the ice into the ocean then global sea level would rise by 10 feet. Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf is one of the least explored bits of ocean on Earth. New Zealand scientists used a hot-water drill hose to create a hole through the thick ice until they reached the perpetually dark water. They hoped to study the health and history of the shelf. Their findings surprised them. They found that the ice in the hole itself and along the base of the shelf was crystalizing and freezing rather than melting. Measurements will be taken for the next few years, to see how the Ross Ice Shelf is changing over time.

Read more in "Deep Bore Into Antarctica Finds Freezing Ice, Not Melting as Expected"

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...

[Cidersomerset]

This is a very good segment that ties together some of the geo - political
agendas that keep coming up in the news but are connected on many levels.....
Weather /climate change being one of the memes used since the 1970's first
a coming Ice age , then global warming now climate change.....

Uranium One, Green Lobbyists, The REAL Russian Connection
- INFOWARS..David Knight

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OH3qbl5NtaQ

Published on 1 Mar 2018

This on NBC just an hour age. suggesting those around Trump believe it

The U.S. Military's Plan To Fight Climate Change | Mach | NBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsqQG4RrQ8A
Published on 1 Mar 2018
The U.S. military bases are shifting towards renewable energy and are using solar
panels and wind farms to eventually become net-zero energy and net-zero water users.

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Another segment with David Knight just posted...

MARC MORANO: (LIAR) AL GORE, CLIMATE CHANGE! - ALEX JONES INFOWARS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QKtJxwJDSY
Published on 1 Mar 2018

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Penguin super-colony spotted from space

By Jonathan Amos and Victoria Gill
Science correspondents, BBC News
52 minutes ago..2/3/18

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43250744

[onawah]

Robert Felix - Not By Fire But By Ice - Magnetic Reversals And Evolutionary Leap
3/2/18
(During the last magnetic reversal and mini ice-age, millions perished of starvation. We are heading for another one now.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_knfBtYueAg

Oppenheimer Ranch Project
Published on Mar 2, 2018
Welcome to our PREMIER podcast on Revolution Radio freedomslips.com our first guest was Robert Felix and we ejoyed a lively discussion about the coming Grand Solar Minimum, Ice Ages, Magnetic Reversal and Excursions and MORE!!'

[onawah]

Felix said in the interview above that he thinks about moving to southern Washington state or Oregon, but knowing what Dutchsinse's reports https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...-and-Forecasts
...are saying about that area, the "slow slip" which extends all along the West Coast exacerbated by fracking and offshore drilling all along the fault lines, the increasing earthquake and volcano activity, it's sure not where I would be thinking of moving...
Anyplace where fracking is going on, especially along fault lines, is subject not only to increasing earthquakes, but also polluted water and ruined landscapes.

[onawah]

Climate Denier's Ignore Sea Ice And Polar Bear Science - The Future of Extreme Cold In A CAGW World
3/4/18

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hi81AfmvFw

Oppenheimer Ranch Project
Published on Mar 4, 2018
The Future of Extreme Cold in a Warming World
For much of the U.S. east of the Rockies, middle to late January tends to be the coldest time of the year. Even though extreme cold can still happen in winter, as was seen earlier this year in much of the country, the frequency and intensity of extreme cold is declining as the world warms from the increase in greenhouse gases. By manipulating the data and using straight lines which never represent climate EVER, we were able to show absolutely nothing important. http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery...
First Week of 2018 Was the Coldest on Record in Dozens of Cities in the East https://weather.com/storms/winter/new...
Tuesday’s low temperature shatters 120-year-old record http://www.whio.com/weather/minus-new...
Record-breaking cold sweeps US in first days of 2018
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2018/01...
The Craziest Weather Records This Seemingly Endless Cold Spell Is Breaking http://people.com/human-interest/2018...
Record low temperatures stoke chaos in U.S. and Canada
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/201...
So you think you're cold? How does 88 below zero sound?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/weathe...
It’s so cold in Russia that thermometers are breaking
http://bgr.com/2018/01/16/russia-oymy...
Baton Rouge, New Orleans shatter record low temperatures Wednesday morning http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_roug...
Climate denier blogs ignore sea ice and polar bear science, study finds http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cli...
POLAR BEARS KEEP THRIVING, ALARMISTS KEEP PRETENDING THEY’RE DYING https://www.thegwpf.com/susan-crockfo...
DMI - Modeled ice thickness and volume
The plots show maps with sea ice thickness, and seasonal cycles of the calculated total arctic sea ice volume.http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icethickne...
https://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maali...

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GSM Update 3/5/18 - Blizzard Warnings - 100 Year Snow Record - Thousands Without Water In The UK
3/5/18

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EaIesjPS3SA

Oppenheimer Ranch Project
Winter Storm Quinn to Bring Blizzard Conditions to the Northern Plains and Spread Heavy Snow Into the Upper Midwest https://weather.com/storms/winter/new...
Storm System To Bring Blizzard Conditions To The Northern Plains and Extreme Fire Weather Conditions To The Central and Southern Plains https://www.weather.gov/
Winter Storm ‘Riley’: The aftermath http://www.poconorecord.com/news/2018...
Sunday snowfall breaks 100-year-old daily record
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/stor...
Thousands still without water in aftermath of snow chaos
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...
PNG earthquake: 11 people dead after strong aftershocks rock Highlands http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-05...
M6.0 aftershock hits Papua New Guinea, 4th M6+ after M7.5 on February 25 https://watchers.news/2018/03/04/m6-0...
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NDRRMC Update SitRep No. 55 re Mayon Volcano Eruption as of 8:00 AM (05 March 2018) https://reliefweb.int/report/philippi...
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[onawah]

What Scientists Now Know About the Impending Mini Ice Age but Aren't Saying
Adapt 2030
Published on Jan 22, 2018

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vWC8kx_fGlk

There is now a concerted effort to switch the narrative of global warming to global cooling in the main stream media. Along with that a shift from oceans were rising to now they are not rising, warming will stop because the mini ice age is coming, orbits of our planet are moving, Antarctic ice is not growing and a massive effort to make you believe because of a tiny amount of Arctic sea ice loss its now creating record cold across parts of the Northern Hemisphere. This is what scientist know is coming but are afraid to say, as it has drastic effects for our society moving forward.

With talk of ‘mini ice age,’ global warming debate may again be about to changehttps://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01...
We’re Due For Another Ice Age But Climate Change May Push It Back Another 100,000 Years, Researchers Say https://weather.com/news/climate/news...
What if the earth is actually cooling? https://globalnews.ca/news/3955038/da...
Huge snowfall increases over Antarctica could counter sea level rise, scientists say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/e...
Sea Ice Comparison Tool http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/sea...
Arctic Sea Ice http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/sea...
The 'imminent mini ice age' myth is back, and it's still wrong https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
Satellite Temperature Measurements http://www.drroyspencer.com/
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-conten...
The Bottom of the Ocean Is Sinking https://www.livescience.com/61328-oce...
Melting glaciers aren’t just causing sea levels to rise – they’re causing the ocean floor to sink http://bgr.com/2018/01/08/ocean-floor...
Ocean Bottom Deformation Due To Present-Day Mass Redistribution and Its Impact on Sea Level Observations http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10...
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[GrayWolfBG]

Well, here we are!

Since 2007 I realised the Arctic basin could not withstand another 'perfect melt storm' summer without turning 'Practically ice free' ( sub 1 million sq km).

We know that such events return every 10 to 20 years with the two prior to 07' being spaced 10 years apart.

The thing I had not considered was the Solar Cycle.

Last low solar saw three record years in the Arctic, 07' ,2010 and 2012.

I now think that the return period of the 'perfect melt storm may be connected to the low solar end of the Solar cycle.

We learned over the last low solar that northern blocking over winter in the N. Atlantic was more common over low solar. Does this propensity for High pressure just drift north at the end of winter and into spring? Well this year is seeing such behaviours and is the first year since 2012 to still be on course for a 'perfect melt storm summer.

This scares the hell out of me!

The whacked out Autumn/early winter weather we have been enduring recently is due to the open water we now see in the basin each year.

Since the start of the Sat. era this 'cover' has reduced by 40%. If the loss of 40% can drive the extremes we have seen what will suddenly doubling that have on our autumn/winter???

Well the next two weeks forecasts see a continuation of the pattern so 2 more weeks of worry!

Let us not forget that on top of ice loss we are now looking down the barrel of a methane cannon. In 2016 over 1,000 'pingo like' hills grew across Yamal ( the place that gave us the blowout craters in 2014?). Last year the WACCy snow that fell in the October of 2016 kept the area chilled by its slow melt and cloudy conditions. This year snow melt is on course and we are seeing multiple wildfires in Southern Siberia. Could we also see methane eruptions if we have another sunny , warm melt season over the Arctic?

It is one thing to worry about an event that could start the collapse of our global society, a whole other thing to believe you are watching it happen!

[Hervé]

Another inconvenient truth: Antarctica's ice sheet is more durable than we thought

Anthony Watts Watts Up With That?
Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:38 UTC

Mt. Erebus rising above the ice-covered continent © Ted Scambos & Rob Bauer, NSIDC

On the same day that WaPo and other alarmist media outlets were wailing about a small loss in Antarctic ice balance, another study came out. This study found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has survived higher temperatures than we are experiencing now.

From PM (Popular Mechanics):

Summary:

• Scientists studied the Pliocene epoch, which happened a few million years ago.
• Temperatures were a little warmer then, so the epoch could be a good preview of a warmer Earth.
• They found Antarctic ice was more prevalent back then than we'd believed.

One of the biggest potential dangers of increasing climate change is sea level rise caused by the melting of the polar ice caps. As our planet heats up, large ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will melt, potentially triggering several feet of increased sea level rise. If the entire Antarctic ice sheet melts into the ocean, it could lead to dozens of feet of sea level rise, likely enough to wipe out entire cities.

Of course, it's important to remember that ice sheets are complex and predicting how they will react is difficult - there's a wide range of possibilities. Perhaps the best way for scientists to predict how ice sheets will behave in the future is by learning how they behaved in the past, so one group of scientists traveled to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to learn its history.

Specifically, the researchers were interested in what happened to the ice sheet during the Pliocene epoch, the geologic period from about 5.4 million years ago to around 2.5 million. During the Pliocene, global temperatures were a few degrees warmer than they are today, which means this era is a good model for what our world might look like in a few decades, if climate change remains unchecked.

To determine just what happened to the ice sheet during this period, the researchers drilled deep into the rock beneath it. The scientists were looking for samples of certain isotopes, beryllium-10 and aluminum-26. These particular isotopes are created from the impact of cosmic rays from space. When these cosmic rays hit the atoms in the soil, they trigger atomic reactions that produce these isotopes.

The key fact here is that cosmic rays can't penetrate ice. If there was ice over the ground during the Pliocene, the cosmic rays wouldn't have reached the ground and these isotopes shouldn't be present in the soil. But if the ice sheet melted significantly, the researchers would find higher levels of these isotopes.
...

"Based on this evidence from the Pliocene, today's current carbon dioxide levels are not enough to destabilize the land-based ice on the Antarctic continent," said study author Jeremy Shakun.

Full story here

Related:
Sorry, Warmunists: 99.989% of the Antarctic ice sheet didn't melt!


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The whole gist of the paper:

In the end, the researchers found only trace amounts of the isotopes, suggesting that the ice sheet was present throughout the entire Pliocene.

That ain't no suggestion... that's a demonstration!

What's demonstrated is that an ice sheet, cap or some glaciers have been continuously covering Antarctica for the last 8 million years! *

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0155-6


* ... that should give an idea of how old the "Piri Reis" maps are... unless a previous version of a ground penetrating radar or some sort of Lidar was used to make it... you know, like some specialized remote viewer...


PS: Considering the "Climate Change"/"Global Warming" slant of the article, there is no wondering as to who butters that research's slice of bread...

[Hervé]

Arctic sea ice thicker now than in 1955

by Robert June 19, 2018

And yet, and yet, CO2 levels were far lower than they are today.

According to a new paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research, the observed mean thickness of the sea ice in the region north of (Arctic) Svalbard was substantially thinner (0.94 m) in 1955 than it has been in recent years (~1.6 m, 2015/2017).

Probably won’t see this in the lame stream media.

http://notrickszone.com/2018/06/18/observational-evidence-reveals-regional-arctic-sea-ice-was-thinner-in-1955-than-in-2015-17/

https://www.sott.net/article/388629-Study-Arctic-sea-ice-is-thicker-now-than-it-was-in-1955

Graph Source: Rösel et al., 2018

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley....2/2017JC012865

[onawah]

Climate Panic
Published on June 25, 2018
Many hyperlinks in the article at:
http://drsircus.com/world-news/clima...fcec9628be1e56

In ancient history the entire earth froze over almost annihilating all life. Fortunately, we are not facing such a disaster, but we have climate panic non the less. Here is the panic: ‘Utterly Terrifying’: ‘Study Affirms Feedback Loop Fears as Surging Antarctica Ice Loss Tripled in Last Five Years.’ Really?

The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at a faster rate than at any previously recorded time, according to a comprehensive new study. Who can argue with a comprehensive new study? The planet’s largest ice sheet is now losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year ― a threefold increase from less than a decade ago. The melting is happening so fast that it could cause sea levels to rise 6 inches by the end of the century, the study projects. How many times have we heard about catastrophic sea level rises in the last ten years and how many times has the media reported on scientists who say that is a lot of garbage? There is no sea level rise of any significance.

Funny they say this with such panic when it was only recently that NASA and others were reporting on massive increases in ice in Antarctica. In fact, it was only this past January that we read the headlines, ‘Huge snowfall increases over Antarctica could counter sea level rise, scientists say.’ Scientists have found large increases in snow accumulation in a vast region of eastern Antarctica, a trend that, if it continues or becomes more widespread, could lessen the ice sheet’s contribution to sea level rise and mitigate one of the most feared consequences of climate change. The study was conducted by scientists from NASA and several other institutions.

Four years ago NASA published Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum, saying, “Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s. The upward trend in the Antarctic, however, is only about a third of the magnitude of the rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean,” which is not happening. To the contrary, as we will see below, Artic sea ice is on the increase.

The recent series of high-ice-extent minima is part of a remarkable recent uptick in extent year-round for Antarctica, dominated by extensive ice in both the Weddell Sea (south of Africa) and the Ross Sea (south of New Zealand). Sea ice in the eastern Weddell Sea presently extends several hundred kilometers further north and east of its typical extent, while ice extent in the Ross Sea is presently near average.

Antarctic ice floes extended further than ever recorded this southern winter, confounding the world’s most-trusted climate models. “It’s not expected,” says Professor John Turner, a climate expert at the British Antarctic Survey. “The world’s best 50 models were run and 95% of them have Antarctic sea ice decreasing over the past 30 years.” These are the same computer models that global warming hysterics base their entire belief systems on.

Dr. Benny Peiser, from the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) said, "Global sea ice is at a record high, another key indicator that something is working in the opposite direction of what was predicted." Though we are hearing constant reports of ice melting and oceans rising the truth is Arctic sea ice extent is now higher than 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2011. Ted Maksym, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, conducted a study in which he sent an underwater robot into the depths of the Antarctic sea to measure the ice. His results contradicted previous assumptions made by scientists and showed that the ice is actually much thicker than has been predicted over the last 20 years.

The Martians are Coming, and the Ice is Melting
At the North Pole, where it was predicted that the ice would be gone by now again we see what fools the elite and their wholly owned press play us for. In reality the Arctic sea-ice volume is the greatest it has been in 4 years. At the rate it’s going, because of global cooling, it could soon be the greatest in at last 14 years. The black line on the chart below shows current Arctic sea-ice volume. Note that it is greater than in 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and is on track to break the 2004 to 2014 mean.



This volume graph suggests there is 4500 km³ more ice this year than last year.

And here is more on global warming from the recent past
“The Greenland Ice Sheet is gaining near record amounts of ice this year,” says Tony Heller. Temperatures on the Greenland Ice Sheet have been extremely cold, and broke the all-time record for Northern Hemisphere July cold on July 4, at -33C. (-27.4F) Despite all evidence to the contrary, government scientists insist on believing fake GRACE data which shows almost all of Greenland losing ice,” says Heller. “These are criminals, not scientists. How much ice will melt, I wonder, at minus 33 degrees?”

Crisis in Climate Science
We have a crisis in climate science that is so bad that we need to start paying special attention to how commercial interests are corrupting scientists. Climate science is not the only area that is corrupted. Medical science, we already know from insiders, is not worth the paper its printed on. There is hardly a study that comes from pharmaceutical companies (that the FDA accepts) that is honest scientific work. This kind of deception easily kills a hundred thousand people a year.

What will be the price in lives that comes from climate deception? It is hard to tell so early in the climate change game that is being played out in the media and in certain scientists’ minds. As the world cools we have a shipload of fools crying about how warm it is, how the poles are melting, the sky is falling, and all climate deniers are racists. The only thing we can be sure of is that the climate is changing as it has always changed throughout all of earths history.

I have read stories almost everyday for almost ten years that all point to one conclusion, politicians have sold their souls and their minds to a grand deception that has them and many of us believing in as big a lie as the world is flat and is the center of the solar system.

Recent News from the Ground
A couple of days from the official start of winter in Peru, 604 people have died of pneumonia due to the low temperatures, according to the Ministry of Health (Minsa). Those who died included more than 400 older adults and 72 children under the age of five. In some areas, such as San Antonio de Putinas in the highlands of Puno, thermometers have dropped to 15 degrees Celsius below zero. We do not read news like this in the mainstream media.

There are those who are working to pass laws that will harshly punish any disagreement with "current scientific evidence" about vaccines, climate science and medicine in general. We are on the verge or already far into a new dark age where right is wrong and wrong is right. We live in an era where just to assume something is enough to validate its truth. We have been told its warmer now than at any other time in recent history, the ice is melting, to sea is rising so too many people just assume its true.

For all those who still believe in manmade global warming take a look at a recent article in the Wall Street Journal showing how wrong the global warming scare mongers got it with their predictions. And yes we still have snow falling in June in the Continental United States, record cold in Australia driving up electrical prices to 130 times normal, wild temperature swings in Brazil, the highest winter deaths in Scotland in 30 years and record cold in Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.

Its Summer
Ukraine – Snowfall in the Carpathian Mountains. Sub-zero temperatures on the second day of summer. Snow has fallen in the mountainous regions of Ivano-Frankivsk region. The thickness of snow cover is 0-13 mm. According to Volodymyr Fryhovych, head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Center for Hydrometeorology, “Tomorrow we expect a drop in the temperature in the mountain regions to 1-2 degrees below zero”. On the second day of summer, snow fell in Poland! according to Severe Weather Europe at Facebook and kids actually had to be evacuated from summer camp.

Many still cling to the manmade global warming story and believe climate Armageddon is upon us though warming not cooling. One can read their almost convincing publications everyday in the media so one really has to look deep into the matter to learn the truth.

Dr. Mark Sircus
AC., OMD, DM (P)
Director International Medical Veritas Association
Doctor of Oriental and Pastoral Medicine