Antarctic ice build-up confounds computer models.
The levels of Antarctic sea-ice last week hit an all-time high – confounding climate change computer models which say it should be in decline.
America’s National Snow And Ice Data Center, which is funded by Nasa, revealed that ice around the southern continent covers about 16million sq km, more than 2.1 million more than is usual for the time of year.
It is by far the highest level since satellite observations on which the figures depend began in 1979. In statistical terms, the extent of the ice cover is hugely significant.
So how are the global warmists responding to the crumbling of their scientific paradigm? The same as always: cut off debate.
BBC to cut air time for climate warming skeptics
]Institute for Policy cancels professor’s fellowship after he questions global warming
Vatican silences scientist for challenging “settled science”.
Okay, the last incident occurred in 1610, when Galileo refused to accept church teachings on how the universe was ordered, but the pattern is the same: the more an authority is vested in a core belief, the more strenuously it silences dissent. Eventually, that no longer works.
UPDATE: NASA admits: US temperature has cooled over past decade.
Responding to widespread criticism that its temperature station readings were corrupted by poor citing issues and suspect adjustments, NOAA established a networkof 114 pristinely sited temperature stations spread out fairly uniformly throughout the United States. Because the network, known as the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), is so uniformly and pristinely situated, the temperature data require no adjustments to provide an accurate nationwide temperature record. USCRN began compiling temperature data in January 2005. Now, nearly a decade later, NOAA has finally made the USCRN temperature readings available.
According to the USCRN temperature readings, U.S. temperatures are not rising at all – at least not since the network became operational 10 years ago. Instead, the United States has cooled by approximately 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is more than half of the claimed global warming of the twentieth century.
