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- April 2013 Alaska Weather Summary: Precipitation, temperature and snowfall records set in April (SitNews, May 23, 2013)

- Alaska Continues Its Record Long, Snowy Winter (Heartlander Magazine, May 20, 2013):

Anchorage, Alaska set a record last week for its longest snow season on record. The city also set a record for its lowest May 17 maximum temperature.

Global warming activists often claim Alaska is among the places most negatively affected by warming temperatures. In his movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore claimed warming temperatures are melting the Alaska tundra and destroying homes and infrastructure. Just last week, the media trumpeted a sensationalist article by Suzanne Goldenberg of the Guardian claiming warming temperatures are poised to create Alaskan climate refugees. The truth is an entirely different story.

Spring 2013 has been remarkably cold and snowy in Alaska. Indeed, cold temperatures and excessively abundant snowfall have dogged the state throughout the past several years.

“Forget global warming, Alaska is headed for an ice age,” the Alaska Dispatch reported December 23.

“In the first decade since 2000, the 49th state cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit,” the Dispatch observed.

Not even summer provided a break from Alaska’s ongoing record cold last year.

“After a record-breaking winter, we are now headed for one of the coldest months of July on record. And it has some Alaskans thinking it may be time to leave the great land,” Alaska television station KTVA reported last July16.

“The 90-day period from May 1 to July 29 saw the lowest daily high temperatures on average in Juneau since officials began keeping records in 1943, according to National Weather Service data,” the Juneau Empire reported last July 31.

Tags: Alaska, Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, Science, Winter

- Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Blaming Turbulent Weather On Global Warming Is Extreme Nonsense (Forbes, May 26, 2013):

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) wasted no crisis knowing what and whom to blame following the devastating tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma. Republicans caused it to happen through anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming. “When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas.”

So what about all that hot air? Is it possibly coming from none other than the senator himself? Well-respected meteorologist Joe Bastardi believes so, and will explain why.

Mr. Bastardi’s reputation for bold and accurate weather forecasts has landed him interviews on numerous major television programs, including Fox News Live, the O’Reilly Factor, Your World With Neil Cavuto, and Imus in the Morning, to name but a few. Many companies across a multitude of industries use his analytical services which correlate similarities between current and historical weather patterns to predict likely developments. Continue reading »

Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global Warming, Joe Bastardi, Meteorology, Science

- Russian Scientists: ‘We Could Face Cooling Period For 200-250 Years’ (Climate Change Dispatch, April 29, 2013):

Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless. –The Voice of Russia, 22 April 2013Evidently, solar activity is on the decrease. The 11-year cycle doesn’t bring about considerable climate change – only 1-2%. The impact of the 200-year cycle is greater – up to 50%. In this respect, we could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years. The period of low solar activity could start in 2030-2040 but it won’t be as pervasive as in the late 17th century. –Yuri Nagovitsyn, Pulkovo Observatory St.Petersburg, The Voice of Russia, 22 April 2013

“There are no grounds to claim that global warming will continue till the end of this century,” said academician Vladimir Kotlyakov, head of the Institute of Geography at the Russian Academy of Sciences. “Early signs of cooling are already there and the trend may pick up in coming years.” “Human activity and industrial discharges do have a great impact on environment, but forces of nature are far more powerful,” said the scientist, who has studied Antarctic ice cores that are hundreds of thousand years old. “Climate moves in natural cycles of warmer and colder, drier and more humid times.” –Vladimir Radyuhin, The Hindu, 22 April 2013

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, NASA, Science, Solar Cycle

- The Great Green Con no. 1: The hard proof that finally shows global warming forecasts that are costing you billions were WRONG all along (Daily Mail, March 16, 2013):

No, the world ISN’T getting warmer (as you may have noticed). Now we reveal the official data that’s making scientists suddenly change their minds about climate doom. So will eco-funded MPs stop waging a green crusade with your money? Well… what do YOU think?

The Mail on Sunday today presents irrefutable evidence that official predictions of global climate warming have been catastrophically flawed.

The graph on this page blows apart the ‘scientific basis’ for Britain reshaping its entire economy and spending billions in taxes and subsidies in order to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. These moves have already added £100 a year to household energy bills. Continue reading »

Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, Science

- Bitter cold snap grips China (UPI, Dec 22, 2012):

BEIJING — Temperatures in Beijing are predicted to drop into the single digits during weekend — the coldest it’s been in almost 30 years, forecasters said.

Most of China will see temperatures drop between 3 and 4.5 Fahrenheit degrees over the weekend, but northern areas will see temperatures drop as much as 9 degrees, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Winter

- New paper confirms the climate was warmer 1000 years ago (Whats Up With That, Oct 17, 2012)

Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, Science

- Sun may soon have four poles, say researchers (Asahi Shimbun, April 20, 2012):

The sun may be entering a period of reduced activity that could result in lower temperatures on Earth, according to Japanese researchers.

Officials of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation said on April 19 that the activity of sunspots appeared to resemble a 70-year period in the 17th century in which London’s Thames froze over and cherry blossoms bloomed later than usual in Kyoto.

In that era, known as the Maunder Minimum, temperatures are estimated to have been about 2.5 degrees lower than in the second half of the 20th century.

The Japanese study found that the trend of current sunspot activity is similar to records from that period.

The researchers also found signs of unusual magnetic changes in the sun. Normally, the sun’s magnetic field flips about once every 11 years. In 2001, the sun’s magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere, flipped to the south.

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, Maunder Minimum, Sun, Sunspot activity, Sunspot cycles

From the article:

“It’s based on the fact that the weather and climate are controlled by activity from the Sun, and its modulation by the orbit of the Moon,” he says. “It’s a solar-magnetic-lunar system.”

- The weatherman caught in a media storm (Independent, April 21, 2012):

Rogue forecaster brands Met Office ‘lying scum’ after spat over his latest apocalyptic warning

It’s surely one of the more sensational weather forecasts of the last few years – the prediction that next month will be the coldest May in Britain for a century.

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, Piers Corbyn, Science, U.K., Weather

- NASA Satellite Finds Earth’s Clouds are Getting Lower (NASA, February 21, 2012):

Earth’s clouds got a little lower by around one per cent a year on average during the first decade of this century.

That’s the finding by a new NASA-funded university study based on satellite data. The results have potential implications for future global climate.

Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analysed the first 10 years of global cloud-top height measurements (from March 2000 to February 2010) from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft.

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Global Warming, NASA, Science

- Unusual Cold Threatens Russian Fruit Crop (Radio Free Europe/radioLiberty):

Russian agricultural officials say the abnormally cold temperatures are certain to have an adverse effect on this year’s harvest.

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Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Russia, Winter