Manitoba Gets...

...some of that global warming:

Storm Rips Through South Central Manitoba

"There was golf ball sized hail and crop damage reported near Roseisle."

One Word...

..."hail".

Ain't no climate change around here.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

GLOBAL WARMING CULT BAFFLED AS ANTARCTIC ICE CONTINUES TO GROW

Why is Antarctic sea ice at record levels despite global warming?

"While Arctic sea ice continues to decline, Antarctic levels are confounding the world’s most trusted climate models with record highs for the third year running."

Global Warming Wreaks Havoc On Antarctic Research Stations

"And by wreaking havoc, I mean there’s so much sea ice around the continent that access to the research stations has been curtailed. In fact, one station had to be airlifted a year’s worth of supplies since ships could not break through the ice."

Should Be Interesting

Oldest ice core: Finding a 1.5 million-year record of Earth's climate

And for the understatement of the year award:

Scripps says Arctic Sea Ice may return, forecasts of loss based on ‘oversimplified arguments’

===================UPDATE===================
Is it just me, or are the global warmanistas taking a sound beating. They seem to have been silenced.

Incontrovertable Evidence...

...of global warming:

Icebound: 10-15 ships stranded in frozen Lake Superior

US, Canadian crews clearing path through Lake Superior ice

Icy Traffic Jam On Lake Superior Has 18 Ships Stuck

Just When I...

...think I should leave this global warming/cooling thing alone, along comes news like this:

Weather statement issued for Halifax, extreme-cold warnings in effect for parts of Nova Scotia

Toronto sees record low temperature

Texas, Louisiana brace for ice as bitter winter drags on

Canadian Coast Guard Works To Free Ship

"The Canadian Coast Guard is working to break free the motor vessel Arthur M Anderson, which is beset in ice near Conneaut Harbour. The Griffon, stationed in Prescott, is a 234-foot, multi-mission, medium icebreaker.

The Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, a 140-foot, ice-breaking tug, home-ported in Detroit, had previously attempted to assist the vessel, but encountered ice too thick for it to break." (Emphasis mine)

Canadian ship frees freighter from icy Lake Erie off NE Ohio

Shipping freighter stuck in frozen Lake Erie freed after five days


Coldest Night of the Year raises awareness of homeless in Edmonton, across Canada
91 locations across Canada hosting Coldest Night of the Year Walks

Windchill offsets warmer temps today

Under Thick Coating, an Icebreaking Ship Uncovers the Hudson

Canadian Coast Guard coming in to help free stuck freighter

Canadian Coast Guard called in to help free trapped ship

"The Anderson was en route to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, when it was beset. It's not clear how long the Anderson has been trapped, but the Bristol Bay has been battling the ice for so long, it ran out of food. 45 kg of food was airdropped to the cutter on Thursday night.

The Arthur M. Anderson has a Canadian connection: It was the last ship to make contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald, before it was lost on Lake Superior in 1975.

It's not the only trapped ship. The Windsor Star reports the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley is working to free a ship stuck in the St. Clair River.

That ice isn't getting any thinner. At 96 per cent, Lake Erie is currently the most iced-over of the Great Lakes, and has more ice cover now than it did at the same time last year."

The Power of Nature

That's What I Thought

Polar Ice Not Melting, But Global Warming Story Is

""The North and South Poles are 'not melting,'" the British Express reported on Christmas.

"In fact," the Express said in its coverage of Maksym's finding, "the poles are 'much more stable' than climate scientists once predicted and could even be much thicker than previously thought."

Remember those words "previously thought." In the future we will be seeing them a lot more in reference to the continued unraveling of the global warming fable. In the meantime, kudos to the Express for publishing what the mainstream American media refuse to report."

Related: Greenland Ice Melt Geothermal, Not Manmade

Ooops!!!

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

How did that happen??

He's Mean!

I must admit, though, I was laughing myself.  I wanted to get a pail of sand the make it safer.

Please, please, please, please, please,,,

...I hope this is not true:

New data backs 'ice age' prediction

"As the United Nations prepares for its 2014 Climate Summit in New York this month with an agenda to advance a new carbon-emissions regulatory agreement to supersede the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the Russian scientist who correctly predicted the lack of global warming over the past 19 years has gained new scientific support for his belief that Earth is in the beginning of a prolonged ice age. (Emphasis mine)
A new study from Lund University in Sweden, published Aug. 17 in Nature Geoscience, has reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age, the last so-called “global maximum” extending from 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. Analysis of trace elements in ice cores in Greenland and from cave formations in China indicates the growth and melting of a thick ice sheet stretching from the Arctic to northern Germany were related to variations in the sun’s UV radiation output.

“The study shows an unexpected link between solar activity and climate change. It shows both that changes in solar activity are nothing new and that solar activity influences the climate, especially on a regional level."

Maybe he's just trying to bolster the justification for the seizure of Crimea by the big boss in Moscow.

Contrast and compare:

Certainty Humans Are Driving Global Warming: New Study

Al Gore’s global-warming rhetoric is put on ice

Oops

Myth of arctic meltdown: Stunning satellite images show summer ice cap is thicker and covers 1.7million square kilometres MORE than 2 years ago...despite Al Gore's prediction it would be ICE-FREE by now

Al Gore could not be reached for comment.

Global Warming Called Off?

For a while, anyway:

Global warming slowdown 'could last another decade'

Has the Atlantic Ocean Stalled Global Warming?

Ummm. That's a wee bit of an old theory, known as the North Atlantic Oscillation. Read about it here.

But, damn it, they just can't let it go, even though they seem desperate to make the most absurd claims:

Will global warming trigger a new ice age?

World's Largest Ice Sheets Melting At Fastest Rate Ever Recorded

Oh really? And you were around the last time earth lost it's polar icecaps? But I guess you're right. That wasn't recorded. Why it was only a year ago they were up 50% in size:


Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice coverage up 50 percent!

Should be enough to tell you that climate, like so much in nature, is highly chaotic. You know, I am getting sick and tired of covering this, but it is becoming very, very comical, and we all could used a good laugh from time to time.

Zingers!!!

Warmists conveniently ignore ongoing (Lake) Superior icing conditions

Global Warming Strikes Again...

...Great Lakes ice currently highest amount for this late date; Superior could have ice still in June

Three Guesses

More victims of global warming:


Blue whale carcasses spotted on Newfoundland's southwest coast

Downtown Peace River floods

Which one will the warmanistas glom on to?

Answers:

1) Floods
2) Floods
3) Floods

ARRRRRRG

I went outside this morning to bring the garbage can in from the street (garbage pickup was yesterday morning, but it was too damned cold to step outside and retrieve it later in the day yesterday, and besides, conveniently, I had completely forgotten about it). Immediately upon stepping outside I realized I had closed the door but forgotten to unlock it first - so there I was stuck outside without the key. Thank God my sister lives in town and only 2 1/2 blocks away and thank God she has a spare key. So, off I went, trudging over to her place at 8:00 - 8:30 AM, on very, very slippery streets. It was like walking on smooth ice.

I managed to remain in an upright position, and, thankfully, found my brother-in-law at home when I got there. He gave me a much appreciated cup of java and the spare key and a ride back home. Anyway, I keep telling myself - spring is on the way, spring is on the way.

Thankfully, it's a bit warmer today.

Good One From El Steyn

Ice Everywhere, But No Hockey Sticks

"Antarctic ice is now at a 35-year high. But scientists are “baffled” by the planet’s stubborn refusal to submit to their climate models. Maybe the problem with Nobel fantasist Michael Mann’s increasingly discredited hockey stick is that he’s holding it upside down."

Of Course...

...we have to have our spring blizzard, don't we?

Just when you thought the interminable winter was almost over.

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Can't Really Tell...

...which side of the fence these scientists are on, but this should be interesting. But what's with the title? Ice cores MAY aid climate studies?

This has an aura of capitulation about it. At least the writers of the article aren't pushing any foregone conclusions. It will be interesting to see what results from their study.

Which reminds me, I'll have a new entry about Ian Plimer's book Heaven and Earth pretty soon as well as one about my very strange reading habits.