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MELTDOWN MYTH: Antarctic ice growing is just the first EVIDENCE global warming is NOT REAL...This article, written by James Delingpole, a denialist, in the UK Express, is crap. As an introduction, it uses a non-plausible composite picture of a polar bear, a couple of penguins and a seal with the caption: New satellite images show Antarctica is actually growing. First there are no polar bears in Antarctica and there are no penguins in the Arctic. One could accept that this is an artistic licence, but when it is attached to what is supposed to be a defining moment against global warming, one needs to make sure the information, including visuals, are super-accurate. In fact Delingpole writes shit. He has written denialist shit for yonks and is one of an army of deluded writers on the payroll of major denialist corporations, via the UKExpress pay-office. The phenomenon here described by the rat-sheet that is the UKExpress, is fully explained in my article on the Antarctica conundrum. And while "the ice" is growing in some sectors of Antarctica, huge amount of it is melting somewhere else. The surface of extended ice is actually in correlation with the amount of warming. There is also a phenomenon that while the extend of ice can increase, the ice is thinning from below. Read: the antarctica conundrum
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the planet is warming up...
GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL:
Here is a selection of events happening now:
BRYANT PARK, Manhattan (WABC) --Congrats, Big Apple! We've broken the record for the warmest Christmas in New York City history.
Temperature readings in Central Park reached 66 degrees at 12:31 a.m. Friday, breaking the previous record of 64 degrees set in 1982.
On Christmas Eve, New Yorkers in shorts and tube tops turned a winter morning into a summer day, embracing temperatures that soared into the 70s.
"Sometimes global warming is awesome," Meg Roedling said as she ran through Brooklyn Bridge Park in shorts and a T-shirt.
A noontime temperature in Central Park of 72 degrees Thursday crushed the previous record of 63 degrees, set in 1996. The 72 degrees was only 3 degrees cooler than it was on July Fourth.
High temperature records also tumbled across upstate New York as Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse topped 60 degrees. Albany's 58-degree temperature Thursday morning broke the record of 57, set in 1941.
A line stretched out the door in the late afternoon at a frozen yogurt shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
It was hardly traditional Christmas Eve fare, but "the weather made my friend want to get it," Talia Raven said as she waited in the weird warmth.
http://abc7ny.com/weather/surfers-hit-beach-in-queens-as-nyc-has-warmest-christmas-ever/1134498/
It was the day the floodwaters inexorably advanced across the Pennines, leaving much of the north of England sodden and beleaguered. From Greater Manchester in the north-west to parts of North Yorkshire some 50 miles to the east, Boxing Day 2015 will be remembered as the day the rains came.
In Todmorden, in West Yorkshire’s Calder Valley, Rebecca Marshall was last night facing the grim prospect of having to abandon her home as the floodwaters slowly rose around her house. The incessant rains had left the little town cut off after all the roads in and out were flooded.
By late afternoon the waters were “inches” from the top of the local defence wall and Marshall was stuck inside her home without electricity. Then floodwaters started to rise through her floorboards. “At the moment in our house it’s ankle-deep,” she said.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/26/flooding-havoc-britai...
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About half the community of Daly River (Naiyu) have spent the night in Darwin's Foskey Pavilion after being evacuated by helicopter and bus due to flood waters.
The remaining 234 people will be evacuated from the community today.
Acting Senior Sergeant Dean Barrett said the residents would stay in Darwin for as long as necessary.
"The length of time I am unsure of, it just depends on when they can return to their communities," he said.
"Obviously the damage has got to be assessed and other issues but obviously at some point in time they'll return to their country, where they want to live."
Andy Warton, Director Northern Territory Emergency Services said the river continued to rise, and the evacuation was labour-intensive due to the small capacity of helicopters.
"We're working very closely with the Bureau of Meteorology, and certainly overnight the river has continued to rise," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-27/200-daly-river-residents-spend-the...
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A stocktake of waterbirds in eastern Australia has shown the lowest breeding level on record.
The annual aerial survey, conducted by the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of NSW, confirmed a dramatic long-term decline in the number of waterbirds.
Director Richard Kingsford said that over 33 years of counting, average numbers had fallen more than 60 per cent.
The trend continued in 2015 with a further drop compared to the previous three-to-five-year period.
"This is the second lowest number of waterbirds we've seen in that 33-year period and it's symptomatic of the real impacts of this drought that's occurring across the eastern half of the continent," Professor Kingsford said.
The survey covered all the major rivers, lakes and wetlands from Queensland down through New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin and the Riverina.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-27/a-stocktake-of-waterbirds-in-easte...
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The tornado destroyed or damaged 403 homes over a seven-county area, Flynn said. In addition, flooding left 50 homes uninhabitable and closed 40 roads in Monroe County, which got 10 to 12 inches (about 25 to 30 cm) of rain, he said.
The tornadoes also killed six people in Tennessee and one other in Arkansas, bringing the three-state total to 17. A twister in Birmingham, Alabama, late on Friday afternoon damaged several homes, uprooted trees and caused a handful of minor injuries, police and weather officials reported.
Alabama and Mississippi will get another round of rain on Monday night, said Evan Duffey, meteorologist for AccuWeather.
http://news.yahoo.com/stormy-weather-expected-u-post-holiday-travel-1552...
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A tropical depression that has weakened into a low pressure area brought rains to the central Visayas islands and Mindanao, the main southern island, according to the government weather station.
Cold monsoon winds blowing from the north-east brought rains to Luzon, the main northern island, where large farming communities have been submerged in mostly waist-deep floods from typhoon Melor, which hit at the start of the week.
Areas inundated by Melor have barely recovered from floods brought by typhoon Koppu in October.
“Almost the entire Philippines is experiencing rains. More floods are possible,” state weather forecaster Robert Badrina said on Saturday. “We expect the rains to peak today. The weather will start to improve tomorrow.”
President Benigno Aquino declared a state of national calamity to “hasten the rescue, recovery, relief and rehabilitation efforts”, according to his spokesman, Herminio Coloma.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/19/philippines-storm-death-tol...
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Tuesday is the winter solstice and temperatures are expected to reach 16C - compare that to the 18C recorded exactly six months ago in London.
Meanwhile, Scotland is balmier than parts of Spain, with temperatures in Edinburgh creeping into the low teens as Madrid struggles to reach double figures.
The story is different for northern Spain, where the unusually warm weather and lack of rain has sparked more than 130 wildfires.
Elsewhere, high temperatures across the Alps have left some resorts, including in Austria and Switzerland, lacking in snow.
Even the use of artificial snow has proved difficult in places because it is impossible to stop the snow melting.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/12/nature-state-confusion-europe-heat...
careful, they might fool you...
Apart from rabid denialists trying hard to tell you fibs about global warming, the internet and other electronic information platforms cannot be trusted:
Sometimes you have to do things by halves, they suggested.
now for the real bad news...
The ferocious storm cell that spawned deadly tornadoes in the US over the weekend is expected to develop into what meteorologists call a "bomb cyclone", steering exceptionally warm air over the Arctic and more flooding rains into the UK.
One widely used computer model, the Global Forecast System, is predicting the storm to drop pressure levels sharply by Tuesday night, easily exceeding the "bomb cyclone" criteria of at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, according to the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang.
"We've probably never seen weather like what's being predicted for a vast region stretching from the North Atlantic to the North Pole and on into the broader Arctic this coming week," said Robert Scribbler, an environmental blogger.
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The storm will also drag warm air over the high Arctic. with the North Pole temperatures likely to climb to 1-2 degrees above zero on Wednesday - or 41-42 degrees above average for this time of year...
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/bomb-cyclone-to-spike-arctic-temperatures-add-to-uks-flooding-woes--20151228-glw1u8.html#ixzz3vk28Ff4a
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