The Obama Administration declassified Bush-era military photos showing the dramatic effects of climate change. The linked article features these two particularly horrifying pictures.
These satellite images of Barrow, Alaska, show that in the summer of 2005 there was still a lot of ice off the coast while just one year later the water is completely free of it. You can enlarge the images at the link above.
The Guardian implies that the Bush Administration hid this evidence by classifying it, per their headline, but don’t go on to support that claim in the article.
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From the National Climatic Data Center, 16 July 2009
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So, yes, June 2009 was cooler than average for Denver, Grand Junction, and other locales in the SW US, but it’s called global for a reason.
But, if that wasn’t enough, there is this ominous note:
If we are supposed to be alarmed by the Barrow image, then why can we not take comfort in local temps being cooler? Both are just local snapshots of global climate change, no?
As for the claims that we are having the warmest months ever, it really depends on who is doing the measuring and how they are doing it. Satellite data do not reflect the warming trend that surface monitoring stations are seeing. There is plenty of reason to believe that heat island effects are distorting surface temps and creating the so called warming trend. Some discussion of this at http://www.climate-skeptic.com…
And finally, I love when el Nino comes to town – makes for a very pleasant summer with a watering bill near zero.
Arctic sea ice is a reflection of large scale trends, not merely a “local” snapshot. Did you follow any of the links which provide a graphical overview of how local short term phenomena might not be typical of global long term trends?
Meanwhile, you ought to get yourself some updated satellite data. After flaws were corrected in the earlier data (as satellites lose altitude they measure different parts of the atmosphere; each satellite is essentially a unique sensor that is not necessarily calibrated to previous or subsequent satellites; etc) the “discrepancy” you noted disappeared.
I find it interesting that people consider a few years worth of data from a few uncorrected sensing devices (early satellite data) trumps 100+ years of data collected from thousands of calibrated instruments.