For many years, climate fraudsters have been using the 1977 PDO shift as cover for claiming that Alaska is warming.
Considering just a linear trend can mask some important variability characteristics in the time series. The figure at right shows clearly that this trend is non-linear: a linear trend might have been expected from the fairly steady observed increase of CO2 during this time period. The figure shows the temperature departure from the long-term mean (1949-2009) for all stations. It can be seen that there are large variations from year to year and the 5-year moving average demonstrates large increase in 1976. The period 1949 to 1975 was substantially colder than the period from 1977 to 2009, however since 1977 little additional warming has occurred in Alaska with the exception of Barrow and a few other locations.
The party is over though …..
Snow burries Valdez and Cordova; Nome is cold
Records are being broken or challenged by blizzards in Prince William Sound and cold temperatures in Nome.
BY CASEY GROVE AND MIKE DUNHAM; ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
Published: 01/07/12 2:11 am | Updated: 01/07/12 2:11 am
0 CommentsRecords are being broken or challenged by blizzards in Prince William Sound and cold temperatures in Nome.
A glut of snow during the first week of 2012 choked roads in Valdez and Cordova and collapsed warehouse roofs in both of the Prince William Sound cities, which were still digging out Friday as the snowfall threatened to continue into the weekend.
According to the National Weather Service, Valdez received 42 inches in the most recent storm, for a total of more than 18 feet this winter and a snow depth of an even 6 feet. Cordova saw about the same, the weather service says, and forecasts for the weekend indicate more is on the way.
Steven, you recently posted about the pool of water north of Australia. Showing almost all of the measured sea level rise there. I’ve used every search word I can think of and can’t find it…
….do you remember which post that was?
Three new poster children that they mention about every 10 minutes if you watch the weather channel.
Poster Child #1 It’s been such a warm winter. Yes, and people are loving it.
Poster Child #2 Last year, too much snow in the Sierra. This year, too little snow in the Sierra. Both are caused by climate change and Global Weirding. Snowfall was always normal prior to 350 PPM.
Poster Child #3 Twelve billion dollar disasters in 2011. Unprecedented! Probably so, unless you adjust for population increase and inflation.
Here is Fairbanks. Once you take the cycle out, the trend is negative, though the acceleration (time^2) factor shows slightly positive. Added together, the effect is about zero, as you can see…
http://naturalclimate.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tempsinesolverfairbanks.png?w=1024&h=696
Big Fat Acid Head Poster Child bites the dust, or maybe the clams:
http://joannenova.com.au/2012/01/scripps-blockbuster-ocean-acidification-happens-all-the-time-naturally/