Global Warming? Lake Superior Will Freeze Over this Winter

Global Warming? Lake Superior Will Freeze Over this Winter

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
February 12, 2014

How to explain record cold temperatures? Well, global warming has “paused,” according to warmist scientists.

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They cite a study published in the Nature Climate Change journal. It says increased trade winds in the central and eastern areas of the Pacific have forced warm surface water deep within the ocean and that has reduced the amount of heat released into the atmosphere.
The warming pause was taken up by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It declared in its 2013 climate report that the Earth is going through a solar minimum and the oceans are sucking up most of the heat.
Not to worry, though. “This hiatus could persist for much of the present decade if the trade wind trends continue, however rapid warming is expected to resume once the anomalous wind trends abate,” the Nature Climate Change report states.
Here’s another anomaly. For the first times in decades, Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world, is predicted to freeze over this winter. A sheet of ice will form over the surface of the three-quadrillion-gallon lake. The mean thickness of the ice, reports the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, will be over 10 inches.
According to Jay Austin, associate professor at the Large Lakes Observatory in Duluth, Minnesota, the ice will produce an “air conditioning” effect this summer. “Typically, the lake will start warming up in late June, but it will be August before we see that this year,” Austin told CNSNews.com.
In September, there was a 29 percent increase in the amount of ocean covered with ice over the previous year. An unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe stretched from the Canadian islands to the north shores of Russia, The Telegraph reported. The Northwest Passage, the route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago that links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was clogged with ice all last year.
And then somebody at the IPCC leaked a report last year that had scientists reversing their convictions on global warming. Some now believe we’re in for a period of global cooling, not warming.
For now, it looks like civilization will not have to be dismantled to save us from the threat of “human-induced” global warming. Instead, civilization will benefit from more efficient ways to keep humans warm as the “hiatus” continues.

This article was posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 9:17 am

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Record Freezing Weather Puts Serious Crimp In Global Warming Argument

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Posted 02/11/2014 05:36 PM ET

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Just as heat signals global warming, so does extreme cold.

Junk Science: The climate change lobby wants us all to know that this winter's ongoing record cold streak and snowstorms in the Midwest and Northeast in no way refute what Barack Obama now calls the scientific "fact" of global warming.
The greens have even had a field day lampooning Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, who recently merely suggested the cold spell "has to make everyone question ... whether global warming was ever real." The Washington Post pounced on that statement and protested that the "global warming deniers" are "cherry-picking the data" to refute the heating of the planet.
Of course, global warming alarmists would never cherry-pick data to make their point, would they?
We ask because we keep hearing news reports of how the terrible drought in California is another flashing alarm of a warming planet. The drought is "why it's important for us to take climate change seriously," U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack sermonizes.
So let's get this logic straight: The cold spell doesn't refute global warming, but the drought confirms it. Hmmm.
The left is guilty of such logical gyrations all the time. A year and a half ago, when Superstorm Sandy wreaked its devastation on coastal Northeastern states, the link between that killer storm and global climate change was said to be nearly unassailable.
No less a climate expert than New York Gov. Mario Cuomo remarked that "anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns I think is denying reality." What does he think about the weather now?
The day after Sandy's nearly $100 billion damage to homes, stores and infrastructure, Rep. Henry Waxman of California lashed out at his Republican House colleagues who have "pretended that climate change is not happening" and that "the consequences can be dismissed without concern."
Environmental groups started peddling the idea that from now on we should name hurricanes and superstorms after prominent global warming "deniers" — Hurricane Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and so on.
Except hurricanes have been on the decline for the last several years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Not one hit the coastal U.S. in 2009, 2010 or 2013. Tornadoes are also no more severe than usual. New research suggests that the polar ice caps may be growing, not shrinking, after several years of melting — good news for polar bears.
What does all this prove about global climate change? Not much. One week or one month or even 50 years of weather patterns are the blink of an eye in terms of the Earth's temperature.
Perhaps one reason global-warming skeptics are growing in number is precisely because the left engages in such flimsy science based on short-term trends to prove the apocalypse is irrefutable and imminent. Instead of engaging in scientific debate and countering the hefty contrary evidence, they speak with the unwarranted and absolute certainty of zealots.
What we do know is that the Earth's climate is changing — as it has for millions of years. And let's show some humility: We don't really know how much it is changing or why. And it's a pretty good bet that governments that can't balance their budgets, can't deliver the mail without losing money and run failing schools are the last place to look for solutions.
For now we'll simply advise Americans up north and in the Midwest to bundle up, stay out of the cold and hope for a warming trend.

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Double standards have no place in science or public policy.

The warming left would have you believe that the drought in California is climate change (Emergency! Ban and regulate everything!), while this season's brutally cold and snowy U.S. winter is just weather (nothing to see here folks, move along).

"So let's get this logic straight: The cold spell doesn't refute global warming, but the drought confirms it. Hmmm."

The facts? They are both weather. Temperature fluctuated too little during the 20th century to cause either. Temperature has not risen during the 21st century.

Share the facts and level the playing field.

The cold reminds us that weather happens... Naturally.

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CNBC Host: Al Gore a ‘Charlatan,’ and a ‘Villain’

By Sean Long | February 11, 2014 | 15:32

Most of the media may be convinced by Al Gore-style climate alarmism, but CNBC’s Joe Kernen isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
Joe Kernen, co-host of “Squawk Box” called the inclusion of Former Vice President Al Gore on CNBC’s list of “Top Leaders, Icons and Rebels” both “stupid” and “ludicrous.” His Feb. 11, comments came after fellow co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin suggested that CNBC ought to include Gore on their “First 25” list for his contribution to global warming awareness.
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Kernen went even further, suggesting that Gore would be included only if the list allowed for “charlatans and villains on there” and “as long as we put Ken Lay and some of the others."

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He added “Madoff’s got to be on there too,” although he clarified that he was not “equating” Gore to these criminals.
Bernie Madoff, a prominent hedge fund manager, was arrested in 2008 for a massive “Ponzi scheme” estimated at $50 billion dollars. In addition, Ken Lay was the CEO of Enron Corporation and was convicted of six counts of conspiracy and fraud in 2006 for his role in the company’s corrupt financial practices.
Kernen expressed skepticism in global warming and in its importance to the business community. He criticized climate change models, saying “at this point, the data is not going the models’ way.” In fact, even some climate alarmists have admitted that their models are failing.
He claimed that climate change isn’t even an important issue for many people, especially in the business community. Kernen said, “When you ask people the most important concerns that they have, there’s 15 of them above that. Are you sure that it’s paramount in everyone else’s mind?” He did not name the survey he was referring to.
Kernen is no stranger to making controversial statements bashing liberals. In September 2012, Kernen accused liberal economists Paul Krugman and Dean Baker of being “co-communists in a lot of different economic circles,” while also referring to Baker as an “idiot.”

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Global Warming Freezes Venice

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The Great Lakes are almost completely covered with ice

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In this Feb. 6, 2014 aerial photo is a view of Lake Huron looking south towards Port Huron, Mich., right, and Sarnia, Ont., left. This winter has been so bitterly cold for so long that the sprawling Great Lakes, which hold nearly one-fifth of the surface fresh water in the world, may freeze over for the first time in two decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

• In this Feb. 6, 2014 aerial photo is a view of Lake Huron looking south towards Port Huron, Mich., right, and Sarnia, Ont., left. This winter has been so bitterly cold for so long that the sprawling Great Lakes, which hold nearly one-fifth of the surface fresh water in the world, may freeze over for the first time in two decades. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
• In this Jan. 9, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard a convoy of Great Lakes cargo ships line up to follow an icebreaker on the St. Marys River, which links Lakes Superior and Huron. As of Feb. 13, 88 percent of the Great Lakes surface was frozen, according to the federal government?s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor. (AP Photo/Lt. David Lieberman)
• In this Dec. 26, 2013 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the icebreaker Mackinaw maintains a shipping lane on the St. Marys River linking Lakes Superior and Huron. It?s been so bitterly cold for so long in the Upper Midwest that the Great Lakes are almost completely covered with ice. The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94 percent of the lakes? surface was frozen. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard
• In this Jan. 10, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard are Great Lakes freighters Arthur M. Anderson, left, and James R. Barker, seen from the icebreaker Mackinaw, on the St. Marys River, which links Lakes Superior and Huron. The cutter Mackinaw has just finished escorting the Barker along the river and is preparing to break a trail in the ice for the Anderson. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Lt. David Lieberman)
• This Feb. 11, 2014 photo the pier and lighthouse at Lake Michigan?s Little Traverse Bay at Petoskey, Mich., is surrounded by thick ice. Nearly 88 percent of the Great Lakes? surface area has frozen over this winter, the most extensive ice-over in 20 years. (AP Photo/John Flesher)
• In this Feb. 7, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the icebreaker Katmai Bay escorts the lgo Steel with a load of road salt through the Straits of Mackinac. Sections of the lakes harden almost every winter keeping the Coast Guard?s fleet of nine icebreakers busy clearing paths for vessels hauling essential cargo such as heating oil, salt and coal. This year has been one of the roughest winters in memory. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Lt. Michael Patterson)
• In this Feb. 12, 2014 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard the icebreaker Biscayne Bay passes Chicago's Navy Pier, left, as it through the ice covered waters of Lake Michigan on it's way to Indiana. The Coast Guard's team of nine icebreakers have logged four times more hours this season than the average for the same period in recent years. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Chief Petty Officer Alan Haraf)

CHEBOYGAN, Mich. (AP) - From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders - a battleground for the icebreaker's 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory.It's been so bitterly cold for so long in the Upper Midwest that the Great Lakes are almost completely covered with ice. The last time they came this close was in 1994, when 94 percent of the lakes' surface was frozen.
As of Friday, ice cover extended across 88 percent, according to the federal government's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.
Sections of the lakes, which hold nearly one-fifth of the freshwater on the world's surface, harden almost every winter. That freezing keeps the Coast Guard's fleet of nine icebreakers busy clearing paths for vessels hauling essential cargo such as heating oil, salt and coal. But over the past four decades, the average ice cover has receded 70 percent, scientists say, probably in part because of climate change.
Still, as this season shows, short-term weather patterns can trump multi-year trends. Winter arrived early and with a vengeance and refuses to loosen its grip.

"That arctic vortex came down, and the ice just kept going," said George Leshkevich, a physical scientist with the federal lab.



https://spthumbnails.5min.com/103624..._1_570_411.jpgThe deep freeze is more than a novelty. By limiting evaporation, it may help replenish lake water levels - a process that began last year after a record-breaking slump dating to the late 1990s. Also getting relief are cities along the lakes that have been pummeled with lake-effect snow, which happens when cold air masses suck up moisture from open waters and dump it over land.
Buffalo, N.Y, got nearly 43 inches of snow in January, but this month just 13 inches have fallen, a decline resulting largely from the freeze-over of Lake Erie even though Lake Ontario has remained largely open, said forecaster Jon Hitchcock of the National Weather Service.
Heavy ice can also protect fish eggs from predators, and it has delighted photographers, ice anglers and daredevil snowmobilers.
At Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin, the rock-solid cover has allowed around 35,000 visitors to trudge miles over Lake Superior to explore caves featuring dazzling ice formations. It's the first time in five years the lake surface has been firm enough to allow passage.
With no letup in the cold, the ice hasn't experienced the usual thaw-and-freeze cycle, so nature's artistry is even more delicate and beautiful, with needle-like hoarfrost crystals sprinkled across sheets that dangle from cave ceilings like giant chandeliers.
"Seeing them like this is almost a once-in-a-lifetime experience," Superintendent Bob Krumenaker said.
There's even an (apparently) tongue-in-cheek Facebook page inviting people to join a convoy of snowmobiles, cars and other vehicles on a nearly 80-mile trek across Lake Michigan. Never mind that its waters remain partly open and experts warn the ice can be dangerously unstable.
"If it freezes, and you miss this chance, when will it happen again?" the page says. "Feel free to invite more folks!"
For Coast Guard icebreaker teams, it's all business. They've logged four times more hours this season than the average for the same period in recent years, said Kyle Niemi, spokesman for the agency's Cleveland district headquarters.
The 240-foot-long Mackinaw began its duties Dec. 16 - several weeks earlier than usual - and worked nonstop until Feb. 8, when traffic slowed enough to allow a break.
"As you can imagine, the crew's tired," Cmdr. Michael Davanzo said this week during a tour of the ship in its home port of Cheboygan.
A 35-year Coast Guard veteran who has spent 12 years on the lakes, Davanzo said this winter is the toughest he's experienced because the ice came so soon and is so thick and widespread, and the weather has been constantly bitter.
The Mackinaw, commissioned in 2006 to replace an older vessel with the same name, is designed specifically for duty on the Great Lakes. It's propelled by two "Azipod" thrusters that can spin 360 degrees and fire jets of water at adjacent ice, weakening it. Sometimes the crew will drive the ship's bow onto an ice sheet to crack it with sheer weight. Or they'll go backward, chopping up ice with the propeller blades.
When the going gets tough, there's the battering-ram option - hurling the reinforced hull directly against walls of ice that can be several feet thick.
The workload typically drops sharply after navigational locks on the St. Marys River, the link between Lakes Superior and Huron, close in mid-January and most large cargo haulers dock for winter. But the ice was so thick this year that a number of freighters were still struggling to complete final deliveries days later. Even now, demand for road salt and heating oil in the Midwest is keeping some icebreakers busy.
One day last month, the Mackinaw spent 16 grueling hours helping a freighter squeeze through a narrow 3.5-mile section of the St. Marys. As the Mackinaw attacks the ice, the engines roar and the ship vibrates. The noise and motion are "like living in an earthquake 16 hours a day," Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Alderman said.
Davanzo hopes for rain and warmer temperatures that would melt some ice before the locks reopen in late March, when the Mackinaw will venture onto Lake Superior and clear paths for iron ore and coal haulers.
"But if the weather stays like this," he said, "we could be breaking ice all the way to the middle of May."
Despite the inconvenience, there's a silver lining for shippers. Since the low-water period began in late 1990s, they've been forced to carry lighter loads to avoid scraping bottom in shallow channels and harbors. Heavy snow and rain in 2013 finally raised water levels.
Ice cover blocks evaporation, the leading cause of low water. It also will keep the lakes cooler for a longer time this year, delaying the onset of heavy evaporation season, scientist John Lenters reported in a paper last month, although the benefit is partially offset by stepped-up evaporation shortly before the ice forms.
In Lake Superior, snowbound Isle Royale National Park is home to a dwindling and inbred wolf population that is usually trapped on the island. Biologists hope a newcomer or two will venture to the park now that the lake is almost entirely frozen over. The park's first wolves are believed to have crossed an ice bridge from Canada, 15 miles away, in the late 1940s.
There's also a chance that one or more of the island's wolves could grab the rare opportunity to escape.
"They are inveterate travelers," veteran wolf expert Rolf Peterson said. "And they don't need a reason that would make sense to us."

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Scam Time for Barry is in Overdrive on the Global Warming Fraud