In 2007, the IPCC predicted with 100% confidence, shrinking sea ice at both poles. How did they do?

 AR4 SYR Synthesis Report – Figure 3.2

Sea ice at both poles has increased since the world’s leading experts made their forecast.

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President Obama wants to make it illegal to dispute expert projections.

In 1988, global warming came into vogue, and the New York Times started helping to create the hockey stick by announcing that temperatures had risen steadily for a century

Temperature For World Rises Sharply In the 1980’s – NYTimes.com

This came right after the New York Times had spent 30 years reporting global cooling and a new ice age.

Science – Worrying About a New Ice Age – View Article – NYTimes.com

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – View Article – NYTimes.com

SCIENTISTS AGREE WORLD IS COLDER – – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: July 18, 1970 – NYTimes.com

Only 13 years earlier, the National Academy of Sciences reported that there had been no net warming in the 20th century.

The Ministry of Truth has amazing powers at making the past disappear.

The year 1934 was far more extreme than anything we have experienced recently.

Maximum temperatures averaged the hottest in US history

Like the current February, temperatures in the east were extremely cold

Almost 70% of the US reached 100 degrees, compared to just over 20% last year.

80% of the US was in drought.

The drought in the US during 1934 blew away all records, but it wasn’t just in the US – it was all over the world.

TimesMachine: June 6, 1934 – NYTimes.com

TimesMachine: May 29, 1934 – NYTimes.com

LONDON, June 2, 1934
WORLD DROUGHT
Farmers’ Ruinous Losses
Almost Universal Disaster
Europe Revives Pagan Rites

A survey of the threat of a world drought reveals ruinous losses by farmers in many parts of the world. There is an actual shortage of food, with young crops blasted in the ground by the scorching sunshine and thousands of cattle without pasture. The disaster…

Alarmists are out in force showing off their stupidity today.

Scientists are starting out the week lying about food.

Climate change hampering world food production, say scientists – Yahoo News

The reality is that food production is at record highs, and prices have dropped due to low fossil fuel costs.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Food Security Index, which is sponsored by DuPont, all-time high production levels of corn, wheat and soybeans and falling global oil prices have resulted in improved food security outlooks for 79 of the 109 countries in the Index.

However, the full impact of cheaper oil on local consumer prices, political stability, and on the fiscal positions of oil exporters and importers will only play out in the months to come.  “Supplies and stocks of the major grains are very strong, which will push global prices lower in 2015,” said Leo Abruzzese, Global Forecasting Director for The Economist Intelligence Unit. “The 60%…

Influence of Urban Heating  on the Global Temperature  Land Average using Rural  Sites Identified from MODIS  Classifications

Wickham C1  , Rohde R2  , Muller RA3,4  *, Wurtele J3,4  , Curry J5  , Groom  D3  , Jacobsen R3,4  , Perlmutter S3,4  , Rosenfeld A3 and Mosher S6

The effect of urban heating on estimates of global average  land surface temperature is studied by applying an urban-rural  classification based on MODIS satellite data to the Berkeley  Earth temperature dataset compilation of 36,869 sites from 15  different publicly available sources

We observe the opposite of an urban heating effect over the  period 1950 to 2010, with a slope of -0.10 ± 0.24°C/100yr (2σ error) in  the Berkeley Earth global land temperature average. The confidence  interval is consistent with a zero urban heating effect, and at most  a small urban heating effect (less than 0.14°C/100yr, with 95%  confidence) on the scale of the observed…