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Finland endures coldest May in nearly 50 years


Yle
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:11 UTC
Snow Finland
Although Thursday is the first day of the summer month of June, there's no indication of balmy summer weather in sight. Daytime highs for the month are already unusually low, said Yle meteorologist Seija Paasonen.

"Between April and May we generally have the kinds of temperatures we are seeing now," Paasonen noted.

The weather forecast puts daytime highs Thursday and Friday at a chilly 10 to 11 degrees Celsius, while highs in central regions will runs from six to 7 degrees and from two to seven degrees Celsius up north.

According to Paasonen, at this time of year, average daytime highs in Helsinki should be around 17 degrees, and even up north, highs should be above 10 degrees.

Meanwhile new data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute indicate that across northern Finland - from Kainuu in the east to northern Ostrobothnia in the west - temperatures in May were nearly three degrees Celsius below the long term average.

The last time Finnish residents experienced a May as cold as this was in 1969 - nearly 50 years ago.

Comment: See also: 26 cm (10 inches) of snow recorded in eastern Finland on Mother's Day

Cold weather is keeping birds from nesting and delaying blossoming of wild berry bushes in Finland's north

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Northern Sweden just had snow - in June!


The Local Sweden
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:54 UTC
Snow in Kiruna, Sweden
© Ulrica Strålind/Instagram @ulricastralindSnow in Kiruna on June 1st.

June 1st means summer, right? Oh wait - this is Sweden after all. Bring on the snow and hail! Last month in Sweden was a month of extreme weather.

The far northern parts of Norrland saw record-low temperatures, the lowest since 1968 according to preliminary figures from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).

So surely, summer should be here by now? Well, think again - this is Sweden, after all. On June 1st, snow was falling over the small village of Kåbdalis in the northern county of Norrbotten.

"June 1st! From clear blue sky (and freezing cold) to snow storm in one minute. Yes, I do like snow. And I like winter. But maybe not in June," Kåbdalis resident Marie Nygårds wrote on Instagram.

In the arctic mining town of Kiruna, also in the Norrbotten county, residents got to experience a mix of weathers: "Hail, snow, thunder, +2 in Kiruna," Ulrica Strålind wrote on Instagram.
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Dilbert 1, Scientists 0.

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:16 UTC
dilbert on global warmimg
A communications group at Yale University has put out a video that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams poking fun at climate scientists and their misplaced confidence in models. The video is full of impressive-looking scientists talking about charts and data and whatnot. It probably cost a lot to make and certainly involved a lot of time and effort. The most amazing thing, however, is that it actually proves the points being made in the Dilbert cartoon. Rather than debunking the cartoon, the scientists acted it out in slow motion.

The Dilbert cartoon begins with a climate scientist saying "human activity is warming the earth and will lead to a global catastrophe." When challenged to explain how he knows that, he says they start with basic physical principles plus observations about the climate, which they then feed into models, pick and choose some of the outputs, then feed those into economic models, and voila. When asked, what if I don't trust the economic models, the scientist retreats to an accusation of denialism.
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Ivanka - Anyone who tells you we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:18 UTC
Holocene graph
It is colder right now than throughout almost all of history. I understand that you've been lead to believe that global warming is a problem, but that is not true. Please look at this chart. The blue line shows temperatures for the past 600 million years.

Look at the far right side of the chart (today), and you'll see that temperatures have plunged to their lowest point in almost 250 million years.

There have been only two periods in the past 600 million years when it has been colder than today.

We are now living through one of the coldest periods in geologic history. The last few year's minor rise in temperature is too minuscule to even show up on the chart.

Anyone who tries to tell you that we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed.

Your father's instincts about the global warming hoax are absolutely spot on. Please, please do not try to push him in the opposite direction.
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Snowflake Cold

Coldest start to winter since 1943 for Adelaide, Australia

Polly Haynes
The Advertiser
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 08:47 UTC
A cold morning at Renmark, where the mercury dropped to -3.2C.
© Dylan CokerA cold morning at Renmark, where the mercury dropped to -3.2C.
If you were feeling a little chilly this morning it's no surprise — it was our coldest start to winter since 1943, with the mercury plummeting to a frosty 2.9C in Adelaide.

Elsewhere in the state it was even colder, with Yunta -4.7C, Renmark -3.2C and Loxton, Snowtown and Murray Bridge -1.9C, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Cold morning for #SAweather: Yunta -4.7 °C, Renmark -3.2 ° C, Loxton, Snowtown and Murray Bridge -1.9 °C https://t.co/OazoPRe4P8 pic.twitter.com/3lgum4rTyF

— BOM South Australia (@BOM_SA) May 31, 2017
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Better Earth

Trump pulls out of The #ParisAgreement on Climate

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:10 UTC
paris climate accord pic
President Trump just announced that the U.S. will "withdraw" out of the Paris Climate Accord. But "begin negotiations to re-enter".

Trump said:
"We will cease honoring all non-binding agreements", and "will stop contributing to the green climate fund".

"I can not in good conscience support a deal that harms the United States".

"The bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair to the United States".

"This agreement is less about climate and more about other countries getting a financial advantage over the United States".

"The agreement is a massive redistribution of United States wealth to other countries."

"Fourteen days of carbon emissions alone would totally wipe out the U.S. contribution to reduction by 2030"
The Paris Accord is a BAD deal for Americans, and the President's action today is keeping his campaign promise to put American workers first. The Accord was negotiated poorly by the Obama Administration and signed out of desperation. It frontloads costs on the American people to the detriment of our economy and job growth while extracting meaningless commitments from the world's top global emitters, like China. The U.S. is already leading the world in energy production and doesn't need a bad deal that will harm American workers.
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A Holocene Temperature Reconstruction Part 1: the Antarctic

Andy May
Watts Up With That?
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:36 UTC
global temperature anomaly from the 1961-1990
© Figure 1
The only recent attempt at a global Holocene temperature reconstruction available today is the one by Marcott, et al. (2013), the paper abstract can be viewed here. His reconstruction is shown in figure 1.

The Y axis is a reconstructed global temperature anomaly from the 1961-1990 mean. "Years BP" are years before 1950. This reconstruction shows a fairly flat Holocene Climatic Optimum (or HCO, also called the Holocene Thermal Optimum, see description here) temperature anomaly of +0.4°C from 9500 BP to 5000 BP, declining to a low of -0.4°C about 300 BP (1650 AD) in the Little Ice Age (LIA). This 0.8°C difference between the HCO and the LIA is smaller than the generally accepted difference of 1°C to 1.5°C.

This is documented in some detail by Javier here. The higher accepted difference is clear in glacial records as shown by Koch, et al., 2014 (link). It can also be seen in the biosphere as shown by Kullman 2001 (link); Pisaric et al. 2003 (link); MacDonald et al. 2000 (link); Tinner, et al. 1996 (link) and Thouret et al. 1996 (link)). Further, the marine biosphere also shows a larger temperature difference as seen in Werne et al., 2000 (link) and Rosenthal et al., 2013 (link).
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Dollars

Climate Change - It's all about the money

Tony Heller
The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
Mon, 29 May 2017 03:17 UTC
"(Democrats) never met a tax they didn't like"- Ronald Reagan
Climate Change Fraud
© The GuardianSky high carbon tax needed to avoid catastrophic global warming, say experts | Environment | The Guardian
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France heat wave: Locals break 300 fire hydrants to beat high temperatures


RT
Mon, 29 May 2017 22:39 UTC
Lyon geysers
© Meron Fabien / Twitter
Some 300 fire hydrants have been broken or vandalized across France as people try to beat the summer's record high temperatures.

As temperatures topped 35 degrees across the Paris region of Île-de-France, numerous roadways flooded after hydrants were transformed into geysers, BFMTV reported.

In Plaine Saint-Denis neighborhood in the Paris suburbs, fire hydrants were left open for much of Sunday night and Monday morning

"This lasts for more than a week now," said one Plaine Saint-Denis resident. "A group of young people come with a wrench and open fire hydrants."

"For them it's funny, there's water coming out, they're cooling off, except that .... It's still vandalism," another added.
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We are repeating 14th century climate during the Wolff Grand Solar Minimum

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Sun, 28 May 2017 14:35 UTC
"The Frozen Thames" by Abraham Hondius
To my Patreon Supporters thank you. You have a new newsletter in your inbox detailing the upcoming changes in our weather patterns broken down by year and intensity.

Also an incredible free ebook on the collapse of Europe during the Wolff Minimum and the condition in society then that we are quickly racing towards in our own era.


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