Svalbard On For Cold April; Switzerland's Snow Matches Historic 1974-75 Season; Germany Threatens Weekend Driving Ban; Depopulation; + Solar Cycle 25 Isn't Done With Us Yet
Svalbard is "warming six times faster than the global average." Uh-Huh.
Svalbard On For Cold April
Svalbard is experiencing one of its coldest Aprils on record, and the outright coldest since 2009 (solar min of weak cycle 23).
One of the backup Poster Boys for 'global warming', Svalbard is often used to scare the masses into accepting anti-prosperity policies.
"The Arctic islands where we can see the future of global heating," is how The Guardian describes the Norwegian archipelago, who go on to claim that it is "warming six times faster than the global average" — a new record!?
The data, as recorded by Norsk Klimaservicesenter, reveal temperatures at Svalbard have hardly risen in four and a half decades.
Looking at the month of April, average readings this year (as of April 14) stand at a very frigid -14.4C (6.1F). This is a substantial 4.1C below the monthly norm, and makes for one of the coldest Aprils ever recorded, bested only by 2009's -15.9C (3.4F) and by the Aprils of 1988, 1986, 1979 and 1977.
April 2024 would have been considered a cold one back in the early-1980s, before global warming melted peoples' brains.
Staying in the Arctic, Poster Boy #1 (sea ice extent) has been on a tear in recent months.
Extent currently stands as the highest in 11 years, and is also running above 2011, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 1996. It's climbing, too, threatening to take out 1989 and also the 2001-2010 average (it's already eclipsed the 2011-2020 average)
Zooming out paints an even less concerning picture.
Stein et al. (2017) look back at the past 10,000 of Arctic sea ice coverage.
It is revealed to be doing just fine.
The Arctic isn't playing ball this year, clearly, so alarmists have pinballed their attention to Antarctica. Unfortunately for them though, Antarctic sea ice is in full recovery mode following 2023's wind/ocean current-driven 'blip'.
As of April 14, 2024, there is more ice around the bottom of the world than there was on the same date in 1980, 1981, 1989, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023 — and it's growing, soon to return to multidecadal norms.
Moreover, the continent is cooling, routinely breaking daily, monthly and seasonal low temperature records.
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Switzerland's Snow Matches Historic 1974-75 Season
Snowfall during the 2023-24 season has been comparable to that of the historic 1974-75 season, according to data from the Swiss Avalanche Institute (SLF), when avalanches across the eastern Alps killed more than 40 people.
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