Flooding to threaten southeast China to Japan; Drought to persist in Southeast Asia

The three warmest months are by definition summer, the three coldest months are winter and the intervening gaps are spring and autumn. Spring, when defined in this manner, can start on different dates in different regions. In terms of complete months, in most north temperate zone locations, spring months are March, April and May, although differences exist from country to country.

Asia spring forecast: Flooding to threaten southeast China to Japan; Drought to persist in Southeast Asia

While much of Asia can expect dry and mild conditions, there will be areas of ongoing drought as well as the risk of flooding during the spring of 2016.

"The main players in Asia this spring will be the typical ones, including the monsoon and fluctuations in Indian Ocean water temperatures," according to AccuWeather Chief International Meteorologist Jason Nicholls.

In addition, El Niño may still have enough influence to factor into the western Pacific Typhoon season during the approach of summer.

El Niño is defined by above-average sea surface temperatures in eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean. These sea surface temperatures cycle from warm to cool, relative to average, over a several-year period.

Much of Asia can expect near to above-average temperatures this spring.

An exception, although not highly unusual, will be from northeastern China, eastern Mongolia and Russia's far east to northern Japan. Cold and snowy conditions may hang on during March and perhaps into early April in this area.

During much of this past winter, waters in the Indian Ocean have been warmer than average. This abnormal warmth is likely to continue well into the spring.

The warm water may help to spur tropical downpours earlier than usual in the western parts of Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as the southern parts of Myanmar and Thailand. - Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather

Uh-oh! Ocean levels in the Philippines rising at 5 times the global average

Globally, sea levels are going up, but there are big regional differences

Effect of rising sea levels

The main factors influencing rising sea level have been well documented. First, climate change has led to increased global temperatures. As its temperature rises, the sea water expands (a process called steric expansion). In addition, ice sheets and land glaciers all over the world are shrinking through evaporation and melting. All of these factors contribute to rising ocean levels.

But the sea level doesn’t rise uniformly across the ocean—variations exist in different regions, and certain areas are more at risk.

Data collected from monitoring networks can be used to probe the mechanisms of sea level rise. In this investigation, scientists used satellite data from April 2002 to June 2014, which documented changes in mass (via gravimetry) and height (via altimetry) to account for the global and regional sea level rise budget. Because this combination of satellite data measures different contributions of the total sea level change, it can provide information on the overall change in the oceans' volume. These scientists compared their findings to previous studies that explored sea-level change due to water's expansion using analysis of temperature and salinity changes.

The team separated the sea level rise into several components: heat-driven expansion; glaciers and ice sheets; water movement, distribution, and quality (hydrology); and the rise of land as the glaciers above it melt off. They analyzed the sea level budget both globally and for a number of coastal areas.

Global sea level rise

Using their methods, they found that the global sea level rose by 2.74 ± 0.58 mm/y over this 12-year period. The volumetric contribution (1.38 ± 0.16 mm/y) was significantly larger than previous estimates made using temperature and salinity profiles. In addition, this contribution is twice as large as the value estimated using data collected from the uppermost 1,500m of the ocean.

They also found that the increase in sea level driven by the melting of ice sheets and glaciers (1.37 ± 0.09 mm/y) was offset by a negative contribution from the value that encapsulates water movement, distribution, and quality (-0.29 ± 0.26 mm/y). The remaining contribution required to close the budget was 0.22 ± 0.26 mm/y. This value represents other deep and shallow volumetric changes and internal ocean mass deviations, which are not accounted for elsewhere.

Regional sea level rise

When assessing regional changes in sea level, the team saw that the contributions of each component differed significantly from those of the global sea level. In the western Pacific and Indian Ocean, the rising sea level was dominated by the volumetric contribution (up to a whopping 75 percent). And it resulted in some dramatic local changes—it was as high as 14.7 ± 4.4 mm/y near the Philippines. The sea level was also strongly affected by the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, despite their distant location. In the central and eastern Pacific, heat-driven expansion contributions had a negative impact (-2.8 ± 11.5 mm/y) on the global sea level, although the margin of error was enormous.

Surprisingly, the coastlines around the Atlantic Ocean appeared to see significant changes that could not be attributed to expansion of the melting of ice. This unknown contribution could be caused by either volumetric effects that are not properly picked up using these methods or from internal mass variations of the ocean.

The authors also found that the contribution attributed to water infrastructure did not change the global sea level. The contribution from changes in the glacial volume remained small at the coastlines except near the former ice sheets.

These findings are particularly useful for areas that are most susceptible to the rising global sea level like coastal cities—assuming we're willing to incorporate it into our planning. - Arstechnica

Most dangerous period now for catastrophic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

We believe the USA and the world, has now entered the most dangerous period for catastrophic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in over two hundred years. In fact, a new trend of increased number and intensity of earthquakes and volcanoes globally, has already started and is generating serious concern in the geology field.  John L. Casey, Space and Science Research Corporation

Earthquake and Volcano Threat for USA Increases

by Space and Science Research Corporation

In a rare letter to Mr. Craig Fugate, the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC), has disclosed that we are about to enter a potentially catastrophic period of record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions throughout the United States.

 

The letter was signed by SSRC President, Mr. John Casey, and delivered to FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. today. In the letter, Mr. Casey outlines how the ongoing dramatic reduction in the Sun's energy output will not only plunge the world into a decades-long cold epoch, but at the same time bring record geophysical devastation in monster earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. These cold climate periods called "solar hibernations" or "solar minimums," are well known phenomena in the solar physics community. The SSRC has done important pioneering work in the field of solar- climate modeling and has established itself as a leader in climate prediction and the study of these hibernations of the Sun.

 

Citing new research included in the SSRC's semi-annual Global Climate Status Report (GCSR) to come out on Wednesday, the letter to FEMA's Craig Fugate contained an important warning for all major earthquake fault zones and volcanically active areas. The research focuses especially on the increased threat for the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) between St. Louis and Memphis.

 

This new threat information is contained in one of several papers in the June 10 edition of the GCSR paper authored by Mr. Casey and Dr. Dong Choi, Director of Research for the International Earthquake and Volcano Prediction Center (IEVPC). The paper shows that the NMSZ is due for another calamitous quake between 2017 and 2038. Dr. Choi and Casey show that for four times in a row since the year 1450, a major quake strikes the NMSZ when the Sun has gone into a hibernation phase. This scientific revelation is what Choi and Casey believes solves the puzzle of when the next major quake will strike the area. Geologists have studied the NMSZ for many years using traditional approaches. Casey and Choi say it is the combined research from the fields of solar physics and geology that provides the best opportunity to date to estimate when the next devastating NMSZ earthquake will strike. Other scientists agree with their opinion.

 

For this singular reason Dr. Choi and Mr. Casey have strongly recommended to FEMA Administrator Fugate that all high risk earthquake fault zones and areas with a history of volcanic eruptions in the USA take immediate precautions to mitigate what they describe as a "period of unparalleled geophysical lethality and destruction."

 

Mr. Casey adds, "The very strong correlation between these solar minimums and the incidence of catastrophic earthquakes worldwide is an impressive display of how interconnected we all are to our natural world and the cycles of the Sun. It would be foolhardy to ignore in particular, the history of major earthquakes in the NMSZ and the fact that at the bottom of every solar hibernation for the past 600 years, that area has seen devastating earthquakes ranging from M6.8 to M8.0. 

 

"While we address the New Madrid risk in this press release and in the June 10, 2016 Global Climate Status Report, the coincidence of major earthquakes with solar minimums is not limited to just that area of the US. That is why our letter to Administrator Fugate was a nationwide alert. The ~M9.0 Cascadia quake and tsunami of 1700 was at the bottom of the coldest solar hibernation period which was called the Maunder Minimum. The Great San Francisco quake of 1906 was at the bottom of another solar low point - the ‘Centennial' Minimum as it is called at the SSRC. This strong association of solar activity and the worst earthquakes and volcanic eruptions could represent the ‘missing link' for geophysical disaster prediction."

 

Dr. Choi (Australia) also supports Casey's opinion by saying, "The extensive research done in this area is clear in its implications. When the solar minimums arrive, the worst recorded earthquakes and volcanic eruptions strike. The last solar minimum for example, saw the largest series of earthquakes in human history in the NMSZ and the largest recorded volcanic eruption at Mt. Tambora in Indonesia. These events occurred within a few years of each other during the coldest period in the Sun's last hibernation in the early 1800's."

Space and Science Research Corporation

Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, the Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC) is a leading independent US climate research company. It is the foremost institution in the United States dedicated to communicating the need to prepare for the new cold climate epoch. The SSRC has led all climate research companies in alerting the White House, Congress and the maintsream media to the ill-effects of the next climate change predicted by the SSRC and other international scientists to be decades of potentially dangerous cold weather.


The SSRC maintains active communication channels with some of the world's best experts in the field of solar physics and climate research pertaining to the matter of the next climate change. In addition, it has a dedicated list of "Supporting Researchers" and other scientists who contribute to its climate reports and climate research.

John L. Casey

 

Mr. John L. Casey is a former White House space program advisor, consultant to NASA Headquarters, and a senior field engineer on the Space Shuttle program. He is one of America’s most successful climate change researchers and climate prediction experts. Mr. Casey is the leading advocate in the US for a national and international plan to prepare for the next climate change to one of a dangerous cold climate era. This new cold era is caused by a historic decline in the Sun’s energy output, what he calls a “solar hibernation.”

In the spring of 2007, he became the first researcher to announce this dramatic change in the Sun to the White House and the mainstream media. In addition to correctly predicting the hibernation of the Sun, recently confirmed by NASA and other science organizations, he has correctly predicted the end of global warming, and the long term decline in the Earth’s temperatures.

He is the author of the internationally acclaimed climate science books, “Cold Sun” and "Dark Winter," which describe the rationale for understanding why global warming has ended and the effects of the new cold climate era. Mr. Casey is currently President of the climate research company, the Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC), in Orlando, Florida. Through his years in climate research he has been outspoken in saying that the Sun is the primary driver to climate change. He was named "America's best climate prediction expert," by Watchdogwire.com in March 2013.

Explosive intervention by Pope Francis on Climate Change debate

Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate

The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?

John Vidal,The Guardian

Pope Francis on a visit to the Philippines in January. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday.

In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the pontiff is expected to argue that humanity’s exploitation of the planet’s resources has crossed the Earth’s natural boundaries, and that the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The much-anticipated message, which will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops, will be published online in five languages on Thursday and is expected to be the most radical statement yet from the outspoken pontiff.

However, it is certain to anger sections of Republican opinion in America by endorsing the warnings of climate scientists and admonishing rich elites, say cardinals and scientists who have advised the Vatican.

The Ghanaian cardinal, Peter Turkson, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and a close ally of the pope, will launch the encyclical. He has said it will address the root causes of poverty and the threats facing nature, or “creation”.

In a recent speech widely regarded as a curtain-raiser to the encyclical, Turkson said: “Much of the world remains in poverty, despite abundant resources, while a privileged global elite controls the bulk of the world’s wealth and consumes the bulk of its resources.”

The Argentinian pontiff is expected to repeat calls for a change in attitudes to poverty and nature. “An economic system centred on the god of money needs to plunder nature to sustain the frenetic rhythm of consumption that is inherent to it,” he told a meeting of social movements last year. “I think a question that we are not asking ourselves is: isn’t humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature? Safeguard creation because, if we destroy it, it will destroy us. Never forget this.”

The encyclical will go much further than strictly environmental concerns, say Vatican insiders. “Pope Francis has repeatedly stated that the environment is not only an economic or political issue, but is an anthropological and ethical matter,” said another of the pope’s advisers, Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Peru.

“It will address the issue of inequality in the distribution of resources and topics such as the wasting of food and the irresponsible exploitation of nature and the consequences for people’s life and health,” Barreto Jimeno told the Catholic News Service.

He was echoed by Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras, who coordinates the Vatican’s inner council of cardinals and is thought to reflect the pope’s political thinking . “The ideology surrounding environmental issues is too tied to a capitalism that doesn’t want to stop ruining the environment because they don’t want to give up their profits,” Rodríguez Maradiaga said.

The rare encyclical, called “Laudato Sii”, or “Praised Be”, has been timed to have maximum public impact ahead of the pope’s meeting with Barack Obama and his address to the US Congress and the UN general assembly in September.

It is also intended to improve the prospect of a strong new UN global agreement to cut climate emissions. By adding a moral dimension to the well-rehearsed scientific arguments, Francis hopes to raise the ambition of countries above their own self-interest to secure a strong deal in a crucial climate summit in Paris in November.

“Pope Francis is personally committed to this [climate] issue like no other pope before him. The encyclical will have a major impact. It will speak to the moral imperative of addressing climate change in a timely fashion in order to protect the most vulnerable,” said Christiana Figueres, the UN’s climate chief, in Bonn this week for negotiations. - Read full story on  The Guardian

Pre-emptive attacks on the Pope's stance on Climate Change

Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis to ‘stick with his job and we’ll stick with ours’

The US right will launch pre-emptive attacks on the pope’s stance on climate change

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent

Catholic and long-shot Republican nomination hopeful Rick Santorum.
Photograph: Chris Keane/Reuters

Leading figures on the American right are launching a series of pre-emptive attacks on the pope before this week’s encyclical, hoping to prevent a mass conversion of the climate change deniers who have powered the corps of the conservative movement for more than a decade.

The prospect that the pope, from his perch at the pinnacle of the Catholic church, will exhort humanity to act on climate change as a moral imperative is a direct threat to a core belief of US conservatives. And conservatives – anxious to hang on to their flock – are lashing out.

“The pope ought to stay with his job, and we’ll stay with ours,” James Inhofe, the granddaddy of climate change deniers in the US Congress and chairman of the Senate environment and public works committee, said last week, after picking up an award at a climate sceptics’ conference.

Rick Santorum, a devout Catholic and a long-shot contender for the Republican nomination, told a Philadelphia radio station: “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what we’re good at, which is theology and morality.”

A majority of Republicans in Congress deny the existence of climate change and oppose regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Among the ultra-conservative Tea Party set, climate change scepticism reaches epidemic proportions, about 80% of those on the far right, according to the Pew research centre. Only one of the nearly 20 Republicans running for president will acknowledge the danger of climate change, another long-shot contender, Lindsey Graham.

The fossil fuel industry, including the American Petroleum Institute lobby group and Peabody Coal, has cast fossil fuels as a route out of poverty in the developing world. Ultra-conservative and climate change denial thinktanks, such as the Heartland Institute, which has been funded by the oil industry, have argued that climate change was the cure for drought and famine in Ethiopia in the 1980s.

“In the US for the past 10 years we have allowed climate change to become an ideological political issue instead of being the moral issue that it is,” said the Rev Mitchell Hescox, leader of the Evangelical Environmental Network. “The idea that climate change is a liberal issue has just permeated the thought of those in the conservative movement, and those in the denier campaign have taken advantage of that to continue to drive home the message that climate change is not a moral issue,” added Hescox, who identifies himself as a conservative.

But it gets much harder to dismiss climate change as a fringe concern of liberals such as Al Gore, and environmental regulations as a sneaky first step to sweeping regulations and a government takeover of private lives, once the pope becomes involved.

“If I were a Catholic climate denier, I would be worried about the pope,” said Patrick Regan, who teaches the politics of climate change at Notre Dame University. “And if I had a vested interest in not changing climate policy, the pope would be a threat to my political stance.”

In the case of climate change, conservatives face multiple threats to the world view.

This week, the pope will cast climate change as the moral cause of our times. Over the summer, Barack Obama will finalise new rules cutting carbon pollution from power plants. In September, the pope will be back to stir up talk of climate change again, in the first ever speech by a pope to Congress – just at a time when hard-core conservatives had hoped to be voting on long-shot legislation to block the power plant rules or cut climate aid to developing countries.

Climate scientist further speaks on "the manufactured consensus"

Dr. Judith A. Curry is a climatologist who testified before the US House committee on April 15, 2015, on the state of the science of climate change.

Highlights from her testimony:

Whenever I despair over what’s going on in the climate field I look at the recent collapse of the consensus on cholesterol and heart disease… even though it’s strongly enforced by funding and reputations and authority… these things if they are not correct will eventually collapse.

Skepticism is one of the four norms of science, it’s absolutely essential for scientific progress. It’s our job to question the evidence and reassess conclusions. That’s what we’re supposed to do.

However in the climate field there’s this manufactured consensus that we’re all supposed to step in line and follow, and it's rather bizarre given this very complex and poorly understood climate system.

We need lots more debate, we need to explore natural climate variability in particular if we’re ever gonna understand all these. It’s disagreement and debates that really what moves knowledge to move forward. - Video on Judith Curry
 
More quotes from her statement:

 he IPCC’s model assumptions that long-term natural net rate of accumulation is constant and anthropogenic emission rates are the only contributor to total long-term accumulation of atmospheric CO2, is false.

Is it possible that something really dangerous and unforeseen could happen to Earth’s climate during the 21^st century? Yes it is possible, but natural climate variability (perhaps in conjunction with human-caused climate change) may be a more likely source of possible undesirable change than human causes. 

In any event, attempting to avoid such a dangerous and unforeseen climate by reducing fossil fuel emissions will be futile if natural climate is a dominant factor.

Dr. Judith Curry testifying at House committee on space, science and technology,

The perspective that emphasizes natural variability:

• Our understanding of circulation regimes in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (stadium wave

hypothesis) suggests that the ‘hiatus’ will continue at least another decade, perhaps into the

2030’s. Arctic sea ice will recover over the next two decades.

• Climate models are too sensitive to human forcing; 21st century warming will be on the low end of IPCC projections (or even below).

• Solar variations and volcanic eruptions are a wild card. Russian scientists argue that there was a Grand Solar Maximum that peaked in the late 20th century, and that we can expect a Grand Solar Minima (contributing to cooling) to peak around 2060.

• And finally, we can’t rule out unforeseen surprises.  The hiatus in warming in the early 21st century was an unforeseen surprise.

Global Warming/Climate Change - Pinakamalaking scam sa mundo!

Datirati, ang popular na tawag natin dito noon mula 1990s ay "global warming". Makaraan ang mga dalawa at kalahating dekada, napatunayan na ang pinamamahayan nating mundo sa katotohanan, ay lumalamig, hindi umiinit. At malaki ang depekto ayon sa mga scientists ng theoriyang sinalaksak sa lalamunan ng mga taong tinuring na mistulang alipin ang dahilan ng hinihinalang pag-init ng mundo.

Basta iyun daw ang finding ng mga scientist at dapat lamang diumanong paniwalaan. Hindi lamang iyon, kundi dapat daw sundin ang ano mang ipag-uutos sa mga salaring tao ng alin mang gobyernong nagpapatupad ng mga patakaran para mapigilan ang tuluyang pag-init ng mundo. 

At kapag hindi, ang mga pobreng kabarangay natin halimbawa sa Pilipinas ay magmumulta o makukulong kapag sumuway. Kayat yuko ang ulo ng mga modernong aliping walang magawa kundi tanggapin ang akusasyon na sila nga ang may sala sa carbon emissions na nagaganap sa paligid. 

Ngayon, dahil hindi na puwedeng tawaging "global warming" ang usaping ito, (nasa record high na sa kasaysayan ang paglawak pa ng yelo sa North at South Pole o Antarctica sa loob ng mga nakaraang taon - taliwas sa inaasahan ng mga global warmists), ang solusyon ng mga pasimunong mga scientist at mga pampulitikong organisasyon na nagsusulong ng "global warming", ay tawagin na nga lamang daw nating "climate change" ang problema.

Malasado, Pero sino nga naman ang kokontra sa terminong "climate change" kung alam naman natin na ang klima ay totoo ngang nagbabago - sa lahat ng panahon. Aangal ka pa?

Maanomalya talaga, pero kapag ang pinaka-makapangyarihang mga gobyerno na sa mundo ang nagsusulong ng climate change, sindak na sindak na ang mga lider at mamamayan ng mahihirap na bansa. Katulad o lalo na ng Pilipinas na bow ng bow na lamang kung ano ang sabihin o iutos ng mga Kano, dahil dating "Uncle Sam" pa nga ang tawag natin sa Amerika, hindi ba?

Marami nang naganap na mga bagay-bagay sa labas ng ating bansa hinggil sa usaping ito ng global warming/climate change. Abala nga lamang tayo sa maraming bagay o mga lokal na usapin at kaguluhan, kayat di hamak na hindi natin nasusundan ang mga pangyayari tungkol dito - na ngayon ay tinataguriang "global warming hoax" na. Ang pinakamalaking scam sa kasaysayan ng daigdig.

Pagbubulgar ng The Green $windle

Kailangang mapanood sa kabuuhan ang isa lamang sa ilang mga "expose" tungkol sa global warming - ang "The Green $windle", unang naipalabas sa Fox News sa US.

Ang TV-dokumentaryong ito (mga 45 minutes ang haba), ay tumatalakay sa pagsikat at ngayon naman ay ang tila pagbulusok, ng salamangkang "global warming"/"climate change". Hinahalukay nito ang pinagmulan ng konsepto ng man-made global warming; kung paano ito minanufacture sa pamamagitan ng pekeng siyensiya; at kung paanong ang mga ganid na pulitiko at malalaking mga business sa mundo ay ginawa itong multibillion dollar industry - hanggang ngayon.

Climate change a U.N.-led ruse to create new world order - Australia PM advisor

Australia PM advisor says climate change a U.N.-led ruse to create new world order

SYDNEY – Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s top business adviser on Friday claimed climate change was a ruse encouraged by the United Nations to create a new authoritarian world order under its control.

Maurice Newman, chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, said the real agenda was “concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook.”

In a column for The Australian newspaper to coincide with a visit by U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres, he added that the world had been “subjected to extravagance from climate catastrophists for close to 50 years.”

“It’s a well-kept secret, but 95 percent of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO2 emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error,” he said, without providing evidence.

Newman, a former chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corp., is a known climate change skeptic but he went further Friday by accusing the U.N. of being involved in a scam.

“Figueres is on record saying democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model,” he wrote.

“This is not about facts or logic. It’s about a new world order under the control of the U.N. It is opposed to capitalism and freedom and has made environmental catastrophism a household topic to achieve its objective.” - The Japan Times

Climate Change Hoax - and we Filipinos were also fooled

In 2007 the Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US Vice President Al Gore "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".

During his Dec. 10, 2007 acceptance speech, Gore proclaimed that the Arctic's summer ice could completely disappear by 2013 due to global warming caused by carbon emissions. He said, thus: 

"Last September 21 (2007), as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented alarm that the North Polar icecap is, in their words, 'falling off a cliff.' One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week warns that it could happen in as little as seven years. Seven years from now." (Watch Nobel Prize video from 1:28:40)

Gore and IPCC sharing the Nobel in 2007.

He also warned that rising temperatures were “a planetary emergency and a threat to the survival of our civilization.”

 The opposite came

But his "ice-free by 2013" speech was already proven off - by 920,000 square miles.

Satellite photos of the Arctic taken by NASA in August 2012 and August 2013 show a 60 percent increase in the polar ice sheet, more than half the size of Europe, despite “realistic” predictions by climate scientists as mentioned, that the North Pole would be completely melted by then.

Instead of shrinking, the NASA photographs clearly show that the Arctic ice sheet is much larger than it was. The thick layer of summer ice, which currently stretches from Canada to Russia, is preventing ships from using the North-West Passage.

Then last year, ice concentrations on the South pole are at record levels. Which is apparently why "global warming" became "climate change" when they figured out that the false claims would not occur.

Clearer today

As of today, the South Pole icepack concentrations are rapidly growing to record levels in what will probably now trigger new discussion on "global cooling" or even the coming of a "mini-ice age". Of course that's still consistent with the euphemism known as "climate change" which is confusing as climate is always changing, but certainly millions of miles away from "global warming".

'You can make history... or be villified by it' - DiCaprio at UN Climate Summit

Leonardo DiCaprio Addresses UN Climate Summit: 'You Can Make History... Or Be Vilified By It'

The Huffington Post  | By Nick Visser

Leonardo DiCaprio addressed world leaders assembled for the United Nations Climate Summit early Tuesday morning, urging them to take action to address "the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet."

"As an actor, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe humankind has looked at climate change in that same way," he said at the summit. "My friends, this body -- perhaps more than any other gathering in human history -- now faces that difficult task. You can make history... or be vilified by it."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently appointed DiCaprio to serve as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, calling the actor a “new voice for climate advocacy." Both Ban and DiCaprio participated in Sunday's 400,000-strong People's Climate March in New York City.

Take a look at DiCaprio's speech above. Excerpts:

Thank you, Mr. Secretary-General, your excellencies, ladies and gentleman, and distinguished guests. I’m honored to be here today, I stand before you not as an expert but as a concerned citizen, one of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis.

As an actor I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems.

I believe humankind has looked at Climate Change in that same way: as if it were a fiction, happening to someone else’s planet, as if pretending that Climate Change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away.

But I think we know better than that. Every week
, we’re seeing new and undeniable Climate Events, evidence that accelerated Climate Change is here now. We know that droughts are intensifying, our oceans are warming and acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from beneath the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, increased temperatures, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice-sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections.

None of this is rhetoric, and none of it is hysteria. It is fact. The scientific community knows it, Industry and Governments know it, even the United States military knows it. The Chief of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that Climate Change is our single greatest security threat... (Full transcription here).