Monday, May 11, 2009

It's Snowing In Newfoundland Today Too

According to The Telegraph's Christopher Booker, the elements are conspiring against the warmists: "That great authority Ban Ki-moon, the UN's Secretary-General, solemnly tells us that the polar ice caps are "melting far faster than was expected just two years ago". Yet the latest satellite information from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (passed on by the Watts Up With That blog) shows that, after the third slowest melt of April Arctic ice in 30 years, the world's polar sea ice is in fact slightly above its average extent for early May since satellite records began in 1979. This news came as the skiinfo.com website (which oddly excludes Newfoundland) was reporting "It's snowing all over the world". Snow was still falling in the Alps after a record winter, while in the southern hemisphere the skiing season was starting "five weeks early"."