Record Antarctic Sea Ice and Now This

Headline:

Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling

Using new sensor stations installed in 2005, there is now a decade of unadjusted temperature data, at least for the USA:

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s most accurate, up-to-date temperature data confirm the United States has been cooling for at least the past decade. The NOAA temperature data are driving a stake through the heart of alarmists claiming accelerating global warming.

Responding to widespread criticism that its temperature station readings were corrupted by poor citing issues and suspect adjustments, NOAA established a network of 114 pristinely cited temperature stations spread out fairly uniformly throughout the United States. Because the network, known as the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), is so uniformly and pristinely situated, the temperature data require no adjustments to provide an accurate nationwide temperature record. USCRN began compiling temperature data in January 2005. Now, nearly a decade later, NOAA has finally made the USCRN temperature readings available.

According to the USCRN temperature readings, U.S. temperatures are not rising at all – at least not since the network became operational 10 years ago. Instead, the United States has cooled by approximately 0.4 degrees Celsius, which is more than half of the claimed global warming of the twentieth century."

Science is never "settled", especially when it is political and bogus simultaneously. NOAA has done the right thing here: the data is being replicated with better technology in order to confirm or disconfirm previous or parallel data.

On top of southern sea ice increases there also has been an increase in arctic sea ice (and the polar bear scare meme was a fraud).

I bet James Hansen, Al Gore, Michael Mann, Jerry Brown, and Obama all need their pants changed.