http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX87.html

http://www.mnc.net/norway/Amundsen.htm

In 1944 the Canadian Mounted Police Boat St Roch sailed the Northwest Passage in 86 days. That was their second crossing.

http://hnsa.org/ships/stroch.htm

Random Lurker – it took him three years. It was a major feat of endurance and exploration. Had you really not investigated? Why ask questions that are incredibly easy to answer for yourself?

My point was that the particular post to which I was refering was WAY over the line – please do tell us where the line is.

In contrast, the trend since 1975 has gone down – Keith, you have shown that you are mathematically inept before, and you’ve done it again now. The trend over the whole data period was 0.00028 per cent per month. The trend since 1975 was 0.0022 per cent per month. Look again at those numbers. Count the zeroes.

AllenC – where in Hansen 1988, exactly, were the predictions that you referred to when you said “all the AGW predictions have come true. All species of plants and animals are now extinct. I went outside yesterday and my skin all burned off. I was going to visit NY City but found out it was underwater. I’m tired of stepping over the dead bodies of the hoards who have died of horrible tropical diseases. Life’s hideous with AGW in full swing.“

How about James Hansens predictions in 1988? Do those count? Becuase it turns out he was very wrong.

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HANSEN.JPG
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3354

Or some from the IPCC:

http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTYwMjRiZjJhMmUxYWE2MmQ0NDZhOGM0M2Q3ZWUzMmE

Actually, Scientist, your trend analysis says there has been upward trend of between 21 and 35 millionths over a one hundred eight year span, which translated to roughly one additional flood or drought every two to five years. In contrast, the trend since 1975 has gone down to 19 to 25 millionths, pushing the incidence of additional natural weather disaster down to closer to that five year number. Since this is usually cited as the beginning of the “global warming” era, that would seem to say to me that global warming is good because it decreases floods and droughts.

Of course, these charts do not take into account human land use patterns during this time. It is possible that some of the floods being reported now are occurring in areas without extensive human habitation earlier in the historic period. It is possible that a similar flood might not have been reported as there was no one living in the area one hundred years ago. And we have been deforesting some areas that previously had old growth forest that might have contributed to a better rain pattern in an area that is now suffering drought type conditions.