From the Arctic leveling yet another challenge to all-time record lows for sea ice, to a ridiculously long spate of hotter-than-normal temperatures for Alaska, to Hermine — which appears to be readying to drop 20 inches of rain over parts of the Southeast — there’s a ton of concerning climate news today. Let’s get to it.
Storms, Mega-Dipoles, and Shattered Sea Ice
A few weeks ago, big storms of near-record intensity started ripping through the Arctic. These storms saw numerous pressure dips into the 960-millibar range. These severe systems raked the ice with gale-force winds, heavy seas, and rainfall. A vulnerable ‘arm’ of ice extending out from the central Arctic toward Wrangel Island began to disintegrate under these multiple insults.
(The two frames above provide a good visual of the most vulnerable Arctic Ocean melt regions for early to mid-September. These primarily compose the Siberian side of the Arctic…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Any yet, ignorance is bliss when I look around – the pickups and SUVs keep getting bigger and bigger, engines keep idling, and nobody cuts back on anything, and humans keep breeding and eating meat. There are the climate deniers, and then there are the climate brain dead.
and then there are climate defiers!
Ha – deniers and defiers. Well, Mother Nature may give them a good swift kick in the butt.