Monthly Archives: September 2010

My composite of NSIDC’ September 27/20 maps shows new ice in green.

The Aztecs believed that droughts, famines and floods were the result of the gods being unhappy with them – and that by making between 20,000 and 80,000  human sacrifices per year, they could minimize the frequency of “extreme” weather events. … Continue reading →

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/las-summer-ends-with-a-chill-it-was-the-coldest-in-decades.html Having ignored one of the coldest summers on record in LA, Joe Romm suddenly perked up today about yesterday’s hot weather.

http://www.calstatela.edu/dept/geology/ All ten of the world’s deadliest floods occurred before Taminos’ period of “modern global warming” began.

Having spent his career writing and reporting about climate change, Mr. McKibben said the planet is heating up faster than scientists had predicted. http://www.telegram.com/article/20100928/NEWS/100929581/1116 When you have made a career out of reporting on climate change, sometimes you just have … Continue reading →

http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 24, 2010 The evidence for climate change grows: The first eight months of 2010 put this year on track to tie 1998 as the hottest year on record, global bleaching … Continue reading →

The summer of 1936 was the hottest on record in the US, but the winter was extremely cold. http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-02-c1.pdf February, 1936 saw temperature anomalies of -26ºF in Montana. The 1930s was typified by extreme heat, extreme cold, extreme drought, wind … Continue reading →

Arctic Hole It appeared on September 16, and continues to grow – now covering everything on the planet north of 83N.

In stark contrast to the Presidency of George W Bush, President Barack Obama is the first president to have not had a hurricane make landfall on US soil during his presidency. It has now been almost 750 days since a … Continue reading →

The EPA thinks the US is heating up rapidly. I took their map above, and flattened it to regions of warming (red) and cooling or no change (blue.)