Monthly Archives: November 2010

The closest USHCN station to Washington is at Lincoln, Virginia. Since the mid-1990s, the thermometers say that Lincoln has cooled about three degrees (blue below) – while USHCN carefully adjusts the temperatures in the opposite direction. Note that the adjusted … Continue reading →

US environmentalists, assessing the Republican tsunami that washed over the country, chose Wednesday to tout a key Election Day victory in beating back California’s Proposition 23, a ballot initiative that would have reversed clean-energy requirements statewide – and led quite … Continue reading →

2C climate target may need to change: UK scientist Slingo added: “Temperature change in many respects is not the most dangerous part of climate change. The most dangerous part is arguably around the shift of regional rainfall patterns. http://www.reuters.com/ The … Continue reading →

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ I am hopeful that the new Congress will give him the opportunity to stop ignoring the science.

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2001/07/glacierbaymap.gif Between 1760 and 1860, the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated a disturbing 30 miles. Atmospheric CO2 was 280 ppm at the time. Fortunately, recent higher CO2 levels seem to be associated with much slower retreat.  In fact, some … Continue reading →

The US said this : Washington Post readers said this :

http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php The Beaufort and Chukchi Seas are filling up with ice very quickly now. In a few weeks they will be frozen solid and ice gain will slow down considerably, because all of the high latitude Arctic regions will be … Continue reading →

James Blalog set up time lapse cameras to capture glacial loss in Greenland and elsewhere. I’m not sure he got the results he was expecting.  There are some excellent videos on his web site showing that Greenland is not changing … Continue reading →

The US National Debt will exceed $15 trillion dollars during the next year. You could paper over the entire state of California (or 2,327 Manhattans) with 15 trillion dollar bills. If you are more of a linear thinker, You could … Continue reading →

In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted. Gases from the volcano killed most of the island’s livestock and as a result – one fourth of the human population starved to death.