Daily Archives: December 6, 2010

http://www.mirror.co.uk He apparently wants the UK to switch to motionless windmills and nearly non-existent solar energy during the winter. He also warns that if the UK doesn’t stop burning coal, temperatures will get even hotter than they are now. http://www.guardian.co.uk … Continue reading →

The same geniuses who forecast a mild winter the last two years (and a few barbecue summers) warn that the tropics can’t handle warm weather. http://www.guardian.co.uk/ A “largely ice free Arctic summer” is ludicrous.  Even if you believe that the … Continue reading →

Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate? As His name doesn’t feature on the exxonsecrets site, the Congressional funding database or any of the other sponsored denier lists, we’ll never know, but … Continue reading →

Most of the world may be begging for some promised global warming in a few weeks. http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.anim.html  

One hundred years ago, when CO2 was less than 300 ppm, and more than 50 ppm less than Hansen’s “safe and stable” 350 ppm. More than 1,700 forest fires were burning at the same time. It was the largest forest … Continue reading →

The image above overlays the NCDC five year running mean of Louisiana (red)  Texas (pink) Maine (green) and Pennsylvania (blue) with the y-axis normalised. Note that the current period of warming is unprecedented. We would have to go back over … Continue reading →

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Monbiot complains that it is cold where the rich people live and warm where the poor people live. (I wonder if that is factored in to GCMs?) If he were thinking like a good socialist, he would realize the opportunity … Continue reading →

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