Daily Archives: March 7, 2011

(base period 1961-90) http://www.woodfortrees.org/ Julienne asked to see a longer time period. I don’t see any evidence of acceleration in recent years.  Temperatures rose just as fast from 1910 to 1940 as they did from 1970 to 2000, and they … Continue reading →

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/f101.asp http://www.woodfortrees.org/ http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html

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Climate change is likely to be the predominant scientific, economic, political and moral issue of the 21st century.  The fate of humanity and nature may depend upon early recognition and understanding of human-made effects on Earth’s climate. (Hansen, 2009) http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf … Continue reading →

Last year around this time, Hansen was excitedly writing about the “record high temperatures.” As an objective scientist in an important position of responsibility, there can be little doubt he shares the same enthusiasm this year about the cold.

This graph of outgoing longwave radiation shows that since April of 2009, space aliens have been stealing the Earth’s heat. Now we know where Trenberth’s missing heat is hiding. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mjo/graphics/region.ts.dateline.gif Fortunately, we have windmills in Ireland producing almost no electricity … Continue reading →

http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/data/amsu_daily_85N85S_ch05.r002.txt Something interesting is happening with UAH satellite temperatures. Not only is March, 2011 the coldest since at least 2003 – but this is the only year where temperatures have been declining during March.

The blink comparator below shows changes in sea surface temperatures over the last two months. Two things which stand out are that La Nina is not as strong as it was, and that temperatures around Greenland have dropped considerably. http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sst/sst_anom-110109.gif … Continue reading →

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ h/t to Marc Morano