Monthly Archives: April 2011

Gusting over 70MPH at NCAR today. Most days this month have had wind gusts over 40 MPH. A huge branch just broke off on to the roof of my house. http://www.eol.ucar.edu/

[UPDATE : Correction below. It doesn’t change the conclusion.] I tried an experiment on RRTM – the radiative transfer model used by NCAR’s climate and weather models – which shows how ridiculous the Hansen/Sagan runaway greenhouse effect is. The control … Continue reading →

In 1988, Hansenlocks was lost in the climate forest when she stumbled upon the home of three scenarios. She was hot from having sabotaged the air conditioner, and looked for some Kool-Aid to cool down. First she tried scenario A, … Continue reading →

The world’s “top-rated” climate scientist implies that 437 degrees is on the way real soon. The top-rated climate scientist in the world, James Hansen from NASA stated, “If we burn all reserves of oil, gas, and coal, there is a … Continue reading →

“[…] a marked increase in the number of weather-related events. For instance, globally, loss-related floods have more than tripled since 1980, and windstorm natural catastrophes more than doubled, with particularly heavy losses from Atlantic hurricanes. This rise cannot be explained … Continue reading →

Fires in Russia, droughts in the Southwest, and floods in Pakistan all have one thing in common, according to former Vice President Al Gore, and it’s that they’re all effects of global warming. http://thinksb.com/

There is almost a balance with 30 gauge records showing deceleration and 27 showing acceleration, clustering around 0.0 mm/y2. The mean is a slight deceleration of -0.0014 +/- 0.0161 mm/y2 (95%) http://www.jcronline.org/doi/pdf/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-10-00157.1 h/t to Jimbo

Over several months during fall and winter, dozens of volunteers fanned out across the Mojave Desert in search of the smallest Joshua tree they could find. They were part of a project to determine whether Joshua Tree National Park will … Continue reading →

Superstition returns to the forefront of human thinking. http://www.salon.com/

Adm. Titley estimates that ‘sometime between 2035 and 2040 there is a pretty good chance that the Arctic Ocean will be essentially ice-free for about a month’ each year. http://the-diplomat.com/