Monthly Archives: April 2011

Cool. Sea ice is now part of the tundra! http://www.metro.co.uk/ NASA explains how these cracks form. Lots of people think of the Arctic as just a flat expanse of white. This couldn’t be further from the truth. There are all … Continue reading →

Wind power’s impact on wildlife has long been a sticking point when it comes to the renewable resource’s development. Ever since the Altamont, California turbines went up in the late 1970s, bird kills have been highlighted as the best reason … Continue reading →

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ More on Clarinda, Iowa. The blue line is the measured thermometer data. As you can see, the 1930s was very hot there. The red line shows temperatures after USHCN adjustments. The Dust Bowl is gone, through the magic of … Continue reading →

How do you reduce the debt? Stop spending. If you lined up that many dollar bills end to end, they would make it well past Jupiter and Saturn.

We keep hearing from leading experts that spring snow cover is on the decline. The graph above plots week 13 (the most recent published) since the start of records in 1968. What is clear is that there was a sharp … Continue reading →

April 7 – heavy snow in the forecast. http://www.weatherstreet.com/data/SPC_012.jpg

The webcam view from this morning. Salon reported that Hansen predicted Manhattan would submerge by 2008, but reader Tony Duncan claims that was a mistake and that Manhattan won’t actually be flooded for another 18 years.

We know we want to bomb someone, we just aren’t sure who yet. Last week we were bombing civilians in Pakistan. Probably Bush’s fault. http://www.voanews.com/

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q83CQ_7CGCg] The Global Warming industry extracts many billions of dollars of taxpayer money, and those organizations which benefit from it overwhelmingly agree that they want to keep receiving the money. http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ USHCN has subtracted an impressive 2.1 to 4.8 degrees from the actual thermometer readings taken during the 19th century. Starting in the record hot year of 1998, USHCN began adding more than a quarter of a degree to the … Continue reading →