Monthly Archives: April 2011

What a let down.

They promise a shutdown, but can they deliver? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Americans can find out which tiny percentage of the government they actually need.

Joe can stop his ranting now. Nature saves the planet.

Latitude suggested that I try this. The plot below shows Rutgers winter (Dec-Feb) snow cover vs. UAH global Dec-Feb temperatures. As you can see, there is no correlation. Snowy winters are just as likely during global warm winters and cold … Continue reading →

http://en.wikipedia.org/ The last one was Andrew in 1992. The other two were in 1935 and 1969. It has been 934 days since any hurricane hit the US – the longest hurricane-free period since before the Civil War.

Extensive northern hemisphere snow cover during the 197os was caused by record cold and global cooling, but now it is caused by record heat and global warming. Like when your broiler starts behaving like the deep freeze. http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/table_area.php?ui_set=1&ui_sort=0 So far … Continue reading →

Each new article about the Amazon drought brings another five inches of rain. This has been going on for months. http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec8.html

As Hansen always points out – El Nino is climate, but La Nina is just weather.

The “record melt” of 2007 was largely due to ice being compacted by the wind. The ice edge was being blown 30 miles a day during August. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCzvI72CzC8]

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