Daily Archives: May 14, 2011

By Andrew Freedman May 11, 2011 What Does Climate Change Have to Do With the Flooding? Climate change cannot be blamed for causing the flooding, but scientists have detected large-scale trends indicating that extreme precipitation events are becoming more likely … Continue reading →

Boulder Youths Sue Colorado For Global Warming 10-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, 11-year-old Haiden Inskeep and 18-year-old Cecelia Kluding-Rodriguez are joined by WildEarth Guardians, an environmental activist and protection organization of which Martinez is a member, to sue the state as a … Continue reading →

In 2002, Monbiot spread some of his left wing holiday cheer in a piece titled “Christmas Famine” 24 December 2002 Within as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed … Continue reading →

35 million years ago, Giant Sequoias grew in Colorado. This fossilized stump is almost 4 metres in diameter and was probably 90 metres tall. These trees are now only found in California. It kind of pisses me off that we … Continue reading →

CO2 must have been extremely high in 1927.

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/people/klaus.wolter/MEI/table.html The period from 1977-2000 was dominated by strong El Ninos. It also was a period of warming, surrounded by periods of flat or cooling, which purely coincidentally were ENSO negative. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1952 Being the good peer-reviewed climate scientists that we … Continue reading →

Peer review strikes again, as the west prepares for flooding from excess snowpack. AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY JANUARY 2005 DECLINING MOUNTAIN SNOWPACK IN WESTERN NORTH AMERICA* BY PHILIP W. MOTE, ALAN F. HAMLET, MARTYN P. CLARK, AND DENNIS P. LETTENMAIE only … Continue reading →

May 13, 2011 – five weeks away from the summer solstice. The Vikings named this place Greenland, because they were early global warming deniers who wanted to confuse people in the 21st century. There never was an MWP – as … Continue reading →

OSLO (Reuters) – Trees in the Arctic region may grow 500 km (300 miles) further north by 2100 as climate change greens the barren tundra and causes sweeping change to wildlife, a leading expert said. A quickening melt of snow, … Continue reading →

NEVADA   NORTHERN GREAT BASIN …………………….  4 of  4     224       142   SNAKE RIVER …………………………….  3 of  3     188       139   OWYHEE RIVER ……………………………  5 of  6     191       132   UPPER HUMBOLDT RIVER …………………….  5 of  5     257       147   … Continue reading →