Daily Archives: May 14, 2011

The ice was too thick The ice was too thin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1935_Labor_Day_hurricane_track.png The 1935 Labor Day hurricane made landfall in Florida with winds of 185 MPH. It was the only hurricane to hit the US with a barometric pressure lower than 900 mbar. It was one of only three category five … Continue reading →

Obama halted drilling last year, but with an election looming he has suddenly become concerned about the cost of fuel. The US will seek to expand domestic oil production in an attempt to reduce dependence on imported oil and bring … Continue reading →

Proper uninhabitable cold has been restored. No doubt she will come back, take a long hot shower to warm up, and then tell the press about the global warming devastation she saw there. Nuuk

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/ Where’s Waldo? There must be a missing ice cube somewhere in this picture.

Pink shows where GISS has no thermometer readings for April. They report precision  within 0.01 degrees.

The April GISS 1200 km smoothing map mapped on to a sphere. I wonder what physical mechanism Hansen would use to explain the huge gradient across the North Pole?

http://www.woodfortrees.org/ Over the past decade, GISS has continued to show an increase in global temperatures, while HadCRUT has decreased. They have been diverging at a rate of about 1C per century, which is pretty dramatic considering that they report 0.01C … Continue reading →

http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf The graph above plots the GISS trend since 1960, overlaid on Hansen’s 1988 predictions. The green circle is the GISS April anomaly of 0.55. “Scenario A assumes continued exponential trace gas growth, scenario B assumes a reduced linear linear … Continue reading →

Apparently not much. Both believed that it would take mass casualties of Americans to achieve their personal political goals. Both believed that global warming is destroying the planet. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/climate-disasters-global-warming-real.php