Daily Archives: May 17, 2011

He is concerned about the climate, and wants to save it by making $billions off windmill contracts. The head of Munich-based Siemens AG (SI)’s U.S. unit said he is unhappy that federal energy policymakers in Washington are no longer focusing … Continue reading →

The rest of his comments were the usual crap, but he squeezed out a little bit of truth. “what happens in Queensland or what happens in Russia or for that matter the floods in the Mississippi River right now, whether … Continue reading →

Less than a decade after the painfully dry year of 2002, the Upper Colorado River Basin is laden with snowpack that’s 160 percent of average. Total runoff this spring and summer will be huge, potentially swelling creeks and rivers to … Continue reading →

Global cooling will kill us all before the year 2000. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent … Continue reading →

A popular misconception of the global warming community is that low ice extent in September is a positive feedback, because the ice reflects less sunlight. This sounds convincing, until you realize that the Arctic receives very little sunlight in September, … Continue reading →

These webcam images make you want to cry for the polar bears. http://www.andreassen.gl/andreassen/webcam.htm http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/alfis/1/show.html http://www.arcticomm.net/webcam/arcticomm_webcam.jpg http://www.summitcamp.org/status/webcam/

Suppose you broke the Earth’s surface up into a grid of 100 km^2 squares. there would be more than 5 million squares. Now, suppose that the temperature record was 100 years long. On each square, on any given day, the … Continue reading →

If you think the climate is more severe now, you just weren’t paying attention in the past. 1970 http://news.google.com/newspapers 1972 http://news.google.com/newspapers 1973 http://news.google.com/newspapers 1974 http://news.google.com/newspapers/ 1974 http://www.april31974.com/images/outbreakmaplarge.jpg 1976 http://news.google.com/newspapers 1976 http://news.google.com/newspapers

There is no longer any serious debate among the world’s leading scientists, including our own, that our excessive burning of fossil fuels is warming the Earth and resulting in extreme, wildly fluctuating and increasingly unstable changes to the world’s climate: … Continue reading →

Warming will ‘wipe out billions’ Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet’s population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by … Continue reading →