Daily Archives: May 24, 2011

There isn’t a rat’s ass worth of difference between climate alarmists and other doomsday cults any more. LIKE most people, I’m an instinctive optimist. In any case, I see no margin in pessimism. If you concluded the world was irredeemably … Continue reading →

http://www.accuweather.com/us/ok/oklahoma-city/73101/watches-warnings.asp

Furthermore, denial is not the same as being skeptical, either, and Washington and Cook argue it is quite the opposite. Hence, the term “skeptics” for these deniers can be described as Orwellian “doublespeak”“newspeak”. Denial is apparently caused by our lizard … Continue reading →

U.S. SNOW COVER SHRINKING (YES, REALLY) In a sign of global warming, satellite maps show a sharp decline in late winter and early spring snow cover since the 1980s. Put another way, the snow cover is leaving earlier but is … Continue reading →

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/president_obama_has_no_idea_wh.html

throughout much of American history, we have made, I believe, better decisions than any other nation in the history of the world, because in our democracy, individuals were available to take part in a collective effort to find the best … Continue reading →

Texas drought has farmers on the ropes West Texas farmers and ranchers struggle to survive the worst drought in the region since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. May 22, 2011|By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times The wind in West … Continue reading →

WRF Water vapor forecast for this afternoon. There is a very tight gradient from central Texas to central Kansas which could lead to violent weather and tornadoes, like in Alabama a few weeks ago. Cold dry air from the west … Continue reading →

Nuuk, Greenland has averaged -1C so far in May, which should place it among the ten coldest Mays on record – going back to 1881. Earlier this month, Hillary and the Arctic Council were making daily press releases from Nuuk … Continue reading →

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday We conclude that most climate models mix heat too efficiently into the deep ocean and as a result underestimate the negative forcing by human-made aerosols. Aerosol climate forcing today is inferred to be -1.6 \pm 0.3 W/m2, implying substantial … Continue reading →