Daily Archives: July 21, 2011

Reader Mkjon writes : Since I am 94 years old, I remember the 1930’s real unwell. In  addition to the heat we were living through the longest drought of the century, as well as being in the Great Depression. I … Continue reading →

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110118_MilankovicPaper.pdf Looks like the West Side Highway is now safe until 2085. Hansen granted it a reprieve. (He is good and merciful to our climate.)

Lake Powell will hit 3660 feet elevation this weekend. It has been rising at a rate of 60,000 mm/year.

Current sea level rise is after all not exaggerated, in fact the opposite case is more plausible. Observational data and changing conditions in such places as Greenland suggest if there’s a real problem here it’s underestimation of future sea level … Continue reading →

May 4, 2011 Sea levels will rise more dramatically than was predicted nearly four years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a new study of arctic conditions concludes. The Arctic ice study by the International Arctic Monitoring and … Continue reading →

ONE of Australia’s foremost experts on the relationship between climate change and sea levels has written a peer-reviewed paper concluding that rises in sea levels are “decelerating”. The analysis, by NSW principal coastal specialist Phil Watson, calls into question one … Continue reading →

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-08-c1.pdf Summer of 1936 was incredibly hot. Twelve degrees above normal in the high plains.

We used to have soccer practice at ASU in 105-110 heat – every afternoon.  

During the third week of July, 1936 – 12,000 people died from the heat. In 2011, 22 people died from the heat. The red bar for 2011 is too small to appear on a graph of this size. The current … Continue reading →

Parts of Chilean Patagonia covered by nine feet of snow; 6.500 feared isolated President Sebastián Piñera declared much of La Araucania in Chilean Patagonia, disaster areas on Wednesday, as four days of non-stop snowfall have isolated the region’s predominantly rural … Continue reading →