Monthly Archives: August 2011

Last December was the coldest on record in Ireland, as has been this summer. This proves conclusively that the earth is headed into an ice age. December 24, 2010 This has been the coldest start to winter for the last … Continue reading →

Last summer, Moscow was the proxy for Earth. This year it is Austin! The fact that it was 105 degrees in Austin [yesterday] makes it impossible to totally ignore the fact that something’s happening with the climate. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/

“When you start looking at longer-term trends, 50 or 60 years, there’s no escaping the loss of ice in the summer,” Kay says. Kay and her colleagues also ran computer simulations to answer a fundamental question: why did Arctic sea … Continue reading →

Your chances of being killed by a car are several orders of magnitude higher. http://www.norman.noaa.gov/

A few months ago they claimed that they didn’t know how many people died in tornadoes prior to 1950. This memory loss conveniently avoided the period when the vast majority of tornado deaths occurred, and allowed them to claim that … Continue reading →

But I thought they said that shells will dissolve at 500 ppm. Perhaps man-made CO2 is different, and creates more corrosive acids than natural CO2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2011/aug/11/lyme-regis-jurassic-fossil-coast

The highest gust was only 19 MPH. A completely useless month for generating electricity – at a time when they needed it the most. http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KATT/2011/7/11/MonthlyHistory.html  

The largest national footprint of D4 (“exceptional drought”) in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor occurred in July. In Texas “exceptional drought” covers more than 75 percent (201,436 sq mi) of the state. This area is larger than … Continue reading →

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsqZRE-9cJk]