Monthly Archives: July 2012

Unprecedented – yet normal, cyclical and expected Steve Cole Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0918 [email protected] July 24, 2012 Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt Even the area around Summit Station in central Greenland, which at 2 miles above sea level … Continue reading →

The Earth is warming and human activity is the primary cause. Climate disruptions put our food and water supply at risk, endanger our health, jeopardize our national security, and threaten other basic human needs. Some impacts—such as record high temperatures, … Continue reading →

Gossiping about the weather is possibly the oldest human topic of conversation. Most of the time this is a harmless activity, but humans occasionally go through periods of superstition where they blame the weather on angry gods, human misbehavior, or witches. We are … Continue reading →

If you want an idea of just how clueless James Hansen is about the 2011 heatwave, check out the graph below.  Maximum July temperatures in Iowa averaged more than ten degrees cooler in 2011 than they did in 1936.

Ninety-two percent of all USHCN Iowa July record daily maximums occurred prior to 1955. As the EPA reports, US heatwaves were much more severe during the 1930s. Check out this heatwave from May, 1934! If we had a May heatwave … Continue reading →

With Warming, Peril Underlies Road to Alaska By CORNELIA DEAN Published: July 24, 2012 WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory – In February 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the Army Corps of Engineers an assignment: Build a road from British Columbia across … Continue reading →

Twitter / billmckibben: Arctic sea ice has greates … Every month these geniuses report a record loss, and then at the end of the year we end up above 2007. This uses the famous McKitten-Masters equation -10  + -10 + … Continue reading →

The moron twins are at it again If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied … Continue reading →

If Aurora Cinemark wasn’t a gun-free zone, this joker would be in the morgue – and a lot of other people wouldn’t be. Then we wouldn’t have to see his ugly mug, or wait four years to watch him fry.

The distribution of seasonal mean temperature anomalies has shifted toward higher temperatures and the range of anomalies has increased. An important change is the emergence of a category of summertime extremely hot outliers, more than three standard deviations (?) warmer than climatology. This hot extreme, … Continue reading →