Daily Archives: August 1, 2012

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 Americans who win bronze will pay a $2 tax on the medal itself. But the bronze comes with a modest prize—$10,000 as an honorarium for devoting your entire life to being the third best athlete on the planet in your … Continue reading →

No Jason, the 1930s were much hotter. Searing heat in the Heartland: Oklahoma’s hottest day ever? By Jason Samenow Searing heat in the Heartland: Oklahoma’s hottest day ever? – Capital Weather Gang – The Washington Post And the answer is no. … Continue reading →

When scientists set out to find something, they almost always find it – even if it doesn’t exist. Times-Union – Google News Archive Search This was barely 90 years after Percival Lowell mapped out the canals, farms and forests of … Continue reading →

Our sea level friends tripled the rate of historical sea level rise over the last twenty years, without any data indicating that anything had changed. The 1990 IPCC report reported a range of 1.0 to 1.7 mm per year and … Continue reading →

The 1990 IPCC report included the graph below, which showed that Greenland warmed 2C from 1920 to 1935, and then cooled for the next fifty years back to the level of the 1920s. CO2 rose much faster during the fifty year cooling … Continue reading →

In 1988, Hansen forecast that parts of Manhattan would be underwater by now, and that crime would greatly increase due to global warming. He got the second part right. Fraud, data tampering and forgery are the new normal in global warming research.

Field: “As the US copes with the aftermath of last year’s record-breaking series of 14 billion-dollar climate-related disasters and this year’s massive wildfires and storms, it is critical to understand that the link between climate change and the kinds of … Continue reading →

Dems are busy today on Capitol Hill claiming that forest fires in Colorado prove climate change. Just a couple minor problems with that theory. There are no fires of any significance burning in Colorado, and nationally there has only been … Continue reading →

A number of key climate related satellites went into service in 1979, which coincidentally was the coldest year since the 1920s in the US (according to USHCN raw data)  and also the year of peak Arctic ice. This has caused … Continue reading →