Monthly Archives: October 2012

Antarctica could follow same path as Arctic sea ice melt In the rapidly warming Arctic, the Greenland ice sheet has been melting, leading to substantial net ice loss in recent years. The worry is that if global warming continues on … Continue reading →

The random cellphone and land line poll of 600 likely rural voters in nine battleground states Oct. 9-11 has Romney at 59 percent among the survey’s respondents. Obama’s support is now down to 37 percent among rural battleground voters, a … Continue reading →

Twitter / billmckibben: Record fire seasons in west … Forest fire counts have been plummeting since 2006, and are currently the lowest on record in the National Interagency Fire database. McKitten must be suffering balance problems. National Interagency Fire Center

All things are possible, if you have faith in CO2. As a scientist, I side with the data. Although, the study has to be kept in perspective, since the ice growth is not enough to cover the ice loss in … Continue reading →

Obama realized he had messed up pretty badly when his ambassador got killed by Al Qaeda, so he lied about it and blamed it on YouTube. Two weeks later he realized that no one was buying his lies, so he … Continue reading →

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” http://afp.google.com

Nigerian Observer Online Edition 1991 Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’ 2004 Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070403190001

Twitter / billmckibben: Current SW drought may be worst … The 1950s drought was much worse. Apparently that was more than 1,000 years ago. New Mexico, Palmer Modified Drought Index (PMDI), 24-Month Period Ending in August, 1897-2012 h/t to Marc Morano

This week marks seven years since the US was hit by a major hurricane, and it has been more than 20 years since the US was hit by a category five hurricane. Scientists celebrate the record calm by making up a new … Continue reading →

Antarctic sea ice area has averaged 80,000 Manhattans above normal, and has been above normal every day this year. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008 NSIDC experts say that this has little effect on the climate, which is why Australia has been experiencing record cold and snow.